Pierre Ciric

July 12, 2014

Should museums stop using technical defenses to prevent restitution of looted art? The debate rages…

Nicholas O’Donnell’s article on Ronald Lauder’s Editorial on Stolen Art and Museums Fails the Common Sense Test By Pierre Ciric* In his article titled “Lauder Editorial […]

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 […]

October 1, 2016

The long summer of 2016

by Marc Masurovsky I confess. The absence of any postings on the plundered-art blog this past summer was as a direct result of the thrashing that we […]

December 5, 2016

The U.S. Department of State Is Structurally Unable To Perform Appropriate Provenance Research On Immunity From Seizure Applications Submitted By Foreign Museums

by Marc Masurovsky and Pierre Ciric[1] The Holocaust Art Restitution project (“HARP”) initiated research into the State Department’s ability to perform appropriate provenance research on immunity […]