ANN: Research Group on Looted Art, Provenance Research and Restitution in the Netherlands (Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture, University of Amsterdam)
The spoliation of art during the Nazi-era and the Holocaust is the central focus of this research group. However, we extend it to colonial and other contexts as well. The group is concerned…
ANN: New issue of Art Antiquity and Law; Topics Covered: NFTs, New Zealand Auction Law, Cassirer-Pissarro etc.
The second issue of 2022 from Art Antiquity and Law covers a range of topics: Emily Gould, Assistant Director of the Institute of Art and Law, provides a detailed examination of the law relating to…
CONF: Going Global: New Challenges in the Field of Provenance Research (Romont, 15 Sep 2022)
Provenance research is not only a central field of museum activity, but has also increasingly become the focus of academic research. Since the 2018 report edited by Bénédicte Savoy and Felwine Sarr on…
EXH: Benin. Looted History (MARKK, Hamburg, until Dec 2022)
The colonial occupation of the Kingdom of Benin by British troops in February 1897 marked the end of one of the most powerful West African kingdoms. In consequence thousands of works of art…
ANN: Resolving Restitution Disputes Seminar (Institute of Art & Law; London, 27 Sep 2022)
The Institute of Art & Law will hold an in-person seminar in London on 27th September entitled “Resolving Restitution Disputes: Process, reconciliation and creativity”, run in partnership with Keystone Law. The seminar will cover…
CFP: Collections and Impermanence: Transfer, Exchange and Disposal, Society for the History of Collecting (London/Online 17 Nov 2022)
The history of collecting is the history of objects on the move. Objects collected travel through space – sold, transferred, exchanged, loaned, gifted and stolen throughout the world. They also travel through time…
JOB: Provenance Researcher, Art Loss Register, London
The Art Loss Register is the world’s largest private database of lost and stolen art. Its range of services include the registration of losses and recovery services for the victims of theft and…
ANN: Still Life with Flowers – A Case Study in the Need for an Improved Canadian Museum Restitution Procedure, Lecture by Sara Angel (Collecting and Display, 9 May 2022, 6pm BST)
This talk will address the restitution of the painting “Still Life with Flowers” (1660) attributed to Jan van Kessel II. In late 2020, the painting, which had been in the collection of the…
CONF: The Return of Looted Artefacts since 1945: post-fascist and post-colonial restitution in comparative perspective (Max Weber Foundation; 16-18 May 2022)
The Max Weber Foundation’s annual conference provides a forum for the foundation’s institutes and their research topics, as well as for other partner institutions. The event is organized and hosted by a different…