October 18, 2017

Different shades of recovery

by Marc Masurovsky The process of recovery of looted cultural, artistic and religious objects is daunting for several reasons: If action is not taken right away […]
October 16, 2017

So I Have Been Thinking…

[Note: The following text is a reaction/thought piece to a recent query. Since this blog page is about thinking, these are things to think about. The […]
February 27, 2017

Oprah and Adele II

by Marc Masurovsky Warning: This is an opinion piece and you—the reader—are always free to disagree with what you are about to read. Perhaps, after having […]
February 25, 2017

Talking points

by Marc Masurovsky From 1933 to 1945, millions of cultural and artistic objects changed hands illegally as a result of Nazi persecutions. Many objects were recycled […]
January 20, 2017

A new era

by Marc Masurovsky As the transition in political and economic power unfolds in the United States, the world is apprehensive, wondering what the new administration, one […]
January 13, 2017

What is to be done?

by Marc Masurovsky Locating looted art in public and private collections, auction houses, galleries, is one thing; recovering these plundered objects is quite another. The search […]
December 20, 2016

Master of the game

by Marc Masurovsky Mikhail Piotrovsky is a heavily-decorated, scholarly, and savvy art historian who has been raised in Soviet then Russian museology. He is a true […]
December 18, 2016

Russian activity on the plundered art blog

by Marc Masurovsky What could be so interesting about the “plundered art” blog that it has attracted a blizzard of pageviews unlike anything seen since the […]
December 5, 2016

The U.S. Department of State Is Structurally Unable To Perform Appropriate Provenance Research On Immunity From Seizure Applications Submitted By Foreign Museums

by Marc Masurovsky and Pierre Ciric[1] The Holocaust Art Restitution project (“HARP”) initiated research into the State Department’s ability to perform appropriate provenance research on immunity […]