Buddy Duress, a small-time heroin dealer living on the streets of the Upper West Side who became a sensation in the New York film scene as an actor and muse for the movies “Heaven Knows What” and “Good Time,” which launched the careers of the filmmakers Josh and Benny Safdie,
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What Constitutes Art Sales Under Duress? A Dispute Reignites the Question.
In 1938, the Jewish department-store magnate Max Emden, who left Germany before the Nazis took power, sold three city views by the 18th-century painter Bernardo Bellotto to an art buyer for Hitler. The works, which were with Emden in Switzerland, were destined for the “Führermuseum” that Hitler planned for Linz,