Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Althea Drysdale’s scathing decision against the art Institute came as the establishment has been fighting to keep a drawing by expressionist Egon Schiele titled ...

“We are disappointed with the ruling,” a museum spokesperson told me in an email. “There is significant evidence that demonstrates this work was not looted and previous courts have found ...

On 23 April, New York Supreme Court Judge Althea Drysdale delivered a 79-page ruling, declaring Schiele’s 1916 Russian War Prisoner “stolen property for the last 86 years”—ever since the Nazis seized ...

In her ruling, New York Supreme Court Judge Althea Drysdale agreed with New York officials that the work had been stolen from Grünbaum by the Nazis, adding that the museum's own provenance inquir ...

New York Supreme Court Judge Althea Drysdale’s ruling runs 79 pages, and it took her 25 minutes to read her order in court, according to Graham Bowley and Tom Mashberg in The New York Times.

New York Supreme Court Judge Althea Drysdale determined that the “Russian War Prisoner” watercolor had been stolen by Nazis from Jewish cabaret star Fritz Grünbaum before the start of World ...

Mr. Grünbaum’s heirs have spent years working to reclaim them. In her ruling, New York Supreme Court Judge Althea Drysdale said she agreed that the work had been stolen from Mr. Grünbaum by ...

Judge Althea Drysdale ordered Measures to turn over his passport before releasing him, as the charges were not bail-eligible. “As much as you hail from California, you must be here on any day ...