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Laurel Zuckerman, the great-grandniece of German-Jewish art collectors, is using errors in artwork provenance data to identify art that was either looted or sold under duress during the Nazi's third reich.
Museums in New York that exhibit artworks looted by Nazis during the Holocaust are now required to let the public know about that dark history through signs or placards put
Last month, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a law requiring museums in New York to display information about artwork that was stolen by Nazis.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Museums in New York that exhibit artworks looted by Nazis during the Holocaust are now required by law to let the public know about those dark chapters in their provenance through placards displayed with the stolen objects.
Museums in New York that exhibit artworks looted by Nazis during the Holocaust are now required to let the public know about that dark history through signs or placards put on display with the stolen objects. Experts estimate that at least 600,000 pieces of artwork were looted from Jewish people before and during World War II. Some of those objects ended up in the world's great museums. The new rule comes as many museums in the U.S. and Europe are reckoning with collections that also contain numerous objects looted from Asia, Africa and other places during centuries of colonialism.