top of page

    Press   

   Press  

The latest news about the Monuments Men and Women Foundation's work from all major international media outlets.

NYT 10.26.24.jpeg

Dallas author, philanthropist passes baton to new Monuments Men and Women program

August 18, 2022

Dallas Morning News

August 12, 2022 - A new generation of Monuments Men and Women, who restored artifacts stolen by Nazis in World War II, is taking its place in the military as the first class of curators, archaeologists and more was sworn in Friday.

NYT 10.26.24.jpeg

Beutekunst: Museum Ulm bekommt Berblinger-Statue aus den USA

July 29, 2022

SWR Aktuell

July 28, 2022 - Die US-Initiative "Monuments Men and Women Foundation" recherchiert seit zehn Jahren, um ursprüngliche Besitzer von Kunstwerken zu finden. Auch das Museum Ulm profitiert davon.

NYT 10.26.24.jpeg

Museum of Fine Arts Houston locked in legal battle over Bernardo Bellotto painting

July 20, 2022

KHOU*11

A fight over a piece of 18th-century art has landed the Museum of Fine Arts Houston in federal court. MFAH wants to hold onto the paintings. The people trying to take it are the grandsons of a German businessman who they say sold the art to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's dealer under duress. ...

NYT 10.26.24.jpeg

Playing cards offer $25,000 for information on the priceless lost art of World War II

July 20, 2022

EuroNews

Art history buffs, eagle-eyed collectors, antiquities experts and members of the public at large are being invited to join the global hunt for a treasure trove of artworks still missing since World War II, with cash rewards of up to $25,000 for useful information. The buy-in is a single deck of cards. ...

NYT 10.26.24.jpeg

Monuments Men group bets on playing cards to find lost art

July 20, 2022

AP News

March 23, 2022 - A group dedicated to finishing the work of World War II’s Monuments Men is betting on a deck of playing cards — and reward money — to help find missing works of art taken by the Nazis.. ...

NYT 10.26.24.jpeg

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Must End Its Head-in-the-Sand Approach to Justice When It Comes to Restitution

July 20, 2022

Artnet News

August 31, 2021 - The head of the Monuments Men Foundation on the pain-staking research into the real history behind a Bellotto painting at the MFAH. ..

NYT 10.26.24.jpeg

Restitution Experts Blast Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts for Refusing to Return a Painting Once Purchased for Hitler’s Museum

July 20, 2022

Artnet News

August 18, 2021 - The Monuments Men Foundation is squaring off against the MFAH in the court of public opinion ...

NYT 10.26.24.jpeg

What Constitutes Art Sales Under Duress? A Dispute Reignites the Question
The New York Times

July 20, 2022

The New York Times

August 17, 2021 - A fight over a landscape painting bought for Hitler is focused on the question of whether its sale was voluntary or forced by economic distress the Nazis helped create. ...

NYT 10.26.24.jpeg

Motoko Fujishiro Huthwaite, 92, Last of the ‘Monuments Women,’ Dies

July 20, 2022

The New York Times

May 8, 2020 - An American who was sent to Japan after Pearl Harbor, she was one of 345 people from 14 countries who helped preserve cultural treasures. ...

NYT 10.26.24.jpeg

Anna Bottinelli, un’italiana alla guida dei «Monuments Men»: i cacciatori delle opere trafugate dai nazisti

July 20, 2022

Corriere della Sera

November 28, 2019 - Fiorentina, 32 anni, un curriculum accademico di primo piano, andrà a dirigere la Fondazione, con sede a Dallas, resa celebre dal film di Clooney. «Entusiasta dell’incarico» ...

bottom of page