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Woman in Gold: Altmann v. Republic of Austria and some documentation concerning the Bloch-Bauer collection

The story of Maria Altmann’s legal battle with the Austrian government over paintings that had been seized from her family by the Nazis is coming to the big screen this week in the film Woman in Gold, starring Helen Mirren as Altmann.  The story is well-known and compelling: the Nazis confiscated...

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Pop Culture Reference: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Theft

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft played an unexpected role in this past Monday’s episode of The Blacklist – the NBC show starring James Spader as a criminal mastermind who offers to help the FBI catch some of the world’s most nefarious and elusive bad guys (and ladies). Spader’s cha...

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