Alfred Barr

April 10, 2011

Henri Matisse in Vichy France

by Marc Masurovsky As in the case of Pablo Picasso and many other eminent artists plying their creative streak in France, Henri Matisse chose to remain […]
June 22, 2011

How to profit from State-sanctioned plunder: the Entartete Kunst case

The Nazi government enacted on May 31, 1938, the ”Act on Confiscations of Degenerate Art“ (“Gesetz über Einziehung von Erzeugnissen entarteter Kunst“) in order to legitimize […]
September 14, 2012

O Canada! Where did you go wrong?

What is the problem up there? Way back when, at the turn of the twenty-first century, an international conference was held in Ottawa hosted by the […]
August 8, 2018

MoMA’s dalliances with the two portraits of Max Hermann Neisse by Georg Grosz

by Marc Masurovsky  “Portrait of Max Hermann Neisse”, by Georg Grosz, 1925 In April 2009, the heirs of the German expressionist artist, Georg Grosz, filed an […]