#Provenance

OpenLinkArtData

#Provenienzforchung Challenge- Can you:1) Identify the #Art Looting Red Flag Names in these provenances?2)Tell from the text who owned the artwork 1933-1945?(source: Harvard Art Museums; selection: "Thannhauser" mentioned in the

Spirits of the dead haunted the family for years, Thinking the curse skipped him. Almon's ghost drives him deep into the mountains. There, his ghost waits to either save him

This is a thread about a failure of peer review, a failure of the editorial process, hypocrisy and double standards: please take time to read and RT........This all goes back

Dr. Stephennie Mulder

“Since this object apparently has no provenance prior to the 1980s, we can’t know anything about the context in which it was removed from its country of origin.”Our no-provenance provenance

Victoria_S_Reed

1/5 Today is the #DayofProvenanceResearch (#TagderProvenienzforschung) and I thought I'd talk about what we all do during the day. A recent project: in 2017, the Van Otterloos and Weatherbies pledged

“‘Not married but willing to be!': men in love from the 1850s – in pictures. A new book collects photographs of male romance over the course of a century –

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Raymond Soltysek

raymondsoltysek

1. Inherently fairer? Yes, because it demonstrates an ongoing development and a learning curve. The student who progresses from let's call it level 2 up to level 5 has demonstrated

People kicking off about Starmer/Rayner's inquiry terms. Don't. The unreacted report (which I've been shown) a) reveals names/evidence given in confidence b) has no provenance... the allegations in it are

Dr. Stephennie Mulder

Unless they want to deal in looted objects, collectors, dealers, and auction houses have to get serious about transparent #provenance. A few facts @Yael_Rice and I have gathered over the

Chasing Aphrodite

ChasingAphrodit

The DOJ seeks to forfeit the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet, a cuneiform tablet purchased by the Hobby Lobby for the Museum of the Bible. DOJ says tablet "originated in the area

This is a Sabean plaque from Yemen, but the letter forms are more rigidly geometric than usually seen, and so at first glance I'd say this is likely a modern

It's that time of the year again! Changing leaves, pumpkin spice, and another Christie's sale of Islamic objects with dubious provenance records! https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/books-manuscripts/a-kufic-quran-section-probably-k

Neiman Marcus. J.Crew. Debenhams. Laura Ashley have just filed for bankruptcy. The credit ratings of parent firm’s of Coach &Michael Kors were downgraded to junk in April. Per Marketwatch, Macy’s

Shalabh Chaturvedi

I recently tried to formulate some design principles and ideas for a computing and programming system. Here they are:1/9 Meaning over MechanismComputers are mechanisms that serve human needs and human

I was asked to view the Christie's Qur'an MS which has been much discussed here and elsewhere, and as a result, have a more or less complete set of images

Chasing Aphrodite

ChasingAphrodit

Christie's attacks what it says has been a rise in "unfounded accusations" from academics and the general public who, it says, are increasingly questioning the provenance of "legitimate" historical objects