May 30, 2018

Twenty years of Washington Principles: yet another conference

by Marc Masurovsky On November 26-28, 2018, almost exactly twenty years after the start of the Washington Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets, the German Lost Art Foundation […]
May 30, 2018

Provenance research can be challenging

by Marc Masurovsky In the two decades since the now-infamous Washington Conference on Holocaust-era Assets of December 1998 which produced the “Washington Principles.” many American museums […]
May 23, 2018

TD 51072

by Marc Masurovsky Treasury Directive TD 51072 was passed on June 8, 1944, two days after D-Day, under sections 3(a) and 5(b) of the Trade with […]
May 23, 2018

Why all the fuss about provenance research?

by Marc Masurovsky Up until the mid-to late 1990s, provenance research remained within the province of trained art historians working in cultural institutions where art objects […]
May 23, 2018

Some frequently asked questions

by Marc Masurovsky a/ What is the total number of art objects claimed? One should place the ultimate answer to this question in its proper context. […]
May 23, 2018

Contextual analysis

by Marc Masurovsky When looking at an object which is the subject of a claim, one has to know why it is “claimable.” In other words, […]
May 23, 2018

Provenance research: what to do?

by Marc Masurovsky The fault lines around contrasting views and understandings of provenance research might appear to be subtle to the uninitiated but, in reality, the […]
May 22, 2018

Provenance is a landscape

by Marc Masurovsky Provenance is a landscape where every gap is like a gorge that one crosses on a bamboo bridge. Every stretch of time left […]
May 22, 2018

Innocence and truth

by Marc Masurovsky We are socialized from an early age to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. We are told, at […]