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April 4, 2016

Provenance research on display–Part Two

by Marc Masurovsky How is “provenance research” defined? Some institutions stress the linguistic roots of the word “provenance.” The Getty Museum teaches us that the word […]

April 4, 2016

Provenance research on display–Part Three

by Marc Masurovsky This is the third installment in a series of articles on provenance research as presented to the general and specialized public through digital […]

June 3, 2016

Provenance research 2016

by Marc Masurovsky The “theory and practice of provenance research” seminar/workshop at the Museum of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX, has wrapped up its fourth […]

December 18, 2016

Russian activity on the plundered art blog

by Marc Masurovsky What could be so interesting about the “plundered art” blog that it has attracted a blizzard of pageviews unlike anything seen since the […]

January 13, 2017

What is to be done?

by Marc Masurovsky Locating looted art in public and private collections, auction houses, galleries, is one thing; recovering these plundered objects is quite another. The search […]

May 23, 2018

Provenance research: what to do?

by Marc Masurovsky The fault lines around contrasting views and understandings of provenance research might appear to be subtle to the uninitiated but, in reality, the […]

May 23, 2018

Why all the fuss about provenance research?

by Marc Masurovsky Up until the mid-to late 1990s, provenance research remained within the province of trained art historians working in cultural institutions where art objects […]

May 30, 2018

Twenty years of Washington Principles: yet another conference

by Marc Masurovsky On November 26-28, 2018, almost exactly twenty years after the start of the Washington Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets, the German Lost Art Foundation […]

November 5, 2019

The Gyeongju Declaration of 2016

by Marc MasurovskyThree years ago, representatives from China, Turkey, Greece, Cambodia, UNESCO, the United States, the United Kingdom, and South Korea, gathered at Gyeongju, South Korea, […]