An outspoken advocate of restoring Nazi loot to rightful owners, Ronald Lauder, the president of the Neue Galerie in New York, has called unrestituted artworks "perhaps the last prisoners of World War II." He is chairman of the Commission for Art Recovery, an organization formed in 1997 to encourage Nazi-loot restitution efforts by European governments. On that commission's … [Read more...] about Posting What You Preach: The Long Wait for the Neue Galerie and Lauder
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Are Museums Taboo on TV?
Last night's Cézanne in Provence on PBS was, in a word, splendid. The National Gallery's curator, Philip Conisbee, though uncredited in the show's publicity, was (after Cézanne's art) the chief attraction, radiating quiet authority as he used the artist's biography and arcadian surroundings to illuminate the art. The camerawork was also deft, dissolving from actual provençal … [Read more...] about Are Museums Taboo on TV?