Russia’s U.S. Art Loans Prohibition Thwarts Planned Museum Shows | FrontRow

Last summer a U.S. District Court ruled that Russia must return a collection of religious books and manuscripts to Chabad, a Jewish ministry based in New York City. Russia refused, and the ruling has prompted the country to cease all loans of art work in Russia to U.S. museums over fears that the United States will seize Russian loans as collateral for the Chabad works.That action has placed a number of planned exhibitions in limbo, including a planned show on Islamic art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. It also left a Metropolitan Museum of Art show four Cezanne’s short.