plundered art – Page 17

May 10, 2015

The day after…

by Marc Masurovsky We just commemorated the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, at least that portion of the war being fought on the […]

May 4, 2015

Monday diatribe: How to buy your way out of genocide accountability

by Marc Masurovsky Chances are that not a month goes by without us buying a product, investing in a transportation company (railroads and a select group […]

April 29, 2015

The Art Dealer (L’Antiquaire), by François Margolin

by Marc Masurovsky Why is it that history cannot be told factually on film? Is there something about the creative process that impels so-called artists in […]

April 23, 2015

Two Soutines for sale have little to say for themselves

by Marc Masurovsky Chaim Soutine As the leading auction houses in New York and London prepare for a bonanza in art sales in May 2015, Sotheby’s […]

April 23, 2015

Kafka meets Gurlitt

by Marc Masurovsky It’s fair to say that, ever since the revelation of the existence of the Cornelius Gurlitt collection in November 2013, the German federal […]

April 21, 2015

The illusion of numbers

by Marc Masurovsky Ever since WWII ended, there have been a flurry of numbers thrown about to give a sense of the scope of the destruction […]

April 18, 2015

Current state of affairs in the United States (not pretty) as of April 18, 2015

by Marc Masurovsky Legislative battles (past and on-going): The organized American museum community failed in its second attempt in as many years to get the Congress […]

April 14, 2015

A Woman in Gold, a film by Simon Curtis

by Marc Masurovsky Let’s be clear about one thing. I went to see this film not expecting much, in the wake of that disaster called “Monuments […]

April 11, 2015

Russian olive branch to Greece in the form of an icon

by Marc Masurovsky On April 9, 2015, Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, delivered the equivalent of an olive branch to Alexis Tsiras, newly-elected premier of Greece. […]