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...chief claimants to the paintings are Henry Bondi, 76, a biochemical engineer in Princeton, N.J., and Rita Reif, a semiretired arts reporter for the New York Times. Wally had belonged to Bondi's aunt, a Viennese art dealer named Lea Bondi Jaray. Shortly before she fled to London in 1938, it was seized from her by a Nazi art dealer; eventually it passed through the hands of the Austrian Gallery and ended up in the collection of Dr. Rudolf Leopold, an ophthalmologist and self-styled art historian and restorer whose Schiele collection is institutionalized today as the Leopold Foundation. Dead...
Bondi and Reif had asked MOMA to keep the works in New York until the legal title to the pictures was clarified. "The museum," said Reif, "must make a moral determination on this." Exactly wrong: the museum's responsibility for moral issues stops with the works in its own collection. MOMA had a loan contract with the Leopold Foundation to return the works to Vienna as soon as the show closed. Such contracts are, of course, vital to the arrangement of institutional art loans. The free circulation of works of art among museums depends on them...
...York's Republican Senator Alfonse D'Amato, who is seeking support during this election year for his bill on property restitution to the heirs of the Holocaust, which passed the Senate in November and awaits House action. "It is of course political," said Schroder. He dismisses the Reif and Bondi claims as invalid, as the statute of limitations has expired, and vehemently defends Rudolf Leopold as a good-faith purchaser...
...deal may be more a question of corporate survival than personal ego. Although he maintains that emerging interactive television will not hurt his video business, analysts say the new technology poses a serious threat to Blockbuster's future. "Why else would Huizenga practically give away the store?" asks Jessica Reif, an analyst at Oppenheimer & Co. "He's giving up hard, cold cash for stock, and he's accepting a smaller post in a much bigger company." Says Jeffrey Logsdon, who follows the company for Seidler Amdec: "This is an exit strategy for Huizenga. He gets to unload a declining business...
...company's lines of businesses and divide the result by Paramount's 118 million outstanding shares. The major holdings include Paramount Pictures (Wayne's World 2, Addams Family Values), the company's Simon & Schuster (now Paramount Publishing) book-publishing arm and Madison Square Garden. Running those numbers, Jessica Reif, an analyst at Oppenheimer & Co., has put the value of Paramount as low as $60 a share. (The stock closed at 81 1/8 last week after the Delaware court ruling...