The story reads like a tabloid saga, admits art historian Robert Hobbs, guest curator of the Lee Krasner Retrospective now at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
The athletic competitions are only a minor part of the exhibit, which puts the \”Nazi Olympics\” into the context of its time, both the immediate past and the horrifying future.
Michael Cullen wants people to search their attics and basements for documents, photos, paintings, you name it — photocopies are acceptable. If something is valuable, like a painting, the museum will consider purchasing it.
Henry Bondi, a Princeton, N.J., biochemical engineer, has spent much of his adult life chasing after a painting that he says Nazis stole from his aunt. Now, at 76, he\’s finally getting close.
Hannah Hoch\’s first major U.S. retrospective has arrived at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; it\’s been a long time coming.\n
Many modern forms of anti-Semitism, not least the Dreyfus Affair, can be seen as a reaction to the emancipation of the Jews in Western and Central Europe following the French Revolution, according to Dr. Michael Berenbaum.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center is fully committed to building a $50 million museum in Jerusalem — despite skepticism expressed by some Holocaust scholars.\n
The most astonishing account in Hector Feliciano\’s always-astonishing new nonfiction book, \”The Lost Museum\” (Basic Books), follows Adolf Hitler on a visit to the Paris Opera House on June 28, 1940, the Führer\’s first, and only, visit to the city.
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