Looted and Restituted: Matisse, Paul Rosenberg, and the Art Institute of Chicago | The Art Institute of Chicago In the final months before the outbreak of World War II, the renowned French painter Henri Matisse completed Daisies.

I'm delighted to share my colleague Meadhbh Ginnane's latest provenance article for the Art Institute website:

www.artic.edu/articles/119...

@mginna.bsky.social

Call for papers – ‘Bibliomigrancy amongst the Ruins: post-1945 Book Movement’ • V&A Blog The V&A Research Institute, the National Art Library and Archives is committed to provenance research and to exploring the lives of all the objects in our care. We are delighted to announce a conferen...

#provenance Book folks, this one is for you

www.vam.ac.uk/blog/project...

How to give back looted objects | Apollo Magazine UK museums are hamstrung by outdated laws around restitution. Tristram Hunt argues that it’s time for politicians to give them greater autonomy over their collections

National museums in the UK are hamstrung by outdated and confusing laws around restitution. Tristram Hunt, director of the V&A, argues that it’s time for politicians to give them greater autonomy over their collections

Provenance Researcher Department AI Feitler Center/Academic Initiatives About the Department As the fine arts museum of the University of Chicago, the Smart Museum of Art is a site for rigorous inquiry and exchange that en...

Post-Doctoral Researcher (within UChicago Divinity/Martin Marty Center, and in collaboration with the Smart Museum): academicjobs.uchicago.edu/positions/15...

Three amazing job opportunities at the Smart Museum, University of Chicago:

🔍 Provenance Researcher (curatorial team): uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...

💻 Project Coordinator (Feitler center team): uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...

Student curators explore ‘Alternate Paths’ with provenance research “There is no one single answer for how African art gets to Iowa. Art travels in very complex ways,” Cory Gundlach, curator of African art at the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art, said. This co...

#provenanceonview as part of a class research project on the African collections at the Stanley- particularly nice to hear from grad students in many art history fields learning about provenance together: dailyiowan.com/2025/02/11/s...

I’m delighted to share that the Art Institute of Chicago has today returned a sacred sculpture - Buddha Sheltered by the Serpent King Muchalinda - to the Government of Nepal:

chicago.suntimes.com/art/2025/03/...

If you are based in Chicago and would like to learn more about this topic, the Art Institute's Ryerson and Burnham Libraries have a wealth of materials, including the books written by the instigators of the Nazi campaign, the original exhibition guide, postcards and the latest scholarly literature.

It was great to see so much interest from visitors in the 'Degenerate Art' gallery conversation led by my Art Institute of Chicago colleague Kristen French. It was a great presentation and discussion!

Information about the University of Chicago's Master of Arts Program in the Humanities (MAPH) is available here: maph.uchicago.edu

Provenance Research | The Art Institute of Chicago The Art Institute’s wide-ranging collection is a testament to thousands of years of human creativity and artistic expression—from ancient Chinese bronzes to contemporary art and from tapestries to pho...

To learn more about the Art Institute's provenance research efforts, please visit: www.artic.edu/collection-i...

Nazi-Era Provenance of Museum Collections When we look at the artworks on display in museums, there is always a real possibility that some of these objects once belonged to victims of the Nazis – a possibility that has remained unacknowledged...

I spoke about the importance of Nazi-era provenance research, using as a case study an 18th-century pendant from the Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild Collection: uclpress.co.uk/book/nazi-er...

A Sacred Pilaster Returns Home | The Art Institute of Chicago In January 2023, I joined the provenance research team at the Art Institute, tasked with studying objects in the collection from Southeast Asia.

Nicolas Revire presented his research into the provenance of a Khmer pilaster from the 12th century: www.artic.edu/articles/115...

Tamar Kharatishvili shared her research into Pavel Tchelitchew's "Still Life, Clown," which led to new discoveries about the painting's provenance: www.artic.edu/artworks/230...

Meadhbh Ginnane discussed the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act and her work as Senior Research Associate on the Provenance Team: www.artic.edu/articles/115...

Amanda Block (a MAPH alumna!) spoke about the importance of provenance research in her role as Director of Curatorial Documentation and Research and how the Art Institute is communicating its provenance research.

We would like to thank Alexandra Fraser, Carl Fuldner, and Erica Warren from the University of Chicago for organizing today's event with us, everyone at the Art Institute who made today's event possible - and especially the students for their thoughtful questions and enthusiasm.

Today, the Art Institute of Chicago's provenance research team had the great pleasure of hosting a provenance workshop for the University of Chicago's Master of Arts Program in the Humanities.

I'd like to share Angelina Giovani-Agha's thoughtful review of my book in The Burlington Magazine.

If her review resonates with you, you can access the book for free through:
uclpress.co.uk/book/nazi-er...

If you would like to learn more about Angelina's work, please visit:
www.flynngiovani.com

My colleague Nicolas Revire will give two important lectures at Harvard University in March:

The Return of Khmer Artifacts from Chicago to Phanom Rung, Northeast Thailand: asiacenter.harvard.edu/events/retur...

Early Khmer Art Collecting in American Museums: asiacenter.harvard.edu/events/early...

Two #provenance internships for students at Princeton: artmuseum.princeton.edu/learn/partic...

The Art Institute of Chicago’s provenance research team is excited to offer a McMullan Arts Leadership internship:

recruiting2.ultipro.com/ART1010AICH/...

From Looted to Restituted: Journey of a Drawing from Paris to Chicago | The Art Institute of Chicago It is not usually the case that an artist has to hide while attempting to draw a portrait.

Excited to share my research into this eighteenth-century drawing that was looted from Maurice de Rothschild's collection in Nazi-occupied Paris. Moving from the Louvre to the Jeu de Paume to Alt Aussee, the drawing was restituted to Rothschild in 1946

www.artic.edu/articles/115...

From Looted to Restituted: Journey of a Drawing from Paris to Chicago | The Art Institute of Chicago It is not usually the case that an artist has to hide while attempting to draw a portrait.

I’d like to share a fascinating provenance article that my brilliant colleague Meadhbh Ginnane just published on the Art Institute website. @mginna.bsky.social

www.artic.edu/articles/115...

Restitution, Repair and the Memory Wars - Talk at V&A South Kensington · V&A The V&A Research Institute in collaboration with Birkbeck, University of London. Renowned Memory Studies scholar Michael Rothberg explores histories of colonial and Nazi violence, and questions of rem...

www.vam.ac.uk/event/jwGPQk...

Vielen, vielen Dank!

Nazi-Era Provenance of Museum Collections When we look at the artworks on display in museums, there is always a real possibility that some of these objects once belonged to victims of the Nazis – a possibility that has remained unacknowledged...

Publikationen aus diesem Jahr mit dem Schwerpunkt Provenienzforschung und/oder Nationalsozialismus, die sich sehr gut als Weihnachtsgeschenke anbieten:

Jacques Schuhmacher @schuhmacher.bsky.social, Nazi-Era Provenance of Museum Collections - A research guide: uclpress.co.uk/book/nazi-er...

Art Institute steps up efforts to learn the origins of everything in its collection As scrutiny increases of art stolen by Nazis or looted from archaeological sites, the museum has expanded its provenance team and hired an expert researcher from London.

I want to thank Kyle MacMillan for his thoughtful questions when he sat down with James Rondeau and me at the Art Institute of Chicago to talk about our approach to provenance research and how important this work is for museums: chicago.suntimes.com/art/2024/12/...

Ghana's Asante kingdom: Celebrating the king banished by the British to Seychelles Ghana marks 100 years since the return of a monarch exiled in Seychelles during the colonial era.

Ghana's Asante kingdom: Celebrating the king banished by the British to Seychelles -my piece from Kumasi for BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Thank you very much for putting this together. I research art looting during the Holocaust. Please feel free to add me.