LACMA EXHIBIT OPENS DESPITE LAWSUIT

Visitors at an art exhibit of European masterworks that triggered a lawsuit claiming it features works stolen from a Russian aristocrat didn’t let the controversy stop them from enjoying the show’s opening Sunday at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Jeremiah Marquez reports in the San Francisco Chronicle. A lawsuit filed earlier this month by French citizen Andre Marc Delocque-Fourcaud is seeking unspecified damages and removal of twenty-five works from the exhibit, “Old Masters, Impressionists, and Moderns: French Masterworks From the State Pushkin Museum, Moscow.”