Night Café Battle Spotlights A Different Kind Of Looting
Van Gogh's "The Night Café," from 1888, "is posing an intricate question in international law. It's the subject of a suit and countersuit in U.S. courts between the descendant of a former owner and Yale University Art Gallery. ... So whose is it? That turns on the legitimacy of the Bolshevik government and its acts: a matter for international lawyers." Bloomberg 06/30/09

Posted June 29, 2009 05:22 PM