51. There are only a handful of scholarly books on the subject, and few American museums have high-quality Chinese glass collections. 52. There are still many artworks on display in American museums that are claimed by Italy, Greece and Turkey. 53. Thirteen other American museums have contributed to it, along with private collectors, named and unnamed. 54. This relieved American museums of the increasingly impossible burden of insuring borrowed art, the costs of which skyrocketed over the years. 55. This case is the latest and most explosive example of an American museum caught off guard and in possession of objects stolen before or during World War II. 56. Those who look on the explosion of gift shops in American museums with suspicion and dismay had resisted any similar commercialization in Italy. 57. Today there is hardly an American museum that has not acquired something from Pierre Matisse. 58. Vance Jordan, a Madison Avenue dealer, was outbid when he tried to purchase a still life by Charles Caryl Coleman for an unidentified major American museum. 59. Who knows what other looted art lurk in the collections of American museums? 60. Zaha Hadid, the Iraqi-born London architect, will become the first woman to design an American museum. |