NEW YORK, NY.- Following a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) investigation, the United States has entered into a settlement agreement with the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio that provides for the retu…
Two Paintings Seized in NY Stolen by Nazis in Poland
NEW YORK (AP).- U.S. authorities say they’ve seized two paintings in New York that were stolen from the National Museum in Warsaw, Poland, by the Nazis during World War II. The paintings by 19th-century Polish artist Julian Falat were seized last Wedn…
Germany Announced It will Give $80 Million in the Next Year to Fix Auschwitz Memorial
WARSAW, POLAND (AP).- Germany pledged Wednesday to pay euro60 million ($80 million) over the next year into a fund for Auschwitz-Birkenau to preserve the barracks, gas chambers and other evidence of Nazi crimes at the former death camp, some of which a…
Germany Announced It will Give $80 Million in the Next Year to Fix Auschwitz Memorial
WARSAW, POLAND (AP).- Germany pledged Wednesday to pay euro60 million ($80 million) over the next year into a fund for Auschwitz-Birkenau to preserve the barracks, gas chambers and other evidence of Nazi crimes at the former death camp, some of which a…
Yoors Truly
Abstract floral imagery is featured in many of the tapestries of Jan Yoors, whose picaresque life and multi-media creations were the subject of a feature in the Summer 2010 issue of Modern magazine. And, appropriately, the work of Yoors—as well as that of his life partners Marianne Yoors and the late Annabert Yoors, who brought […]
Jewish Museum in Warsaw Now Half-Complete
WARSAW (AP).- Officials say construction of a major new Polish museum on the history of what was once Europe’s largest Jewish community is now half-finished. The Museum of the History of Polish Jews is a skeleton of concrete walls and white winding tub…
Berlin’s Alte Nationalgalerie Displays Eighteen Works Returned in the Past Ten Years
BERLIN (AP).- A painting of the Florence skyline that hung in Adolf Hitler’s Berlin apartment throughout World War II and was missing for decades went on show Thursday in an exhibition of works returned to the collection of a major German museum. The e…
A Journey Through British Art from World War II to the Late Sixties at Fundació Joan Miró
BARCELONA.- The Fundació Joan Miró presents Let Us Face the Future, a journey through British art from the end of the Second World War to the late sixties. The exhibition has been organized by the Fundació Joan Miró and the British Council and spon…
A Rare and Exceptional Example of the First Apple Computer Sells for $212,267 at Christie’s
LONDON.- A rare and exceptional example of the first Apple computer – the Apple 1 – sold today at Christie’s for £133,250 / $212,267 / €156,169. The first personal computer with a fully assembled motherboard, the Apple 1 heralded t…
Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum Opens "Pioneers of Flight Gallery"
WASHINGTON, DC.- The “Barron Hilton Pioneers of Flight Gallery” opens to the public Nov. 19 at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, replacing the original “Pioneers” gallery that opened in 1976. Updated with new research, it …