plundered art

by Marc Masurovsky The Actor, by Pablo Picasso. Saturday morning, 1 October 2016, brought news of a restitution claim filed by the ...

by Marc Masurovsky The British are not the only ones who display imperial superiority when it comes to “art” and “culture.” France pri...

by Marc Masurovsky Most cultural institutions around the world are controlled or owned by governments. In political terms, the State over...

by Marc Masurovsky 7. The Portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer II, 1912, by Gustav Klimt sold for 87 million dollars at Christie’s on November ...

by Marc Masurovsky (Note: Absent are works of art that post-date 1945: Alberto Giacometti, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, and the ubiquitous P...

São Paulo,  Brazil, boasts one of the finest art museums in the Southern Hemisphere, something to make its friends in Buenos Aires squir...

Landesmuseum, Mainz Source: Wikipedia Like many museums in Germany, the Landesmuseum in Mainz holds in its collection hundreds of it...

Palais des Études, École Nationale Superieur des Beaux-Arts, Paris Source: Wikipedia Il faut se poser la question, même s’il est injuste...

by Marc Masurovsky As in the case of Pablo Picasso and many other eminent artists plying their creative streak in France, Henri Matisse ch...

Picasso: Creator and Destroyer Source: The Atlantic Fleeing the German advance on Paris in May 1940, Picasso flees the French capital to...

At least 86 works by Pablo Picasso fell into the hands of the Nazis' plundering units headed by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (...