plundered art – Page 24

August 18, 2013

Twice plundered: two paintings by forgotten artist Ilona Singer-Weinberger

by Misha Sidenberg, Jewish Museum of Prague, Czech Republic Man in a Brown Suit (also known as Man with a Cigarette, 1928, oil on canvas, c. […]

August 3, 2013

Researching heirless property in Israel

by Shir Kochavi The end of the Second World War arrived at a time when Israel (then, Palestine) had been fighting for independence both in the […]

August 3, 2013

Mea culpa, of sorts

by Marc Masurovsky On August 2, 2013, an unusual workshop came to an end at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, capped by a […]

July 19, 2013

When is restitution a bad thing? The case of Melanesian wood carvings

by Verity Algar, co-posting with ARCAblog The Holocaust Art Restitution Project and other organisations aiming to restitute Holocaust-looted art to its rightful owners justifiably propose restitution […]

July 1, 2013

It has been 15 years since that fateful year of 1998: what do we have in 2013?

The American government prefers to let the market decide on what is fair and just for Holocaust victims of cultural plunder. European governments are loath to […]

July 1, 2013

In praise of future collaborative endeavors through provenance research training workshops

Preparations are currently under way to organize a third provenance research training workshop (the first two were in Magdeburg, Germany, and in Zagreb, Croatia) under the […]

July 1, 2013

Kerfuffles about provenance research training and art restitution

What does it matter where one is from and what title one carries as an adornment or what professional relationships one benefits from to get ahead […]

July 1, 2013

1998: Year Zero of Art Restitution?

Highlights from that fateful year include, but are not limited to: -the seizure of two paintings by Egon Schiele at the Museum of Modern Art in […]

July 1, 2013

From Inside Neolithic Walls: On Collaboration and Cooperation

by Martin Terrazas, co-posting with ARCAblog Individuals have asked me about the quality of the program offered by the Association for Research into Crimes against Art, […]