August 24, 2015

The Struggle Continues

by Ori Z. Soltes Which struggle?  Not just that on behalf of claimants whose cultural property was seized by the Nazis more than half a century […]
June 11, 2015

My Favorite Rant: on Education, Restitution and the Culture of Museums

by Ori Z Soltes One of the questions that, as a former Museum Director and Curator I remember having frequently asked my staff, my advisory board […]
May 29, 2015

Stop the illegal sale of sacred Hopi artifacts by EVE auction house in Paris on June 1, 2015!

Editor’s note: We are publishing a letter co-signed by a group of dedicated scholars and museum directors who are outraged that the French government is allowing […]
May 28, 2015

Memorial Day Ruminations

by Ori Z Soltes Three related issues interwove themselves in my mind thanks to a serendipitous catching up with emails on this sunny Memorial Day weekend. […]
May 26, 2015

Happy birthday, Vincent van Gogh! Part Two

by Angelina Giovani [Editor’s note: This is the second installment of the story of the “Portrait of Dr. Gachet” by Vincent van Gogh. The first part, […]
May 25, 2015

Monday afternoon rant: is cultural destruction in the 21st century inevitable?

by Marc Masurovsky Palmyra  As the world sits by and watches ISIS forces overwhelm the town of Palmyra, shudders go down our collective spines and dread […]
May 24, 2015

Thorough research drives restitution of looted art and yet….

by Marc Masurovsky It is absolutely fair and just to ask why, in the past two decades, there have been no systematic efforts deployed to make […]
May 24, 2015

A quick meditation on the meaning of restitution

by Marc MasurovskyAn aged claimant recovered earlier this week what, for the most part, is a painting by an artist whose ratings in today’s hyper-inflated market […]
May 17, 2015

J’accuse

by Ori Z. Soltes On September 28, 1791, two years after the onset of mass revolutionary violence that we know now as the French Revolution, the […]