Lately, the modern and contemporary art section of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art hasn’t been as quiet as usual. Faint music played at varying speeds can be heard. Partly vocal, partly instrumental, the music sounds vaguely African. The source of the sound is a small, darkened room equipped with megaphones and five video projectors…
(JTA) — At the opening-night celebration of the Boston Jewish Film Festival’s 25th birthday, festival volunteers handed out deli-made kugel for ticket holders to nosh while waiting on a line that extended back to the parking lot. Once inside the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, the celebration last week continued with a performance by a…
Just a handful of journalists made the journey from Tel Aviv to Haifa for the opening of the Hermann Struck Museum, a humble tribute to a once well-known print artist and esteemed teacher. Mostly forgotten in Germany, his country of origin, Hermann Struck emigrated to Haifa in 1922 and played a prominent role in the…
On the doorbell of the apartment in Munich’s bohemian Schwabing district is a name once distinguished for architecture and music but infamous since the Nazi era by association with the plundering of art works owned by Jews: Gurlitt. The discovery of hundreds of priceless paintings and drawings within has raised questions about how a man…
The United States has asked Germany to publish a list of 1,400 Nazi-looted works of art that were found in a Munich apartment last year during a German tax evasion probe, U.S. officials said on Thursday. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said U.S. diplomats had contacted the German federal government about the vast…
The German recluse who hoarded his late father’s trove of Nazi-looted art may be its legal owner but the Berlin government has the authority – and moral obligation, some argue – to return the art works to their original Jewish owners or their heirs. The status of the haul is ambiguous nearly 70 years after…
The Dutch state should return three precious paintings to the descendants of Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker, a commission on Holocaust-era stolen artworks ruled. In its findings on the Goudstikker claim, the Advisory Committee on the Assessment of Restitution Applications for Items of Cultural Value and the Second World War said on Tuesday that the…
A Jewish group accused Germany on Monday of moral complicity in concealment of stolen paintings after it emerged authorities failed for two years to report discovery of a trove of art seized by the Nazis, including works by Picasso and Matisse. Customs officials’ chance discovery of 1,500 artworks in a Munich flat owned by the…
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