November 6, 2016

Stories of objects

by Marc Masurovsky Artists produce their works in whatever media they select as their mode of expression-paper, panel, stone, metal, silk, canvas, cardboard, synthetic materials, reused […]
October 25, 2016

The domino effect

by Marc Masurovsky In its most basic form, the domino effect is an uncontrollable chain reaction, an irreversible sequence of events brought about by one well-placed […]
October 25, 2016

Peace? An unabashed biased view

by Marc Masurovsky South Korea hosted the 6th International Conference of Experts on the return of Cultural Property (ICECP), a forum which it helped create in […]
October 10, 2016

Deconstructing the Jeu de Paume

by Marc Masurovsky The process of understanding what exactly unfolded at the Jeu de Paume museum in German-occupied Paris between late 1940 and July 1944 has […]
October 9, 2016

Prisoners of war

by Marc Masurovsky In late January 2014, Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, declared that art objects stolen from Jews “are the last prisoners […]
October 8, 2016

Orphans

by Marc Masurovsky Historian Lisa Leff pointed out in her recent book, “The Archive Thief,” how, in the late 1940s, the leadership of the Jewish Cultural […]
October 2, 2016

“Portrait of Greta Moll,” by Henri Matisse

Portrait of Greta Moll by Marc Masurovsky [Editor’s note and caveat: this article brings together the major articles which appeared in the international press concerning the […]
October 1, 2016

The long summer of 2016

by Marc Masurovsky I confess. The absence of any postings on the plundered-art blog this past summer was as a direct result of the thrashing that we […]
October 1, 2016

Silences that are Hardly Golden

by Ori Z Soltes edited by Marc Masurovsky With the untimely passing of Elie Wiesel, my mind wanders back to issues that, over the years, I discussed […]