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...under which both sides had to return their illicit booty. In 1990 they made a bilateral agreement further binding them to return captured artworks. Since then the negotiations of the Russian-German restitution commission have gone on at a snail's pace. The Russians presented the Germans with a catalog of about 40,000 missing objects. The Germans came up with their own list, involving some 200,000 museum objects, 2 million books and three kilometers of archival material. The actual volume of German loot hidden in Russian storerooms is an enduring mystery, but from time to time a tantalizing...
...assume that not everything that has been kept out of sight is a masterpiece -- but a lot of things on both sides must be, since they were not chosen at random. How much could the financially strapped Hermitage reap from a royalty on the tickets, catalog sales, replicas and other spin-offs? One thing is certain: kept unseen, in the basements, such treasures profit no one and are a liability to both sides...
...have to be an all-out fan of Cy Twombly's -- though he certainly has them -- to welcome the show of his paintings and drawings at New York City's Museum of Modern Art. Curated by Kirk Varnedoe, it is a handsome affair with a cogent, detailed catalog introduction. Neither show nor catalog exactly inflates its subject, and yet one may not be quite convinced that Twombly, despite the past slights inflicted on his reputation in America, is the powerful artist of the first rank that moma would like...
...Harvard, while there are already strong student public service structures, there is little in the way of faculty involvement. And even the expansive course catalog lacks courses which offer students the chance to combine their studies and fieldwork...
...College makes it too easy on us. True, a few weeks before classes begin, we do receive a shrink-wrapped Courses of Instruction catalog...