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Critic and journalist David D’Arcy offers an introduction and Q&A to this new documentary that traces the tangled legal and ethical battle over Egon Schiele's famous painting, which was stolen from its Jewish owners by the Nazis and resurfaced decades later on loan to New York's Museum of Modern Art.
Guest Biography
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David D'Arcy writes and broadcasts on the cultural scene. He is a correspondent for The Art Newspaper. He is a critic for Screen International and BBC Radio, and writes about film for many publications — including the San Francisco Chronicle and The National (Abu Dhabi) — and for artinfo.com (on his blog Outtakes). He covered the arts for 21 years for National Public Radio, until the Museum of Modern Art complained to NPR about his reporting on its role in the Portrait of Wally scandal, involving a Nazi-looted painting on view at MoMA.
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- Portrait of Wally
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Stolen from its Jewish owner when the Nazis invaded Austria in 1938, Egon Schiele's painting Portrait of Wally later resurfaced at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1997 — which sparked a thirteen-year legal battle with the owner's heirs and brought the charged issue of Holocaust property crimes into the public sphere. This new documentary offers a fascinating account of the tangled legal and ethical dispute over Schiele’s famous work.
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