Blog – Page 35

November 11, 2016

Swiss foreign cultural policy?

by Marc Masurovsky At a time when one French Jewish family is beating its head against a brick wall to recover a painting by John Constable, […]

November 13, 2016

Revisiting the Martha Nathan loss of a Gauguin painting

by Marc Masurovsky Martha Nathan was the wife of a prominent German Jewish collector, Hugo Nathan. He died in 1922. After inheriting his wealth and his […]

November 27, 2016

The binary: Holocaust and/or plunder

by Marc Masurovsky The binary—Holocaust and plunder—is a taboo. The official binary—Holocaust OR plunder—has been the prevailing dogma characterizing the conceptualization, development and implementation of Holocaust […]

November 28, 2016

The duty to memory

by Marc Masurovsky Which is simpler—recovery of looted cultural objects or memorializing the loss of cultural objects? The short answer is: both are fraught with complications. […]

December 4, 2016

Oppose Senate Bill 3155 which legalizes the display of looted art in the United States.

by Marc Masurovsky Click here to voice your opposition. If passed, Senate Bill 3155, sponsored by American museum lobbyists and art market players, is a dream […]

December 5, 2016

“Mann mit blauer Mütze,” by Eugeniusz Zak—Part One

by Agnieszka Yass-Alston [Editor’s note: This is an article released in two parts on the work of Eugeniusz Zak. The author, Agnieszka Yass-Alston, is an art […]

December 5, 2016

“Mann mit blauer Mütze,” by Eugeniusz Zak—Part Two

by Agnieszka Yass-Alsston [Editor’s note: This is an article released in two parts on the work of Eugeniusz Zak. The author, Agnieszka Yass-Alston, is an art […]

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 […]

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 […]