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...groused that the niqab created unnecessary barriers between people, and prevented communication because meaningful exchange "requires that both sides see each other's face". Prime Minister Tony Blair later added that it created a divisive "mark of separation." Wearing the hijab in schools is against the law in certain German states, and similar bans are on the books in some parts of Belgium. France's 2003 legislation banning headscarves in public schools has been hailed by supporters as a success of secularity over furtive proselytizing by fundamentalists. But it has further strained relations between the wider society and the nation...
...works in question include four paintings by the Viennese master Gustav Klimt, and a famous Berlin street scene by the German expressionist Ernest Ludwig Kirchner sold earlier this month for nearly $50 million. So-called "restituted" art - pieces either directly looted by Nazis, or ones their owners were forced to sell for below-market value to escape Hitler's regime - made up more than half of the record $491 million total sale at Christie's in New York earlier this month. Last summer, Klimt's most famous painting, the "Golden Adele," which had hung in a Vienna museum for more...
...directors and government officials meeting in Berlin this week to openly question the motives of those claiming the artworks, and to ask whether all such claims are even justified. Berlin officials say that in addition to the recent sales, there are least 700 additional works of art now in German museums whose origins are being questioned. That means many of those could potentially be lost to private collectors, as has already happened with some of the works handed over by the Germans and Austrians. In a statement, Germany's Culture Minster Bernd Neumann called for more "transparency" in the restitution...
...collection for 26 years; now a poster of the painting hangs in its place. Following a claim initiated by a U.S. lawyer and a decision by the Berlin state government, the Bruecke museum last August handed it over to a London woman, Anita Halpin, the granddaughter of a German shoe manufacturer. Von Pufendorf argues that the painting should never have been restituted. He said it was sold in Germany in 1933, at which point it fetched the highest price ever for a Kirchner. The family did not sell because of pressure from the Nazis, he said. The new round...
...Berlin crisis gathering, German officials said they would organize meetings in coming weeks between major Jewish organizations, Germany's leading museum directors and the heirs of families who lost the works of art, in order to restore the original spirit of fairness to the process. "Restitution must become more transparent, better coordinated and more irreproachable," said Neumann. "On the one hand, Germany has a special responsibility towards Jewish families and the rights of the owners have to be respected," a spokesman for the German Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters. "On the other, it is in the interest of the public...