US-Russia museum loans could resume as deadlock ends

Mikhail Piotrovsky, the director of the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, is optimistic that museum loans between Russia and the US can begin again soon. Piotrovsky spoke to The Art Newspaper as the US Senate voted to pass new legislation that will protect works of art on loan to the US from foreign institutions.All Russian loans to the US were halted in 2011 amid fears that they could be impounded after a US federal judges ruling that Russia must transfer a collection of books seized by