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...Another victim of this revaluation of architectural values was to be the Washington Hotel on Curzon Street....
...an aristocrat fighting for the restitution of assets nationalised by the communist regime....
...Total artwork historians look back as far as ancient Greek theatre and the birth of democracy to find examples....
...“The established corpus of masterpieces has been known for at least 40 years and I do not believe there will be new major discoveries coming out of Africa,” he says....
...Despina Koutsoumba, head of the Association of Greek Archaeologists, claimed this week that the row over the thefts underlined the need for the restitution of artefacts to their country of origin....
...: restitution....
...“Lately, I’ve been introducing laser engraving on some small parts of my artworks, such as screws and various hardware,” he says....
...The 26-year-old software engineer belongs to the UST Restitution Group, an association of nearly 4,400 crypto investors trying to track down Kwon, who is wanted in South Korea on charges of financial fraud...
...Schorer acquired “Old Man” in 2021 for $288,000. “The authentication of the work continues, and support for the full attribution to Rembrandt is strong,” he says....
...” — but also a wealth of letters and photography by Hannon, who had a dark room in his home and was involved with the foundation of the Belgian Association of Photography....
...In recent decades, Germany has also paid direct compensation to some Polish war victims, notably survivors of the Holocaust....
...been unpicking the provenance of artworks and objects....
...For decades, Austrian society was dominated by the sense that, rather than welcoming the Germans after the Anschluss (annexation) in 1938, Austria was the first “victim” of Nazism....
...Each of the 30 pieces, holding 1.5 litres of extrait de parfum, comes with a signed and numbered certificate of authenticity – like an artwork....
...The association campaigns for redress for the victims’ descendants, who are some of the southern African nation’s most marginalised people....
...For Lili, the battle for restitution has dragged on for as long as the fraud itself, with little prospect of resolution. For months, she was unable to talk about the losses without bursting into tears....
...Finally, a brief mention for the first illustrated edition of A Perfect Spy, considered by many to be John le Carré’s masterpiece (Folio Society, £85)....
...“Israel will stand as a defensive wall protecting the memory of the Holocaust and the honour of Holocaust survivors and their property.”...
...In asking that question, Guston refused the role of victim and insisted that we all recognise our own capacity for inflicting pain....
...For Kiefer, whose parents and schoolteachers had told him almost nothing of the Holocaust, the poem was a shock and a revelation....
...front lines to rescue masterpieces from the pyre....
...victim of Stalinism....
...None of my siblings believe what we were taught. We’ve all grown up. Very few even go to church. Some of my sisters have been victims of abuse and assault....
...International Holocaust Remembrance Day Today marks the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German concentration camp Auschwitz....
...The trustee charged with trying to recover money for the victims sprayed the financial world with legal claims against those who profited from their Madoff association....
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