BUDAPEST (AP).- A tug-of-war in the United States over who owns a huge art trove seized by Hungary’s Nazi henchmen is the most prominent example of disputed restitution policies in formerly communist eastern Europe — but by no means the only one. …
German Artist Gunter Demnig Revives Names of Holocaust Victims
BERLIN (AP).- Artist Gunter Demnig carefully pried a cobblestone out of the sidewalk on Friedrichstrasse in downtown Berlin and replaced it with a shiny square brass plaque. “Davisco Asriel lived here,” the inscription read. “Born in 1882. Deported 25….
Jewish Museum Charts Inter-Faith Dialogue through Rare Manuscripts
LONDON.- The exhibition will bring together a collection of 24 rare manuscripts, many exquisitely illuminated, including three from the Vatican Library, eight from the British Library, three from Lambeth Palace Library and eleven from the Bodleian Libr…
‘ WARHOL’S JEWS: TEN PORTRAITS RECONSIDERED ‘ Opens At The JEWISH MUSEUM
New York, NY – Warhol’s Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered will be on view at The Jewish Museum on view from March 16 through August 3, 2008. When it premiered in 1980, Andy Warhol’s Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century wa…