WWW: New site of the “Mission de recherche et de restitution des biens culturels spoliés entre 1933 et 1945” (M2RS), French Ministry for Culture
The “Mission de recherche et de restitution des biens culturels spoliés entre 1933 et 1945” (M2RS), attached to the French Ministry for Culture, has a new website dedicated to research on and restitution…
ANN: DZK Kolloquium Provenienzforschung – Floria Segieth-Wülfert, „Spuren in situ – Kunsttechnologie und Provenienzmerkmale“ (Dt. Zentrum Kulturgutverluste, online 30 Jan 2023)
Das Deutsche Zentrum Kulturgutverluste lädt in Kooperation mit CARMAH (Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage) zur Veranstaltungsreihe „Kolloquium Provenienzforschung“ ein. Am 30. Januar 2023, 18 Uhr, hält Floria Segieth-Wuelfert einen Vortrag…
ANN / EXH: Reflecting on Restitution – 25 Years of the Washington Principles on Nazi Confiscated Art (Christie’s 2023)
The year 2023 marks the 25th anniversary of the Washington Principles – an international agreement that opened a new era of transparency with respect to art lost or stolen during the Nazi period…
ANN: The Restitution Dialogues – Exploring the Vatican Archives (18 January 2023, 12 noon Toronto, 5 pm London, 6 pm Bonn, 7 pm Tel Aviv)
The Vatican Archives in Rome house tens of thousands of Indigenous items, many from Canada. In light of the Church’s role in Canada’s residential schools and the larger global conversation about cultural loss and…
CONF: The Benin Bronzes. Globalising the Colonial Looting of Art (Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg, 25-26 Oct 2022)
To conclude the research project of the same name, the conference, ‘The Benin Bronzes. Globalising the Colonial Looting of Art‘ will take place on 25/26 October 2022 in the lecture hall of the…
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…