June 27, 2014

THE HOLOCAUST ART RESTITUTION PROJECT DENOUNCES A “SHAMEFUL” AND “TRAGIC” DECISION BY THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT TO REFUSE THE SUSPENSION OF AN AUCTION SALE OF SACRED HOPI AND NAVAJO MASKS TO BE HELD AT PARIS’ HOTEL DROUOT ON JUNE 27, 2014.

Press Contacts: In Washington, DC: Marc Masurovsky, (00) 1 202 255 1602 , plunderedart@gmail.comIn New York, NY: Pierre Ciric (00) 1 212 260 6090, pciric@ciriclawfirm.com For […]
January 4, 2015

HARP and the Hopi Tribe

by Ori Z. Soltes, President, the Holocaust Art Restitution Project, Inc. (*) Protest outside Hotel Drouot auction house in Paris The Holocaust Art Restitution Project (“HARP”) […]
January 23, 2015

A sneak preview romp through Metro Curates in New York City

Source: Metro Curates by Marc Masurovsky This unusual annual art fair attracts dealers from across the United States and occasionally from Europe and the Far East […]
April 9, 2015

HARP teams up with the Hopi tribe to denounce the illegal sale of sacred Hopi objects at Drouot

PRESS RELEASE: THE HOLOCAUST ART RESTITUTION PROJECT AND THE CHAIRMAN OF THE HOPI TRIBE ANNOUNCE A JOINT LAWSUIT FILED IN FRANCE AGAINST A RECENT DECISION BY […]
May 17, 2015

J’accuse

by Ori Z. Soltes On September 28, 1791, two years after the onset of mass revolutionary violence that we know now as the French Revolution, the […]
May 28, 2015

Memorial Day Ruminations

by Ori Z Soltes Three related issues interwove themselves in my mind thanks to a serendipitous catching up with emails on this sunny Memorial Day weekend. […]
May 29, 2015

Stop the illegal sale of sacred Hopi artifacts by EVE auction house in Paris on June 1, 2015!

Editor’s note: We are publishing a letter co-signed by a group of dedicated scholars and museum directors who are outraged that the French government is allowing […]
August 24, 2015

The Struggle Continues

by Ori Z. Soltes Which struggle?  Not just that on behalf of claimants whose cultural property was seized by the Nazis more than half a century […]