Crime & Theft
How’s A Critic Supposed To Review Work By Compromised Artists?
How do we write about the work these figures create? To what degree do we acknowledge the actions of the creator, and what bearing should that have on how we consume, experience, dissect, and analyze art? The questions cut across all disciplines.
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‘Antique smuggler’ booked by DRI: US Homeland Security starts investigation
(India; United States of America)
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The Indian Express, 2nd Nov 2017.
Looking into Vijay Nanda’s emails: this should be interesting.
Works hoarded by son of Nazi art dealer to go on public display
(Switzerland; Germany)
The Guardian, 27th Oct 2017.
Kunstmuseum Bern and the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn are simultaneously showing the Gurlitt pieces.
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Remains stolen from burial caves return to Hawaii after more than a century
(United States of America; Germany)
KHON, 26th Oct 2017.
"The remains were stolen between 1896 and 1902 and sold directly to the Museum of Ethnology in Dresden."
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