D.C. will have to wait for Durer

Differences between the Austrian government and the Albertina Museum in Vienna have forced indefinite postponement of a National Gallery of Art exhibition planned in Washington this fall of more than 100 drawings, watercolors and prints by Albrecht Durer, often called the greatest German artist of the Renaissance.

A spokeswoman for the museum would not give any details about the problem holding up the loan of the artworks for exhibit. Published reports in Europe have said that many other loans have been dropped at the behest of the Austrian Federal Monuments Service.