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By Terry W. Hartle Correspondent Books about efforts to retrieve family treasure stolen during the Holocaust follow a familiar arc. A descendant embarks on a long and frustrating journey to regain the heirloom and eventually, against long odds, succeeds. “The Lady in Gold” by Anne-Marie O’Connor – the story of Maria Altmann’s efforts to recover Gustav Klimt’s portrait of her ancestor, Adele Bloch-Bauer – is a perfect example.  But as Menachem Kaiser reminds us in “Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure,” these stories do...

Translated by Michael Biggins Katja Perat’s novel is a serio-comical fictional romp through the Habsburg Empire of the fin de siècle, beginning in 1874 Lemberg (present day Lviv/Lvov in Ukraine), continuing to Vienna, and ending in the Habsburg Adriatic seaport of Trieste in 1912.  Along her way, the protagonist, the daughter of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch encounters luminaries of the Empire’s cultural elite, including Gustav Klimt and his models Adele Bloch-Bauer and Emilie Flöge, Gustav and Alma Mahler, Sigmund Freud, Theodor Herzl, the Princess von Thurn und Taxis, Rainer Maria Rilke ...

Photo Credit: Official White House Photo by D. Myles Cullen Supreme Court Associate Justices Brett M. Kavanaugh, Neil M. Gorsuch, and Elena Kagan, and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., February 4, 2020. The US Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled unanimously against the heirs of Jewish art dealers Sammy Rosenberg, Isaak Rosenbaum, Julius Falk Goldschmidt, and Zacharias Hackenbroch from Frankfurt, who sought to sue Germany in US courts to retrieve the Guelph Treasure, worth about $260 million, which they say the dealers were forced to sell to the Nazis for half their value. In 1929, a consortium ...

autoevolution 3 Feb 2021, 14:09 UTC · by 4 photos 2021 finds us in the middle of the race to Mars, and yet those of us who remain here on Earth haven't been able to enjoy the benefits of supersonic air travel since 2003, when the Concorde was retired. And, as we wait for the Mach X commute to return this decade (names like Aerion and Virgin Galactic aim to be on the radar), we can always turn to art for an imaginary journey of the sort, all with the help of a rendering. 60,000 feet or 18,288 meters. This was the cruising altitude of the British–French turbojet-powered supersonic air...

Friday, 29 Jan 2021 08:08 AM MYT A worker at Sotheby's Auctions poses with Sandro Botticelli's ‘Young Man Holding a Roundel’ during a preview where it is expected to fetch in excess of US$80 million in Manhattan January 22, 2021. — Reuters pic Subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates on news you need to know. NEW YORK, Jan 29 — A portrait by Italian renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli sold for US$92 million (RM372 million) at an online Sotheby’s auction yesterday, smashing the record price for the artist. “Young Man Holding a Roundel,” believed to have been pai...