Crown Prince Alois of Liechtenstein recently canceled a loan of art from his family's collection to a museum in Munich.
These two projects are not missionary-style efforts to bring arts to the regions but deep-rooted social projects, aided by a complex relationship with national institutions, such as the Tate's loaning of art works to galleries around the country.
Selections of them could be leased out to Western institutions, or even swapped for temporary loans of Western art.
The Hermitage Amsterdam, a new museum for exhibiting loans of Russian art, was officially open, with an inaugural show entitled "At the Russian Court: Palace and Protocol in the XIXth Century".
If the ruling goes against the Getty this time, it will have to consider whether defying the order would undermine the good relations, including prized loans of Italian art, that it has enjoyed with the Italian government's culture ministry.
It also includes, not by the way, a splendid not-for-sale loan display of art, Americana and artifacts from the famous Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vt., that is the Winter Antiques Show's bonus.
The museum will receive loans of "works of art of great significance and cultural importance," the statement said.
Aéroports de Paris, the public company that runs the airport, and Artcurial, an auction house, created an endowment fund to manage the space and negotiate the loan of works of art from institutions.
"It was much easier to get than a traditional loan," said Darren Scott of art clothier Zero Friends in an email to TechCrunch.
