October 2, 2016

“Portrait of Greta Moll,” by Henri Matisse

Portrait of Greta Moll by Marc Masurovsky [Editor’s note and caveat: this article brings together the major articles which appeared in the international press concerning the […]
October 8, 2016

Orphans

by Marc Masurovsky Historian Lisa Leff pointed out in her recent book, “The Archive Thief,” how, in the late 1940s, the leadership of the Jewish Cultural […]
October 9, 2016

Prisoners of war

by Marc Masurovsky In late January 2014, Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, declared that art objects stolen from Jews “are the last prisoners […]
October 10, 2016

Deconstructing the Jeu de Paume

by Marc Masurovsky The process of understanding what exactly unfolded at the Jeu de Paume museum in German-occupied Paris between late 1940 and July 1944 has […]
October 25, 2016

Peace? An unabashed biased view

by Marc Masurovsky South Korea hosted the 6th International Conference of Experts on the return of Cultural Property (ICECP), a forum which it helped create in […]
October 25, 2016

The domino effect

by Marc Masurovsky In its most basic form, the domino effect is an uncontrollable chain reaction, an irreversible sequence of events brought about by one well-placed […]
November 6, 2016

Stories of objects

by Marc Masurovsky Artists produce their works in whatever media they select as their mode of expression-paper, panel, stone, metal, silk, canvas, cardboard, synthetic materials, reused […]
November 7, 2016

Buehrle haunts Zurich

by Marc Masurovsky In August 2015, a new book co-authored by Swiss historian and journalist, Thomas Buomberger, and art historian, Guido Magnaguagno, has called into question […]
November 8, 2016

Pondering “flight assets”-Fluchtgut

by Marc Masurovsky Not to be flip, but “flight assets” is an odd expression. Its more appropriate use applies to aviation, airplanes, anything related to a […]