‘At best,’ Chicago museum showed ‘willful blindness’ buying Nazi-looted art – The Manhattan district attorney’s office accuses the Art Institute of Chicago of insufficient provenance research when it bought Egon Schiele’s “Russian War Prisoner.” | JNS.org

(March 1, 2024 / JNS) – The Art Institute of Chicago was at best intentionally indifferent to the antisemitic circumstances surrounding an Austrian expressionist drawing that it purchased, a 160-page complaint filed by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office alleges.