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Showing posts with label Metropolitan Museum of Art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Metropolitan Museum of Art. Show all posts
22 November 2024

Utopian thoughts on a lazy, snowy Friday

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by Marc Masurovsky Museums Acquisitions of objects are limited to those objects with no taint whatsoever on title. Under-provenanced objects...
26 December 2019

"The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian" by Andrea del Castagno

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by Marc Masurovsky Stranger things have happened regarding works of art with no written pasts that end up in a world-class museum like New Y...
22 November 2019

Diplomatic highs and lows in Paris

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by Marc Masurovsky Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat , special envoy on Holocaust affairs for the US Department of State, was one of the most pr...
05 December 2016

The U.S. Department of State Is Structurally Unable To Perform Appropriate Provenance Research On Immunity From Seizure Applications Submitted By Foreign Museums

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by Marc Masurovsky and Pierre Ciric [1] The Holocaust Art Restitution project (“HARP”) initiated research into the State Department’s abili...
01 October 2016

"The Actor," by Pablo Picaso

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by Marc Masurovsky The Actor, by Pablo Picasso. Saturday morning, 1 October 2016, brought news of a restitution claim filed by the ...
12 February 2013

Three Impressionist paintings, three (or rather two) destinies

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On March 1, 1941, the Paris art dealership of Durand-Ruel ships to its German client, Mr. Wolfgang Krüger, three high-priced paintings by n...
11 January 2012

The “three graces” of art restitution

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"The Graces of the Gardens of the Hesperides", Rubens, taken by the ERR Source: Holocaust-Era Assets Portal, NARA, RG 111-SC-3...
14 November 2011

Safeguarding art in Nazi Germany for the greater good: an outline

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For as long as museums have existed, one of their cardinal raisons d’être has been to preserve the finest specimens of “CULTURE” for the gr...