The return of the beloved Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) Art Show to the Park Avenue Armory on Manhattan’s Upper East Side last night (November 3) after nearly two years—the February 2020 version was one of the last art fairs to happen before the pandemic-induced lockdown—drew a spirited but not frenzied crowd that was packed with high-profile collectors, a sprinkling of celebreties and ...
The Manhattan District Attorney’s office said on Thursday that it had returned 248 objects to India. These items, collectively valued at $15 million, were uncovered after a decade of five different criminal investigations. Of the 248 items repatriated yesterday, 235 had been brought in to the country by Subhash Kapoor. Once a respected dealer of antiquities in New York, Kapoor is accused of leading ...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Update from Sunday, Sept. 19: The artwork that was reported as stolen from ArtPrize earlier this weekend has been found by the Grand Rapids Police Department (GRPD).GRPD officers found the artwork in good condition at a nearby house.The artist who made the entry, Kenn Vidro of Grandville, says the artwork will be re-installed Monday morning (Sept. 20).His entry is called ...
A Franz Marc painting that has been the subject of a years-long restitution case will be returned to the heirs of its former owner, the Jewish businessman and banker Kurt Grawi, who sold the work during World War II. The German city of Düsseldorf will restitute Marc’s 1913 painting Die Füchse (Foxes) to Grawi’s heirs, according to a report by the German publication Der Spiegel. The ...
A looted sculpture of a Hindu deity has been sent back to Nepal with the help of the Art Institute of Chicago. The work, known as a linga, is a representation of the Hindu deity Shiva with four faces. Also called a caturmukhalinga, the schist sculpture dates back to the 6th century. The linga had been in the hands of a private collector, and ...
A painting by Nicolas Poussin, looted from its Jewish owners in France by the Nazis during occupation, has been discovered in Italy. The work, titled Lot with His Two Daughters Serving Him a Drink, has since been returned to its owners, according to the Carabinieri, Italy’s national police force. The search for the missing work began again last year, when the heirs, a 98-year-old ...
By MO CRANKER on December 19, 2020. Susan and Stand Sakamoto get art returned by the Medicine Hat Police Service after it was missing for months.--SUBMITTED [email protected]@mocranker The year has brought on many struggles and hardships for just about everyone. Late in the summer, local artist Susan Sakamoto had a couple pieces of art stolen from her that held a lot of sentimental value. ...
Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York, Antoinette T. Bacon, speaks at a repatriation ceremony for the painting "Winter" Thursday, in Albany. The painting, discovered in the Arkell Museum in Canajoharie, was part of a cache of art seized by the Nazis from the Mosse family in Berlin in 1933. (The Associated Press) ALBANY — A painting ...
