Night Café Battle Spotlights A Different Kind Of Looting

Van Gogh’s “The Night Café,” from 1888, “is posing an intricate question in international law. It’s the subject of a suit and countersuit in U.S. courts between the descendant of a former owner and Yale University Art Gallery. … So whose is it? That turns on the legitimacy of the Bolshevik government and its acts: a matter for international lawyers.”