Wonderful to see the continuing restitution of Nazi stolen silver to heirs following on from the story first published by B'nai B'rith Intl. magazine in Winter 2022: bnaibrith.org/news-media/bna… B'nai Brith Canada Bnai Brith Europe Gene Meyer #Munich

I used to loooove Twitter but its decline continues. Fewer people use the app daily. The breaking news element got weakened. Sad story. Source: buff.ly/3TsITHP

'An official from the Ethiopian Orthodox Church has confirmed the identity of an object held at National Museums Scotland (NMS) as a sacred Ethiopian Tabot...' Read on at returningheritage.com/national-museu…

Would a Trump Presidency bring a federal national abortion ban?

This is not from Medieval Europe. This was built in New Jersey — in the 1950s.

So here's a thread of the most spectacular (and unique) churches in America... 🧵

With the well-deserved and long-overdue recognition of the newly renamed #RoseValland Terrace, we can’t wait for our translation into English of Rose Valland’s memoirs to be available for the first time to readers all over the world. Coming later this year!monumentsmenandwomenfnd.org/support/the-ar…

Criminality in US museums. A growing problem. #artlaw #museums

Trickery. How provenance 'researchers' launder property stolen from Holocaust victims. #artlaw

1915 Renoir painting on offer:
'Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 16 March 1991, lot 29
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner'
Translation:
No known owners or locations (1915-1991) and then nothing again.
A bit like a nuclear submarine.
In deep water.

mutualart.com/Artwork/Poisso…

WordPerfect > Word

Renoir painting offered at Sotheby's:
'...Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 26 April 1926, lot 87
Collection Mr. Lecomte (acquired at the above sale)
Private collection, France
Thence by descent to the present owner'
1928-2024: 100 yrs of uncertainty. DATES matter!
mutualart.com/Artwork/Enviro…

I’m so grateful for all the love and support.

Provenance Research 101:
A provenance without dates is worthless
'Mr. & Mrs. John Warrington, Cincinnati
Galería Theo, Barcelona
Acquired from the above by the present owner'
mutualart.com/Artwork/Valse/…

I often confuse Paris with New York. But I am not a professional provenance researcher who gets paid by Spain to know the difference and to spot lying Nazis. The Cassirer case is a disgrace to Spain. #artlaw

Ray Dowd Thanks. Just listened.
The mention of #provenanceresearch by MFAH's lawyer Thaddeus Stauber reminded me of the critique of the quality of that research published by Monuments Men and Women Foundation

Wish courts of #law could go deeper into reality faced by families.
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Ray Dowd Monuments Men and Women Foundation Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung The Provenance Research Blog #provenanceresearchday
Provenance researchers should be encouraged to study the detailed Monuments Men and Women Foundation critique of the provenance research report commissioned by #MFAH for Emden case.

Here's the link.
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Attached a few of the annotations.
#arthistory

✉️ Au-delà de la gde joie qu'il y a à publier le fruit de patientes enquêtes, il y a ce sentiment indéfinissable lorsqu'on lit les messages reconnaissants des descendants de ces combattants pr l'art qui soudain (re)découvrent la vie de leurs aïeux. Un des bonheurs de la recherche

Happy provenance day, ya'll.

To celebrate, Liv and I will be presenting some new research on forged and false provenances at the upcoming Antiquities Action symposium this Saturday.

Also: keynote by Erin L. Thompson !

Sign up, tune in:
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Detecting Deception in Art Provenance Texts

#NEW video
👉youtube.com/watch?v=AXwjBo…

Presentation of a computational approach, published online in honor of #provenanceresearch day

Rigged Game conference
#digitaltools #NLP #artlaw #tagderprovenienzforschung #provenanceresearch

Art traffickers lie.
(Why? $$$$$$)

The job of a real #provenance researcher is NOT to transcribe the false story told by a dealer into an official provenance.
The job is to verify sources. Find out the truth.

False provenance is not a victimless crime.

Don't be a part of it