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Before and during World War II, Nazis confiscated thousands of pieces of art from Jewish families for a museum Hitler planned to open in Austria. The families were sent to concentration camps.
The French National Assembly's recent passage of a restitution law for Nazi-looted art sheds light on the country's complicated past with the subject.
The three-year partnership will have scholars digitize and photograph artworks and organize symposia to share research.
The First Art Newspaper on the Net Emmanuelle Polack with her research materials at the Louvre Museums Centre du Dominique-Vivant Denon in Paris, June 23, 2021. Polack is the face of the French museums efforts to return stolen works. But some discoveries have put her employer in an awkward situation. Joann Pai/The New York Times. by Elaine Sciolino (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- In a frenzied, four-day auction in the grand hall of the Savoy Hotel in Nice in June 1942, buyers bid on paintings, sculptures and drawings from the cabinet of a Parisian art lover. Among the 445 pieces for sale wer...
Your Monday Briefing Image The Piano Works in London was among the many nightclubs across England that celebrated the lifting of pandemic restrictions with parties that started at midnight.Credit...Alberto Pezzali/Associated Press England’s troubled reopening An average of almost 45,000 cases of the coronavirus per day were reported in the U.K. in the past week, an increase of 83 percent from the average two weeks ago. Deaths have risen by 141 percent, while England’s chief medical officer warned that hospitalizations were doubling every three weeks and could hit “scary numbers.” Desp...