CULTURAL PROPERTY DISPUTES ARE CHANGING THE BUSINESS OF ART

American courts are currently dealing with an unprecedented number of Holocaust reparation cases. And last year, the Justice Department successfully prosecuted a well-known New York dealer, Frederick Schultz, for conspiring to receive stolen Egyptian antiquities. As a result of these cases and similar cultural-property disputes, writes Carol Kino in Slate, some foreign collectors and museums have become more cautious about loaning work to museum shows—particularly those in America—and everyone has become vastly more diligent about conducting provenance research before buying.