The New Yorker3h
The Resurrection of a Lost Yiddish Novel
At the end of the twentieth century, Chaim Grade preserved the memory of a Jewish tradition besieged by the forces of ...
Mysterious heist of famous portrait solved 70 years later — and it was all for curtains
The painting’s disappearance from its UK estate wasn’t noticed until six years later when a duchess saw it on display at a ...
The Street Journal4h
The mystery of Gustav Klimt’s portrait of an African prince
For the longest time, "Portrait of Prince William Nie Norte Dowuona," was thought to have been lost. Though Gustav Klimt portrayed the nobleman in 1897, the painting had not been seen since 1938. The ...