{"id":528,"date":"2013-06-30T19:17:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T19:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/06\/museums-faulted-on-restitution-of-nazi-looted-art.html"},"modified":"2014-07-29T07:33:18","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T12:33:18","slug":"museums-faulted-on-restitution-of-nazi-looted-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/06\/museums-faulted-on-restitution-of-nazi-looted-art.html","title":{"rendered":"Museums Faulted on Restitution of Nazi-Looted Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/433\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-IY_GNTamCZc\/UdC6PFiA1VI\/AAAAAAAAC5M\/h9liTX00NZw\/s624\/Nazi+art.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/433\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-IY_GNTamCZc\/UdC6PFiA1VI\/AAAAAAAAC5M\/h9liTX00NZw\/s400\/Nazi+art.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Despite the fact that the United States and 44 other nations signed a pledge in 1998 to return Nazi art to rightful heirs, some museums are backtracking on that pledge,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/07\/01\/arts\/design\/museums-faulted-on-efforts-to-return-art-looted-by-nazis.html?partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> according to the New York Times.<\/a>\u00a0In some cases, museums argue that the statute of limitations has passed. \u00a0In other cases, museums try to beat claimants to the courthouse and try to get themselves declared as the rightful owner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt stake,\u201d notes the New York Times, \u201cin this emotional debate are the fate of valuable works of art, the reputations of elite cultural institutions and the legal issue of whether the American judicial system is capable of addressing restitution claims.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Times story also <a href=\"http:\/\/nyti.ms\/14jZGOm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">includes a short video<\/a> that offers some good background.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the fact that the United States and 44 other nations signed a pledge in 1998 to return Nazi art to rightful heirs, some museums are backtracking on that pledge, according to the New York Times.\u00a0In some cases, museums argue that the statute of limitations has passed. \u00a0In other cases, museums try to beat claimants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1838,"featured_media":4712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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