Word: holocaustal
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...felt that Immortality would only know me as a helpmeet, just when I'd gained six pounds, Farce, as it will when your happy-quota shades off into urban gray, intervened: all pinks, oranges, reds." Thus comedy begets tragedy: just as Art Spiegelman could best explain his family's Holocaust tragedy in comic book form, Gurganus makes the ultimate tragedy of Plays Well With Others farcical...
...Chicago. In 1987, at the museum's behest and with the assistance of two of its curators, Searle purchased a Degas pastel known as Landscape with Smokestacks for $850,000. Now, 10 years later, the 71-year-old philanthropist faces a major lawsuit filed by the heirs of Holocaust victims who claim that the painting was stolen from their relatives by the Nazis. "My family was murdered, their possessions destroyed or stolen," says Simon Goodman, a Los Angeles businessman who, together with his brother and aunt, is suing Searle. "These works are all that is left of our heritage...
Unlike the millions of victims who perished in the Holocaust, the possessions they were forced to leave behind often survived the war. The search for lost gold and cash has recently focused on Swiss banks, but the quest for their art is broader, spreading throughout Europe and into the U.S. Experts estimate that there are scores, perhaps hundreds, of paintings, prints and lithographs stolen by the Nazis that are now in America's private collections and top museums. New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art owns two allegedly looted paintings, one claimed by the Belgian government, the other...
...France by a New York dealer who then sold it to Hollywood idol Errol Flynn for $48,000. "The paintings came to America because for more than 10 years during and after the war there was no place else to sell them," notes Willi Korte, a consultant on Holocaust losses to the Senate Banking Committee...
...G.O.P. House Banking Committee chairman James Leach and Democrats Charles Schumer and Nita Lowey of New York are considering legislation that would require more careful research into the provenance of a work at the time of its sale. In August the National Jewish Museum in Washington launched the Holocaust Art Restitution Project, or HARP, a database and research institute dedicated to cataloging lost collections both in Europe and the U.S. The World Jewish Congress has established a similar project, headed by Ronald Lauder, the chairman of the board for New York's Museum of Modern Art and chairman...