Washington Principles

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 […]
November 7, 2016

Buehrle haunts Zurich

by Marc Masurovsky In August 2015, a new book co-authored by Swiss historian and journalist, Thomas Buomberger, and art historian, Guido Magnaguagno, has called into question […]
April 15, 2018

Beyond ethnic minority rights

by Marc Masurovsky [The following presentation was delivered at the annual conference of the Lawyers’ Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation (LCCHP), which took place in Washington, […]
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

Provenance research can be challenging

by Marc Masurovsky In the two decades since the now-infamous Washington Conference on Holocaust-era Assets of December 1998 which produced the “Washington Principles.” many American museums […]
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 […]
August 3, 2018

New and enhanced version of the Washington Principles, starting in December 2018 (wishful thinking)

by Marc Masurovsky Proposal for a modified and enhanced version of the Washington Principles to be enacted in commemoration of their 20th anniversary in December 2018 […]
October 8, 2018

An “heirless” journey

by Marc Masurovsky How has the discussion on “heirless” cultural assets evolved between 2011 and 2018, as reflected in various entries in the “plundered art” blog? […]
October 9, 2018

Washington Principle #1: A critique

by Marc Masurovsky [Editor’s note: Due to the momentous nature of the upcoming international conference in Berlin, Germany, entitled “20 years Washington Principles: Roadmap for the […]