Folks, breaking news from the art world:

Paintings found at the Austrian home of art collector Cornelius Gurlitt are even more significant than those found at his Munich flat, his lawyer says. Works by Renoir, Monet and other French impressionists are among the 60 or so pieces. — BBC News

This sounds like a pretty extraordinary find! He denies the works were looted but that doesn't sound probable. Jewish groups have called for a list of the works to be published, to assist identification of any works stolen or extorted from victims of Nazi persecution. If they were all looted during World War Two, what should happen to these paintings now?