US website to track Nazi looted art

THE United States has taken a lead in art restitution by setting up a website to track Nazi-looted art. The Nazi-Era Provenance Internet Portal which has just gone online, will provide a database of museums collections – 70 have signed up so far – for checks on art that disappeared in Europe between 1933 and 1945.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim in New York, the Getty in Los Angeles and Chicago’…

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