provenance research

April 9, 2011
April 9, 2011

The Krakow Declaration, May 14, 2009, Krakow, Poland

The Krakow Declaration was written by a group of independent historians, attorneys, and members of the art trade, from the United States and Europe, concerned over […]
April 9, 2011
May 9, 2011
May 9, 2011

Lessons of the May 6-7, 2011, World War II Provenance Research Seminar

An event such as this one does not happen very often, especially not in Washington, DC. Co-sponsored by the National Archives and the two leading museum […]
May 9, 2011
May 9, 2011
May 9, 2011

On a more positive note…

Regardless of where the fracture lines are drawn in the art world over the questions of provenance, due diligence and restitution, the May 6-7, 2011, seminar […]
May 9, 2011
June 2, 2011
June 2, 2011

Training the current and next generations of provenance art research specialists

The most important aspect of any inquiry into looted works and objects of art lies in the quality of the research required to demonstrate the facts […]
June 2, 2011
July 31, 2011
July 31, 2011

Provenance research becomes political

Before there was any talk of restitution of looted art to families of individuals whose cultural assets had been stolen and misappropriated in Axis-controlled Europe between […]
July 31, 2011
August 8, 2011
August 8, 2011

Krakow (May 2009), Prague (June 2009), and beyond (2009-2011): Anything new?

In mid-May 2009, a dozen individuals from the United States and Europe, mostly lawyers, one historian, and several representatives of the art market, met in a […]
August 8, 2011
August 30, 2011
August 30, 2011

Teaching provenance research at the Free University of Berlin

Free University, BerlinSource: Wikipedia Last April, the Free University of Berlin announced that it had initiated the first academic program in Germany on cultural plunder. Classes […]
August 30, 2011
September 23, 2012
September 23, 2012

Canadian problematic

The New York-based Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany,Inc. (also known as “the Claims Conference”) collated the following information on Canadian institutions and their commitment […]
September 23, 2012
July 1, 2013
July 1, 2013

Kerfuffles about provenance research training and art restitution

What does it matter where one is from and what title one carries as an adornment or what professional relationships one benefits from to get ahead […]
July 1, 2013
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