Milton Esterow

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | Carlie Porterfield |David D'Arcy |Milton Esterow

Tuesday, 18 March marks the 35th anniversary of the day thieves entered the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and seized 13 works of art. The robbery is believed to be not only the world’s largest art heist, but also the largest single instance of property theft by value. In the early hours of 18 March 1990, two men disguised as police officers entered the museum, handcuffed the two security guards on duty and took off more than an hour later with 13 works.

Dec 17, 2024 | nytimes.com | Milton Esterow

And restitution panels are not without their critics. Some claimants have been frustrated by instances in which panels in different countries have taken opposite positions in similar cases. One example of such a case involves the claims made by the heirs of Curt Glaser, an art collector and former head of Berlin's State Library, who was of Jewish descent. Glaser sold his collection at two auctions in Berlin in 1933 and fled Germany.

Mar 8, 2024 | airmail.news | Milton Esterow

Last May, a painting stolen by a Nazi soldier from the Lubomirski Palace during World War II was repatriated to Poland. The painting, attributed to Alessandro Turchi, a 17th-century Italian artist, was pulled from a Tokyo auction after it was spotted by a Polish official. Last October, the F.B.I.’s art-crime team handed a painting by Johann Franz Nepomuk Lauterer, an 18th-century Viennese artist, over to the German Consulate in Chicago.

Feb 10, 2024 | phillytrib.com | Milton Esterow

Since the Congregation Bonai Shalom in Boulder, Colorado, was founded in 1981, one of its several Torahs has been taken from the ark each Sabbath, and on other holy days, and read to members of the congregation. In August, another, particularly special, Torah arrived at the temple, one of some 1,400 scrolls whose survival during the Holocaust has inspired Jewish congregations worldwide.

Nov 6, 2023 | estadao.com.br | Milton Esterow |Tracy Sherlock

THE NEW YORK TIMES - O dia dele começou às seis da manhã, com uma ligação para Amsterdã de seu escritório em Vancouver, Colúmbia Britânica. Uma hora depois, ele deu uma palestra on-line para uma turma na Irlanda, imediatamente seguida por uma ligação com um cientista em Boston. Michael R. Hayden é um dos principais geneticistas do mundo, ganhador de muitos dos maiores prêmios da medicina e fundador de cinco empresas de biotecnologia.