Major Auction Houses Are Selling Stolen Manuscripts, Qatari Research Group Claims
Several manuscripts, taken between 2016 and 2019, were recently for sale at major international auction houses.
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Alleged Picasso ‘Worth Millions of Dollars’ Found During Drug Raid in Iraq
The work was in the possession of three individuals who have been for arrested for narcotics trading.
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Missing Picasso May Have Been Spotted in Imelda Marcos’s Home in the Philippines
The artwork—or a possible replica of it—may be hanging over a sofa.
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The $69 M. Beeple Bonanza, Caligula Mosaic Comes Home, and More: Morning Links from March 12, 2021
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Critical Eye: Kassel: Dislocated Loot
Looted art is everywhere in the Kassel portion of Documenta 14, posited as something like the uncanny double of today’s globe-trotting artworks.
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Charles Goldstein, Counsel Who Helped Recover $160 M. in Stolen Art, Dies at 78
Charles Goldstein, known as one of the greatest legal minds working in New York real estate and, later, for the recovery of artwork looted from Holocaust victims, died on July 30 in Manhattan…
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The Mauerbach Scandal
An exhibition in Vienna brings to light new evidence of Austria's reluctance to return art looted by the Nazis.
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The Mysterious Journey of an Erotic Masterpiece
Femme nue couchée, one of several Courbets owned by the Hungarian Jewish collector Baron Ferenc Hatvany, disappeared after World War II from a Budapest bank vault. The painting resurfaced 50 years…
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Top Ten ARTnews Stories: Making a Difference
It began with Andrew Decker's article on Austria's halfhearted attempts to return thousands of artworks stolen from Holocaust victims. Our coverage has influenced cultural policy and helped make war…
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