November 5, 2018

Washington Principle #10: A Critique

by Marc Masurovsky [Editor’s note: Due to the momentous nature of the upcoming international conference in Berlin, Germany, on November 26-28, 2018 and entitled “20 years […]
November 5, 2018

Washington Principle #11: A Critique

by Marc Masurovsky [Editor’s note: Due to the momentous nature of the upcoming international conference in Berlin, Germany, on November 26-28, 2018 and entitled “20 years […]
March 2, 2019

Another opinionated exercise

by Marc Masurovsky An opinionated exercise in text analysis (a segue to a similar undertaking) Disclaimer: this deconstructive undertaking is not meant to judge a person’s […]
April 3, 2019

A Nude by Moise Kisling

by Marc Masurovsky “Nude,” by Moise Kisling, 1918 On November 11, 2010, a “Nude” by Moïse Kisling from 1918, was offered for sale at Christie’s South […]
November 5, 2019

The Gyeongju Declaration of 2016

by Marc MasurovskyThree years ago, representatives from China, Turkey, Greece, Cambodia, UNESCO, the United States, the United Kingdom, and South Korea, gathered at Gyeongju, South Korea, […]
November 6, 2019

Restitution is an elite sport

by Marc Masurovsky The post-1945 years have shown that State intervention in the treatment of restitution claims arising from wholesale plunder of Jewish-owned property ensured that […]
November 7, 2019

The “heirless” game update.

by Marc Masurovsky One would have thought that this matter of who owns what object stolen during the Nazi era would have been settled by now. […]
November 13, 2019

Torso of General Psamtik, Governor of Upper Egypt

by Marc Masurovsky MA-AEGY 1, front MA-AEGY 1 This Torso is one of the more stunning Egyptian antiquities looted by the Nazis and their French collaborators […]
November 16, 2019

Historians vs. lawyers

by Marc Masurovsky The past two decades have witnessed hundreds of restitution cases whose purpose is to reclaim the return of objects looted during the Nazi […]