Martha Lufkin

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | Martha Lufkin |David D'Arcy

The US Supreme Court has sent a Nazi-looted art claim over a painting at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid back to the lower federal appeals court to reconsider who owns the work, after a new California statute changed the governing law of the case. The new statute applies the property law of California to lawsuits over art stolen during the Holocaust.

2 months ago | theartnewspaper.com | Catherine Hickley |Chiara Zampetti Egidi |Martha Lufkin

The state of Bavaria, facing accusations that it has hidden research showing works in its collections were looted by the Nazis, has pledged to speed up its provenance research and publish the findings to increase transparency. The Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported last week that it had obtained an internal list of 200 works in the Bavarian State Painting Collections that were categorised in an accompanying traffic-light system as “red”, meaning they were “clearly looted”.

Jan 27, 2025 | theartnewspaper.com | Gareth Harris |Sebastian Smee |Martha Lufkin |Tom Seymour

The Polish-born artist Shelomo Selinger, 96, who spent time in a series of concentration camps during the Second World War, has donated two works to Unesco, marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in Poland.

Sep 19, 2024 | theartnewspaper.com | Martha Lufkin

A new California law is seeking to undo a recent decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which seemed to end a lawsuit brought by the heirs of Lilly Cassirer for restitution of a painting stolen from her by Nazis during the Holocaust.

Mar 19, 2024 | theartnewspaper.com | Martha Lufkin

The long court dispute over the use by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (AWF) of a copyrighted portrait has ended, with the foundation agreeing to pay the celebrity photographer Lynn Goldsmith for its unlicensed 2016 use of her portrait of the rock musician Prince.