A slightly different approach this morning. This story raises all sorts of questions about property and the state.
The painting, looted by Nazis from a wealthy Jewish family in 1933, is recovered by the heirs.
There's a lot to unwrap here, my gift to you this morning!
If you visit the Jüdisches Museum Berlin, which I highly recommend, look at the plaque on the receptionist's chair. What have you given to holocaust awareness?
No one knows what I've given to holocaust awareness, and I'd like to keep it that way, thank you.
Well I have lived the final scene of Schindler's List. I have stared at an office chair and a small pot of succulents and cried while yelling "I could have done more".
Not knocking you. The story raises many big issues, and I'm not even a very good thinker. I'm just an artist, and I look for patterns. The really interesting thing here, to me, is how property comes to stand for human value, the value of human lives and labor. How states enforce the rules of property. How fluid those rules are, morally. There's an awful lot going on outside the moral purpose you espouse, it ain't no black and white thing. Just my opinion.
Value is a tricky thing to establish. What the article doesn't mention is that we actually had 300 valuable family heirlooms returned to us. This one painting for example was valued at $3.8m. We had intended to auction each artefact off individually but did not understand ebay and sold them all as a batch for $38. There was supposed to be a period and you have to type the zeroes.
lmao really? I guess this is a troll, but why wouldn't you just not ship the painting?
While we had hoped to donate a significant sum to holocaust awareness and potentially open up another wing to the Jüdisches Museum Berlin or even second memorial, the error was my fault and I did not want a low rating on ebay because I had hoped to buy kratom with part of the money.
😂 good bit
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