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Art Crawl

(Above) Joe Lombardo paints the scene during the German Village Art Crawl on Macon Alley between Frankfort and Whittier streets on Saturday, July 24. Lombardo was one of the artists performing live demonstrations at the event, which is sponsored by the German Village Business Community.

Mystery of family’s art unraveled: Stolen during World War II

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A cache of art stolen at the end of World War II is finally back where it belongs, after a 65-year odyssey featuring a transatlantic smuggling, a secret hideaway and — in the end — a little browsing on the Internet. It was last possessed by Beth Ann McFadden of Cornelius, N.C., who, while growing up in New Jersey, heard about the war booty her great uncle kept hidden behind a ...

Don't miss: 1st Thursday

WHAT : The focus for this month's art party at the Orlando Museum of Art may be the widest yet. "Not Neutral: Celebrating the Swiss Formula 'Unity, Not Uniformity'" is the theme, giving the artists of 1st Thursday the whole of Swiss culture to draw their inspiration from. With a country whose legacy spans everything from the Dada movement to complicated pocketknives, the offerings are bound to ...

Painting stolen by Nazi now on display in New York

A demur redhead in a modest black dress is making a brief appearance in New York, before finally returning home to Austria.

SFist Tonight

Isabelle Sorrell ART: Meridian Gallery hosts an opening reception for Latitudes|Longitudes by Isabelle Sorell, featuring a letterpress artist book in response to poems by Bill Berkson, along with selected drawings and paintings, and Text 'o-&-Figura , an international travelling exhibition curated by Rolando Castellon, featuring current graphic work of 90 artists from various countries. 6 to 9 p ...

Hungary Is Sued Over Large Holocaust Art Claim

In what experts call the world’s largest unresolved Holocaust art claim, the heirs of a banker have demanded that Hungary return art that they say is theirs.

Family sues for the return of Nazi loot

FEARING they were to be killed by the Nazis, the Herzog family scrambled to hide one of the world's finest art collections in a factory basement.

Tumarkin is not the only one missing from the list

An exhibition to open in Berlin, "The New Hebrew. One Hundred Years of Art in Israel," shows that choosing participants was no easy matter.

The Rebirth of Prague's Vltava River

When Petr Vojak was deciding where to settle down with his family last year, his aim was clear. He wanted somewhere peaceful yet central. Eventually, they decided on a new flat in a northern district along the Vltava river, which flows through Prague.

Is gold dealer using fear to steer buyers into more expensive purchases?

Southern California authorities are probing the sales tactics of Santa Monica's Goldline International, a key sponsor of Fox News host Glenn Beck. Standing amid the shiny bling and baubles in his shop in Los Angeles' jewelry district, David Malek said he knows perfectly well why some people have been pouring money into gold. In a word, fear.

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