plundered art – Page 22

June 16, 2014

Provenance research—now and later (Second Installment)

Since the seizure of “Portrait of Wally” in early January 1998, provenance research has lost its innocence. Battle lines have been drawn between defendants upholding their […]

June 16, 2014

Provenance research—now and later (First installment)

This “think-aloud” is neither the first nor the last on a topic that has become, despite its innocuous phrasing, far more contentious than it ought to […]

June 12, 2014

Voyage en Pologne

Ruins of Warsaw Ghetto, leveled by German forces, according to Adolf Hitler’s order, after suppressing of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943. North-west view, left- the […]

June 10, 2014

The Real Monuments Men—and Women

by Elizabeth Karlsgodt, Associate Professor of History, University of Denver Elizabeth KarlsgodtSource: University of Denver, Arts Humanities & Social Sciences George Clooney’s latest film, The Monuments […]

June 9, 2014

Belated open letter to the “New Republic”

Leon Wieseltier, Literary Editor of The New Republic, Source: Brandeis University by Marc J. Masurovsky Why did it take so long for the “New Republic” to […]

June 9, 2014

Miscellaneous thoughts about cultural plunder

Yellow badge made mandatory by the Nazis in FranceSource: Wikipedia There is a prevalent feeling that we trivialize the Holocaust if we emphasize material losses. We […]

May 5, 2014

RE: H.R. 4292 Foreign Cultural Exchange Jurisdictional Immunity Clarification Act

April 23, 2014 VIA TELEFAX TRANSMISSION All U.S. RepresentativesU.S. House of Representatives RE: H.R. 4292 Foreign Cultural Exchange Jurisdictional Immunity Clarification Act Dear Representative: Please be […]

January 30, 2014

Tour d’horizon rapide de l’état des restitutions en Europe et aux Amériques

Stuart EizenstatSource: Wikipedia Canada : Une commission d’études vient d’être mise en place, dirigée par Janet Brooke, pour recenser les problèmes de provenance dans six musées […]

January 30, 2014

Ce que j’aurais voulu dire aujourd’hui mais n’en ai pas la force

Plaque Rose VALLANDSource: MNR Le crime contre l’humanité est imprescriptible. Le pillage qui l’accompagne est également imprescriptible. Et c’est peut-être pour cela que les gouvernements de […]