At least 86 works by Pablo Picasso fell into the hands of the Nazis’ plundering units headed by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR) and were taken […]
Picasso: Creator and DestroyerSource: The Atlantic Fleeing the German advance on Paris in May 1940, Picasso flees the French capital together with hundreds of thousands of […]
by Marc Masurovsky As in the case of Pablo Picasso and many other eminent artists plying their creative streak in France, Henri Matisse chose to remain […]
Palais des Études, École Nationale Superieur des Beaux-Arts, ParisSource: Wikipedia Il faut se poser la question, même s’il est injuste de la poser : enfin de […]
Landesmuseum, MainzSource: Wikipedia Like many museums in Germany, the Landesmuseum in Mainz holds in its collection hundreds of items that once belonged to German-born and foreign-born […]
São Paulo, Brazil, boasts one of the finest art museums in the Southern Hemisphere, something to make its friends in Buenos Aires squirm. MASP – Museu de […]
by Marc Masurovsky (Note: Absent are works of art that post-date 1945: Alberto Giacometti, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, and the ubiquitous Pablo Picasso.) 5. Dora Maar […]
by Marc Masurovsky Most cultural institutions around the world are controlled or owned by governments. In political terms, the State oversees and controls culture, sometimes intimately, […]