November 15, 2012

Réflexions sur “le Chagrin et la Pitié » de Marcel Ophuls

Clermont-Ferrand en juin 1940Source: Arch. Credit photo: D.R. En revoyant ce film-fleuve de la France sous l’Occupation allemande, je me suis rendu compte de tous les […]
November 10, 2012

Revisiting Senate Bill 2212, Part Two

by Nikki Georgopulos, special to plundered art As explored in Part One of this article, the so-called Nazi exception in Senate Bill 2212 (S.2212) has myriad […]
October 18, 2012

Revisiting Senate Bill 2212—Part One

By Nikki Georgopulos, special to “plundered art” There has been a great deal of opining and sounding off recently among lawyers, professors, art historians, and art-related […]
September 25, 2012

The AAMD in search of new markets

It’s not every day that one finds archival gems on the Internet, especially coming straight from the  Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD). Flash back to […]
September 23, 2012

Canadian problematic

The New York-based Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany,Inc. (also known as “the Claims Conference”) collated the following information on Canadian institutions and their commitment […]
September 23, 2012

Food for thought

At this point, there are two camps, one of which refuses to compromise, while the other has always been open to dialogue and exchanges of information. […]
September 14, 2012

O Canada! Where did you go wrong?

What is the problem up there? Way back when, at the turn of the twenty-first century, an international conference was held in Ottawa hosted by the […]
April 30, 2012

Wild Weekend with Wally-Part Two

Close-up view of “Portrait of Wally”Source: Google Images Andrew Shea, DirectorSource: Google Images The making of a documentary film on the fate of the “Portrait of […]
April 30, 2012

Wild Weekend with Wally—Part One

Self-Portrait, by Egon Schiele, 1912Source: Google Images No, it’s not what it sounds like. I did not spend a wild weekend with Wally.  Portrait of Wally, […]