The US Supreme Court’s silence on Nazi art theft fails Holocaust survivors
Last week’s decision to reject an appeal over the ownership of Picasso’s The Actor was a missed opportunity to clarify the limitations of the 2016 HEAR Act
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Provenance
Old Photos Of Enslaved African-Americans Should Belong To Their Descendants, Not Museums, Argues Lawsuit
Just as the law now requires that Native American remains and artifacts should be returned to today’s Native tribes, the descendants of a pair of slaves seen in historic daguerreotypes now owned by a Harvard museum claim that they’re the rightful owners of those slaves’ images, which are, says their lawsuit, “spoils of theft.” – […]
Dead Sea Scrolls Forgeries Cast Doubt On Bible Museum
The Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., has confirmed what many scholars have long suspected: Five artifacts it had been displaying
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`Uncomfortable Art Tours’ Question Colonialist Biases in London-Area Museum
As European museums face increased pressure to return African art — much of it taken during the so-called “Scramble for Africa” —
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Remains stolen from burial caves return to Hawaii after more than a century
(United States of America; Germany)
KHON, 26th Oct 2017.
"The remains were stolen between 1896 and 1902 and sold directly to the Museum of Ethnology in Dresden."
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National Gallery wins legal battle over Henri Matisse’s Portrait of Greta Moll
The museum and Britain were shielded by sovereign immunity and that the grandchildren had waited too long to bring the case.
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