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June 5, 2011
June 5, 2011

Van Gogh’s 1889 depiction of his mutilated self smoking a pipe–PR 144

In a catalogue of works from the private collection of Mary and Leigh Block of Chicago, IL, the first painting that one sees is an iconic […]
June 5, 2011
June 4, 2011
June 4, 2011

What lies at the heart of HEART?

In a great fanfare of trumpets blasting that no one could ignore, the Jewish Agency, through its spokesperson, Bobby Brown, announced the creation of Project HEART—the […]
June 4, 2011
June 2, 2011
June 2, 2011

Memorable quotes from US restitution officials, 1943-1955

Francis Henry TaylorSource: Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution “Public institutions disposing of trust funds could not very well connive in the liquidation of the artistic […]
June 2, 2011
June 2, 2011
June 2, 2011

Training the current and next generations of provenance art research specialists

The most important aspect of any inquiry into looted works and objects of art lies in the quality of the research required to demonstrate the facts […]
June 2, 2011
May 31, 2011
May 31, 2011

The Hemer case or how a claimant does not want to be a claimant

It does happen. After all, we are what we are. Above all, human and highly imperfect, motivated by an infinity of whims and desires and concerns. […]
May 31, 2011
May 31, 2011
May 31, 2011

Knoedler’s in Paris under the Nazis

At the outbreak of World War II, the world-famous New York-based art gallery, Knoedler’s, had a branch in Paris—in fact, it had two offices there, one […]
May 31, 2011
May 30, 2011
May 30, 2011

Analysis of an address by Ambassador Stuart E. Eizenstat at Prague in June 2009

On June 27, 2009, US Ambassador Stuart E. Eizenstat spoke the following words to the assembled participants at the Prague Holocaust Era Assets Conference: “Like the […]
May 30, 2011
May 29, 2011
May 29, 2011

Wartime art trade between Caracas, Venezuela, and New York

In September 1944, the Navy Censorship office in New York notified William Burke, of the Frick Art Reference Library, that a group of 30 paintings coming […]
May 29, 2011
May 28, 2011
May 28, 2011

Plunder of culture

The plunder of culture is a crime against humanity. And the right to culture is a human right. Since the dawn of ages, men and women […]
May 28, 2011
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