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TIME: This new book is a collection of essays, with statistical nuggets sprinkled throughout. How'd it come about?
The Israel Museum also offers a sampling of 1,200 unclaimed items that are currently held by Israelis until the true heirs of Holocaust victims are found. "Looking for Owners" was put together with help from French museum authorities, whose contributions to the Jerusalem show came from their collection of...
The Rothschild collections were so well known that many works were traced and returned after World War II. The Israel Museum exhibits one luminous Dutch canvas by Pieter de Hooch stolen in Paris from Edouard de Rothschild and seized by Hitler's boundlessly rapacious second in command, Hermann Goering. But...
Eva Pasco, who loosely based her novel Underlying Notes on her fragrance addiction, has boxes and trunks and specially made cabinets all over her house for her perfume collection. She calls herself a "fragrance floozy," but she's no eccentric kook. At least half a million people like her subscribe...
On the other hand, there's Rent Collection Courtyard. It's a replica of more than 100 life-size clay statues that were originally crafted in Shanghai in 1965 as pure Maoist agitprop, a tableau of peasants being abused by a greedy landlord and his thugs. In 1999 Cai had...