Egon Schiele – Page 2

July 1, 2013

1998: Year Zero of Art Restitution?

Highlights from that fateful year include, but are not limited to: -the seizure of two paintings by Egon Schiele at the Museum of Modern Art in […]

June 9, 2014

Belated open letter to the “New Republic”

Leon Wieseltier, Literary Editor of The New Republic, Source: Brandeis University by Marc J. Masurovsky Why did it take so long for the “New Republic” to […]

June 16, 2014

Provenance research—now and later (First installment)

This “think-aloud” is neither the first nor the last on a topic that has become, despite its innocuous phrasing, far more contentious than it ought to […]

June 16, 2014

Provenance research—now and later (Second Installment)

Since the seizure of “Portrait of Wally” in early January 1998, provenance research has lost its innocence. Battle lines have been drawn between defendants upholding their […]

May 24, 2015

Thorough research drives restitution of looted art and yet….

by Marc Masurovsky It is absolutely fair and just to ask why, in the past two decades, there have been no systematic efforts deployed to make […]

June 11, 2015

My Favorite Rant: on Education, Restitution and the Culture of Museums

by Ori Z Soltes One of the questions that, as a former Museum Director and Curator I remember having frequently asked my staff, my advisory board […]

August 31, 2015

A small tribute to Charles Goldstein

Charles Goldstein by Marc Masurovsky Charles Goldstein, counsel to the Commission for Art Recovery and Ronald Lauder’s attorney, died on July 30, 2015. He was 78 […]

January 25, 2016

Recent auction in Utah

by Marc Masurovsky An auction recently took place on January 14, 2016, at St. George, Utah, organized by Pine Valley Auctions. Among the lots being offered […]

March 20, 2016

The economics of restitution battles

by Marc Masurovsky In an ideal world, the cost of seeking restitution of a Nazi-looted art object should not be a hindrance to achieving justice. The […]