Looted Art 
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SOURCE: New York Times
5/9/2023
Met to Scour Collections to Identify Looted Art
"The museum’s stature and the scope of its effort, disclosed in a letter to the museum staff, is likely to affect how other institutions grapple with the increasing pressure to return ancient items that bear evidence of having been looted."
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SOURCE: Seattle Times
9/16/2022
New York Museums to Disclose Provenance of Pieces Looted by Nazis
The Metropolitan Museum has currently identified 53 works as seized or sold under duress by Nazis. It is unclear how many more it will identify in response to a new state law requiring the display of those pieces to disclose the conditions of acquisition.
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SOURCE: Times of Israel
US Holocaust Survivor Who Spent Decades Fighting For Family’s Looted Art Dies
Family of biochemist and tabletop designer Martha Nierenberg, 96, says they’ll continue legal battle for art collection, stolen by the Nazis and still held by Hungary.
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SOURCE: Bloomberg
11-20-14
Swiss Museum to Announce Decision on Nazi-Looted Art Next Week
The chance discovery of more than 1,400 modernist works in a 2012 raid by tax authorities at Gurlitt’s apartment in Munich unearthed paintings, sketches and prints long given up as lost or destroyed under Adolf Hitler’s rule.
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