The National Gallery London hosted on September 12, 2017 the much-anticipated conference “70 Years and Counting: the Final Opportunity?” organized by the United Kingdom Department for Digital, Culture Media & Sport (DCCS), and the Commission for Looted Art in Europe (CLAE). Delegates from numerous countries gathered to consider the state of progress on the efforts to identify and return works of art lost during the Nazi era. While the event had a truly international flair, the discussion centered primarily on the five countries that have created some sort of process to consider assertions of looted art in response to the Washington Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art: England, France, Austria, the Netherlands, and Germany.
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Victoria and Albert Museum,
Kunstrückgabebeirat,
Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte,
National Gallery London,
Constantine Cannon LLP,
Commission for Looted Art in Europe,
Washington Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art,
Christie's,
Advisory Commission,
Johannes Nathan,
Monica Dugot,
Imke Gielen,
Sotheby's,
Neumeister Auction House,
Richard Aronowitz-Mercer,
Tony Baumgartner,
Clyde & Co.,
John Glen,
UK Spoliation Advisory Panel,
The Orpheus Clock,
Art Restitution Advisory Board,
Margreet Soeting,
H. Blairman & Sons Ltd.,
Katrin Stoll,
Department for Digital Culture Media & Sport,
DCCS,
CLAE,
70 Years and Counting: the Final Opportunity?,
Gabriele Finaldi,
David Lewis,
Minister for the Arts Heritage and Tourism,
Sir Paul Jenkins,
Dr. Antonia Boström,
von Trott zu Solz Lammek,
Simon Goodman,
Sir Donnell Deeny,
Jan Bank,
Restitutions Committee of the Netherlands,
Dr. Reinhard Binder-Krieglstein,
Professor Dr. Reinhard Rürup,
Jean-Pierre Bady,
Commission pour l’indemnisation des victimes,
CVIS,
Dr. Christian Fuhrmeister,
British Library,
Nathan Fine Art,
Stedelijk Museum,
Pierre Valentine,
Martin Levy
I am speaking at a conference on March 23-24, 2017 at the University of Cambridge (UK) entitled “From Refugees to Restitution: The History of Nazi Looted Art in the UK in Transnational Perspective.” My presentation will address the various national panels created in response to the Washington Conference by European countries to address claims for Nazi-looted art in state collections. The roster of speakers is impressive (present company excluded), and it promises to be a fascinating two days. The program is available here, and the conference website is here.
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Wiesbaden,
London,
Holocaust Art Restitution Project,
Paris,
Art Recovery Group,
Constantine Cannon LLP,
Emily Löffler,
Pierre Valentin,
Events,
Johannes Nathan,
Karlsruhe,
Marc Masurovsky,
Sotheby's,
Nicholas M. O'Donnell,
Emmanuelle Polack,
Leopold Museum,
Frankfurt,
Jewish Claims Conference,
Victoria Louise Steinwachs,
Debbie De Girolamo,
Tabitha I. Oost,
Bianca Gaudenzi,
Jewish Museum Prague,
Robert Holzbauer,
Tessa Rosebrock,
Staatliche Kunsthalle,
Laurel Zuckerman,
Shlomit Steinberg,
Richard Aronowitz-Mercer,
Maike Brueggen,
Nathalie Neumann,
Simone Gigliotti,
Royal Holloway University of London,
Anne O. Popham,
Ulrike Schmiegelt-Rietig,
Isabel von Klitzing,
Landesmuseum Mainz,
Michaela Sidenberg,
Mary Kate Cleary,
Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art,
Fluchtgut,
Diana Kostyrko,
Elizabeth Campbell,
University of Denver,
Evelien Campfens,
Leiden University,
Angelina Giovani,
Jennifer Gramer,
Agata Wolska,
Nathan Fine Art GmbH,
Potsdam,
Friederike Schwelle,
Art Loss Register,
Provenance Research & Art Consulting
The ABA Journal has opened voting again on its annual “Blog 100,” a roll of notable legal blogs. I’ve submitted votes for the following blogs (in no particular order), which I have bookmarked and consult regularly. The great thing about blogging, I have found, is the ability it gives the reader (and the blogger) to survey multiple perspectives on a subject. So when resale royalties are under discussion, or fair use, I don’t want to read only articles that I agree with or that take the same approach that I would. I also want to hear something I never would have thought of, and expand the conversation.
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Topics:
Donn Zaretsky,
Paul Howcroft,
ABA Journal,
Stropheus,
Blogs,
Judith Prowda,
Art Law & More,
London,
Peter Bert,
Fladgate LLP,
Richard Lehun,
Constantine Cannon LLP,
Irina Tarsis,
Blog 100,
Azmina Jasani,
Pierre Valentin,
Silberman and Associates,
Dispute Resolution in Germany,
Art@Law,
Boodle Hatfield LLP,
Taylor Wessing,
Natalia Mikolajczyk,
Private Art Investor,
The Art Law Blog,
Art Law London,
Becky Shaw,
Tim Maxwell,
Center for Art Law,
Frankfurt
