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

#provenance Book folks, this one is for you www.vam.ac.uk/blog/project...

National museums in the UK are hamstrung by outdated and confusing laws around restitution.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

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...

#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/...

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!

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/...

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...

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...

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...

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 -my piece from Kumasi for BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Very pleased to share that my first article is now online www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

What better way to do my 1st post than announcing this (hot off the press) publication on the state of the (future) field of the history of collecting with partners in crime @suryabowyer.com @libertypaterson.bsky.social & Niti Acharya. It’s also open access! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Nicolas Revire, my colleague on the Art Institute of Chicago's provenance research team, has written a fascinating article about his research into a 12th-century Khmer pilaster, which led to the museum's decision to return this ancient and sacred artifact to Thailand: www.artic.edu/articles/115...

I'm excited to share that, on Wednesday 17 July, John Giblin and Yvonne Brownlee will be at the Victoria and Albert Museum to talk about the Rematriation of the House of Ni'isjoohl Memorial Pole from National Museums Scotland to the Nisga'a Nation: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rematriati...

Only one week left to apply for the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage research placement at the V&A! This opportunity is open to students on a funded PhD programme, not just in the UK but also internationally. Please share the word! More info: vam.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...

I am very happy to announce that my new book has officially been published with UCL Press! You can download it for free from: uclpress.co.uk/products/238... . I hope you’ll find this guide useful. Please do let me know what you think about it!

It is my pleasure to share Shreya Gupta's articles about her Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) provenance research placement in the V&A's Asia Department/Research Institute, which examined the history of the South Asian Collections. www.vam.ac.uk/articles/sou...

To mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2024, the preeminent Holocaust historian Dan Stone will explore in this lecture at the V&A the psychological arguments for surviving the Nazi camps, looking at inmate physicians in Auschwitz who trained as psychoanalysts: www.vam.ac.uk/event/V0dwd3...

I'd like to share with you the Call for Papers for the conference 'The Public Country House: ‘Treasure of Quiet Beauty’ or a site for public histories?' which will take place at the V&A in May 2024: