I am pleased to announce that I will be among the speakers in Milan on September 30, 2024 at a conference organized by the Universitá degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vantivelli and the UNESCO Chair on Business Integrity and Crime Prevention in Art and Antiquities Market: “Preventing Art Crimes Through Regulation and Self-Regulation.” To be held at the Palazzo Visconti, the conference will offer a full day of expert speakers on the topics of Updating the UNESCO International Code of Ethics for Dealers in Cultural Property; Codes of Conduct, Codes of Ethics and Other Soft Law Tools in Cultural Heritage (in which I will be a discussant); the Legal Impact of Due Diligence Procedures and Acquisition, Anti-Money Laundering in the Art Market; and Industry Practices and Judicial Applications: Lessons to be Learned. The program is below, and registration may be found here.
As the title and expertise of the participants suggest, this will be an excellent broad view of the question of regulation in cultural property, and the extent to which market participants can guide the outcome. It will focus on public-private partnerships for the prevention of wrongdoings against cultural property, and specific attention will be devoted to the role that codes of conduct, due diligence, and KYC procedures play in this area. I am excited to be a part of the event and see many old friends. I hope that if you are nearby you will join us, or attend remotely if you are not.
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Topics:
Anne Laure Bandle,
Irina Tarsis,
Saskia Hufnagel,
Events,
UNESCO,
ARCA,
Center for Art Law,
Leiden University,
Borel & Barbey,
Giuseppe Calabi,
Sunna Altnoder,
Louise Malécot,
Stefano Manacorda,
Universitá Luigi Vantivelli,
Tess Davis,
Antiquities Coalition,
Alessandra Donati,
University of Milan Bicocca,
Toshiyuki Kono,
Kyushu University,
Marc Balcells,
Marco Colacurci,
Lynda Albertson,
Association for Research on Crimes Against Art,
Rena Neville,
Corinth Consulting Ltd.,
Arianna Visconti,
Universitá Cattolica del Sacro Cuore,
Umit Turksen,
Coventry University,
Anna Mosna,
Erika Bochereau,
CINOA,
Riccardo Ercole Omodel,
University of Palermo,
Eugenio Fusco,
Milan Public Prosecutor,
Guido Carlo Alleva,
Giuseppe Catalano,
Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A.,
Antonella Crippa,
Intesa Sanpaolo,
Palazzo Visconti,
University Oberta de Catalunya,
University of Sydney
I was honored to be among the speakers this week at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on March 5, 2024. Convened by the World Jewish Restitution Organization and the U.S. State Department, the event announced the Best Practices for the Washington Conference Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art (available here), and a report (available here) by the WJRO on the status of restitution progress worldwide. The Best Practices were a collaboration by the network of Special Envoys on Holocaust issues, in recognition of the 25th anniversary of the Washington Conference Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art in 1998.
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Topics:
Washington Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art,
1998 Washington Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets,
WJRO,
State Department,
Leiden University,
Stuart Eizenstat,
Claims Conference,
Antony J. Blinken,
Gideon Taylor,
Colette Avital,
Michael Herzog,
Ellen Germain,
Dr. Wesley Fisher,
Dr. Ruth J. Weinberger,
Prof. Dr. Meike Hopp,
Technische Universität Berlin,
Lord Eric Pickles,
Prof. Leora Bilsky,
Tel Aviv University,
Dr. Evelien Campfens
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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Topics:
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
