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TOI’s Rossella Tercatin and Jessica Steinberg, superimposed over Andy Warhol’s Mao Zedong painting series at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art on display in Tehran, Iran, Oct. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
April 2, 2026, 1:27 pm
Daily Briefing April 2: Picassos and other veiled masterpieces in Iran
Archaeology and religions reporter Rossella Tercatin reports on art collection amassed by Queen Farah Pahlavi and a Passover Haggadah that examines influence of Egyptian culture
By Jessica Steinberg and Rossella Tercatin
An Iranian woman passes by Georges Rouault painting "Trio-Cirque" (1928) displayed at the Modern Art Movement exhibition at Tehran's Museum of Contemporary Art, September 1, 2005. (BEHROUZ MEHRI / AFP)
March 28, 2026, 8:30 am
One of the most inaccessible art collections in the world awaits liberation in Tehran
The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art was founded before the Islamic Revolution. Gems from its $3 billion collection have only rarely been seen since; now its fate is shrouded in the fog of war
By Rossella Tercatin
Visitors look at a painting by the French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec while visiting an exhibition titled Eye to Eye which showcases over 120 works by modern world artists as well as Iranian painters at Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, in Tehran, November 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
November 22, 2024, 6:09 pm
Young Iranians delighted as long-hidden vast Western art collection goes on display
Works by Monet, Warhol and others, worth billions, reemerge amid tensions with US, drawing crowds of headscarf-less women surprised such art can be seen without going abroad
By MEHDI FATTAHI and Jon Gambrell
A handout picture from the Youth Demand campaign group shows an activist pasting a photo of a Gazan mother and child over Picasso's artwork entitles 'Motherhood,' at the National Gallery in central London on October 9, 2024. (AFP Photo/Youth Demand - Handout)
October 9, 2024, 6:41 pm
UK activists deface Picasso painting with photo from Gaza to protest Israel arms sales
Two arrested after also pouring red paint on floor of UK National Gallery, shouting ‘Free Palestine’; no permanent damage to 1901 work ‘Motherhood’
By AFP
Nathalie Andrijasevic, an assistant curator at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, handles paintings which were moved to an underground safe room at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art on August 13, 2024. (Oren ZIV / AFP)
August 14, 2024, 4:06 am
Protect the Picasso: Fearing Iranian attack, Tel Aviv museum stashes priceless art
Facility is moving more valuable works from its collections to an underground safe room first utilized after October 7, leaving some galleries with blank walls
By Nir Kafri
Two stolen paintings, Picasso's 'Tête' (right) and Chagall's 'L’homme en prière' (left) found in Antwerp are seen in this undated handout image. (Handout / Police judiciaire fédérale Namur)
January 17, 2024, 4:49 am
Stolen in Tel Aviv, Picasso and Chagall works worth $900,000 found in Antwerp home
The paintings, Picasso’s ‘Tête’ and Chagall’s ‘L’homme en prière,’ were purloined from a collector in 2010, along with $680,000 worth of jewelry
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Detail from Pablo Picasso, “Woman Ironing,” 1904. (Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; via Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York)
January 30, 2023, 11:39 am
Jewish heirs of owner who fled Nazis sue Guggenheim Museum for $200 million Picasso
Lawsuit claims 1904 ‘Woman Ironing,’ hanging at NY institution since 1978, was sold under duress in 1938; museum insists sale was a ‘fair transaction,’ says suit is without merit
By ToI Staff
Promo pic for Jimmy Carr Destroys Art ((Rob Parfitt/Channel 4)
October 14, 2022, 8:25 am
‘Utterly sick’: UK TV to potentially destroy artwork by Hitler on new reality show
Program will take pieces by ‘problematic’ figures and ask audience to vote on their fate; antisemitism watchdog, other critics, decry ‘desperate’ format
By Ash Obel and ToI Staff
A cubist female bust by the Spanish painter Picasso is displayed by police officers in Athens during a press conference on June 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
June 30, 2021, 9:17 am
Greek police recover stolen Picasso painting, then drop it
No visible damage done to 1939 piece gifted by artist to Greece in recognition of resistance to Nazis; authorities hail ‘special day’ in return of painting after daring 2012 heist
By AFP and ToI Staff
Sala Glass (center) with two cousins in Chrzanow c.1916. (Courtesy of Hadley Freeman)
May 4, 2020, 3:38 am
Mysterious keepsake box reveals shards of grandmother’s pre-WWII life
In ‘House of Glass,’ The Guardian’s Hadley Freeman writes a family memoir about her search to explain why her paternal grandmother survived, but didn’t thrive after the Holocaust
By Renee Ghert-Zand
This picture dated 3 February 1968 shows Spanish painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso. (AFP PHOTO)
April 8, 2020, 10:51 am
Nazi-looted Picasso valued at $10m up for sale by heirs of German-Jewish banker
Pastel drawing returned to family by National Gallery of Art in Washington; family say piece to be auctioned as it cannot be shared between 16 people
By Marcy Oster
The East Building of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, photographed from the West Building. (Wikimedia Commons)
April 2, 2020, 12:31 pm
National Gallery of Art to return Picasso to heirs of German-Jewish banker
Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy sold the pastel drawing ‘Head of a Woman,’ at a loss in 1934 because he feared the Nazis would confiscate his estate
By Marcy Oster
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