Lost and Found: A Conversation with Karen Green
What I want for the reader is that exciting, disorienting feeling of finding a box of family secrets in Grandma's attic.
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World War II
Composite Realities
In some of von Wulffen's paintings, a crackled varnish applied to the surface splits like dried skin; the works want to look old. Some motifs may be traced back to sources like a late…
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Rose Wylie
Beneath their beguiling picture-book appearance, British painter Rose Wylie's works reveal her earnest and long-standing engagement with the craft of painting and its history. On her mostly…
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‘This Is a Genocide’: Art Historian Zainab Bahrani on ISIS’s Destruction of Cultural Heritage
Last year, news outlets began reporting that the militant group known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria had begun bombing and bulldozing cultural heritage sites and artifacts, some…
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Inside the Secret Market for Nazi-Looted Art
The German dealer who left 1,400 works to his son was part of a network of dealers and others in Munich who helped implement the Nazi looting program, conceal stolen works, and sell them after the…
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Justice Austrian Style?
An investigator into Austria's Nazi-era crimes faces a "completely absurd" indictment
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The Restitution Struggle: Malaise, Indifference, and Frustration
Decades after the effort began, hundreds of thousands of artworks and other objects looted from victims of the Holocaust have yet to be returned to the owners or their heirs
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Killed by Matisse in 1941, Courthion’s Interviews Are Resurrected
A book due out from the Getty Research Institute next month unearths nine conversations with Henri Matisse that have remained unseen for over 70 years. Chatting with Henri Matisse: The Lost 1941 Inter…
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MoMA’s Problematic Provenances
Behind a lawsuit brought against the Museum of Modern Art by the heirs of George Grosz lies a troubling history of acquiring works seized by the Nazis and sold to support the German war effort
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The German-Russian Stalemate
With diplomatic efforts unable to resolve the trophy-art dilemma, museum officials in both countries are looking for a way to break the deadlock.
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