Blog – Page 25

March 1, 2015

Are German museums in favor of restitution?

by Marc Masurovsky By the looks of it, the answer is a qualified NO. Let’s take a quick run-through at the track record of German institutions […]

March 7, 2015

Rwanda: Art in a post-genocide society

by Marc Masurovsky By all accounts, there is no reason why artistic activity should have even found a haven in a society where half of the […]

March 7, 2015

So What Was on Hitler’s Mind as an Art-Plunderer?

by Ori Z Soltes For many readers of this blog, these observations may not be new, but for others they may provide food for thought. Those […]

March 15, 2015

Letter from Nyamata genocide memorial, outside Kigali, Rwanda.

by Marc Masurovsky Entrance to Nyamata Genocide Memorial The skulls and bones of more than 10,000 Tutsi murdered at Nyamata (45,000 remains are buried there from […]

March 18, 2015

An opinion piece: An epitaph for provenance research training?

by Marc Masurovsky According to the most recent TEFAF Art Market survey, the global art market has exceeded 51 billion euros in value for 2014. Half […]

March 25, 2015

Murambi: a death camp by any other name

by Marc Masurovsky The Murambi memorial site is, literally, in the middle of nowhere. view of the entrance to Murambi After reaching Butare, the second largest […]

March 30, 2015

Happy birthday, Vincent van Gogh! Portrait of Dr. Gachet, a book review

by Angelina Giovani Portrait of Dr. Gachet, van Gogh (1890) First version [Editors’ note: One way to celebrate Vincent van Gogh’s birthday is to reminisce about […]

April 6, 2015

Provenance was optional at 2015 TEFAF in Maastricht

by Angelina Giovani The 28th edition of the European Fine Arts Fair, TEFAF, closed its doors on March 22, 2015, in Maastricht. It welcomed 75,000 visitors […]

April 6, 2015

The Gurlitt Affair: A canary in the coal mine?

by Ori Z Soltes Surrounded by all kinds of interesting and problematic details, there are three large issues that stand out in the now-notorious case of […]