NEW YORK (AP).- An art dealer who conned his star-studded clientele out of $120 million while indulging in such luxuries as a private baseball stadium was sentenced Tuesday to at least six years in prison for a fraud that swept up John McEnroe and the …
New York City Art Dealer Who Bilked Stars Gets Prison Time
NEW YORK (AP).- An art dealer who conned his star-studded clientele out of $120 million while indulging in such luxuries as a private baseball stadium was sentenced Tuesday to at least six years in prison for a fraud that swept up John McEnroe and the …
Eastern Europe Under Spotlight on Art Restitution Cases
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. …
Eastern Europe Under Spotlight on Art Restitution Cases
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. …
Lawsuit Says Over $100 Million Art Collection is Largest Holocaust Art Claim
WASHINGTON, DC.- Heirs to the Herzog Collection, the largest private art collection in Hungary prior to World War II, filed suit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia late yesterday to seek the return of artworks illegally he…
Mexican Authorities Recover 144 Original Pre-Columbian Pieces and Colonial Religious Works
MEXICO CITY.- The largest recovery of cultural property that had been illegally removed from churches and archaeological sites in the country, some for the last nine years, was unveiled today by officials of the National Institute of Anthropology and H…
Austrian Panel Recommends Restitution of Four Works of Art
VIENNA (AP).- A commission has recommended that four paintings
contained in a vast Vienna art collection should be returned because
they were
either seized by the Nazis or given up against the will of their former
Jewish
owners, Austria’s Cu…
Austrian Panel Recommends Restitution of Four Works of Art
VIENNA (AP).- A commission has recommended that four paintings contained in a vast Vienna art collection should be returned because they were either seized by the Nazis or given up against the will of their former Jewish owners, Austria’s Culture Minis…