MoMA refuses to return Nazi pillaged Grosz works to the family of the painter.

As a $20.00 entrance fee charging museum, the MoMA takes advantage of a filing time limitation law and a Supreme Court not so comfortable in opposing State Law to deny the rightful proprietorship of some of George Grosz' paintings and a watercolor to his son and daughter. The works, identified as stolen by the painter in a letter, were so from a Jewish art dealer by Nazis or a Nazi sympathizer. The art dealer escaped Nazi Germany and died without any money in England in 1938, four years after Grosz had escaped the regime for the United States.

What this really means: We had to get U.S. citizens over to Europe to fight WWII somehow.

A great article in today's New York Times, in The Arts:

"Family's claim against MoMA hinges on dates" by Patricia Cohen.