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Hans Haacke’s art work tracking the owners of Manet's white asperagus
In 1974, conceptual artist Hans Haacke created "Manet-PROJEKT '74," which traced the ownership history of Édouard Manet's "Bunch of Asparagus". This project revealed how the painting passed from a Jewish art collector to Hermann Josef Abs, a financial advisor to Hitler. Haacke's work aimed to highlight the political and social implications of art ownership. The project was rejected by the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne due to its connection to Abs. 
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Hans Haacke really is the GOAT. Between Condensation Cube and the MoMA Poll, I was already deeply enamored. But for him to make a work decades before the current calls for restitution of Nazi looted artwork is prescient and absolutely baller.
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