Ori Soltes

December 24, 2010
December 24, 2010

Origin of HARP—September 1997

The Holocaust Art Restitution Project was founded on September 4, 1997, in Washington, DC.  Its founders were Ori Z. Soltes, then director of the B’nai B’rith […]
December 24, 2010
April 2, 2011
April 2, 2011

Cardozo Law School follow-up—Larry Kaye and the ‘Portrait of Walli’

Portrait of Wally, Egon ScheileSource: MJH Larry Kaye discussed the circumstances under which Egon Schiele’s ‘Portrait of Walli’ had been seized under orders of the then-District […]
April 2, 2011
April 9, 2011
April 9, 2011

“A new paradigm for restituting looted cultural property?”, by Marc Masurovsky

by Marc MasurovskyThis presentation was delivered during the Prague Conference of June 26-30, 2009. Although somewhat strident, it captures a number of basic points regarding the […]
April 9, 2011
May 2, 2011
May 2, 2011

Letter to Marilyn Henry concerning the return of ‘Portrait of Wally’ by Egon Schiele

Note: This letter was sent to the late Marilyn Henry in an effort to articulate complicated thoughts pertaining to the unsettling resolution of a decades-old battle to […]
May 2, 2011
June 5, 2011
June 5, 2011

Jeudi 4 septembre 1997: colloque sur les conséquences juridiques et morales des restitutions d’oeuvres et d’objets d’art, Washington, DC

Un extrait de la conférence/colloque qui s’est tenue le jeudi 4 septembre 1997 à 9h30 sur les conséquences juridiques et morales des restitutions d’oeuvres et d’objets […]
June 5, 2011
April 30, 2012
April 30, 2012

Wild Weekend with Wally—Part One

Self-Portrait, by Egon Schiele, 1912Source: Google Images No, it’s not what it sounds like. I did not spend a wild weekend with Wally.  Portrait of Wally, […]
April 30, 2012
October 18, 2012
October 18, 2012

Revisiting Senate Bill 2212—Part One

By Nikki Georgopulos, special to “plundered art” There has been a great deal of opining and sounding off recently among lawyers, professors, art historians, and art-related […]
October 18, 2012
January 4, 2015
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 4, 2015
February 10, 2016
February 10, 2016

Thoughts about provenance research, 1995-2016

by Marc Masurovsky It has been almost twenty years, yes, 20, two times 10, 4 times 5, since “provenance research” entered the public sphere in the […]
February 10, 2016
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