Want to learn about Nazi looted art and provenance research? This document - a court filing - will introduce you to the reality behind the slick press releases and PR. Count the false provenances. List the delay and blocking tactics. www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/u... #provenance #artlaw
Framing the Christian supremacists’ attack on American democracy as a groundswell of support is journalistic malpractice (Also mischaracterizes the content of the @economist.com article) Meanwhile, women in #Texas are dying of untreated #pregnancy complications. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Meanwhile, supposedly serious publications like @economist.com are going with the sexy clickbait titles Cc: @spignal.bsky.social #peptide #rfk
What, from a crime prosecution perspective, is the difference between ”did not adequately assess the risks” (EU report) and a formulation like deliberately-addicted-teens-for-profit-despite-known-harms (not in EU report)? ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Sometimes, simply drawing by hand the relations can be clarifying #provenance #networks
People don’t want them. Seems like that should matter. In a democracy. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Trust needs to be earned. With serious reporting using up-to-date stats. www.wired.com/story/how-pe...
De Standaard trails artwork looted from a Jewish collector through many pathways to Canada. See: Belgium sold looted art: a painting by Coecke van Aelst has been recovered in Canada ❌ Red Flag names Yves Perdoux and Theo Hermssen www.standaard.be/media-en-cul... #provenance #museum
The internet archive seems to be really struggling to preserve Metropolitan Museum of Art information for certain items In the past couple of months. Archiving that worked before now seems to be hitting some kind of wall www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #archives #museum #provenance
Pentagon hires convicted Jan. 6 rioter for sensitive counterterrorism job www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... #law #terrorism #ruleoflaw #Hegseth
Front page NYT paper version: Trump Cuts Off Life Necessities for Immigrants: Even Legal Immigrants. More articles like this on the front page please, alongside a recap (every day) of this individual’s insane rants. Let’s see the horrific policies together with who’s making them.
An artist (or journalist) could make an evocative exploration of the abject failure of our press simply by juxtaposing NYT, WSJ and other front pages with Trump insane ravings on Truth Social.
”Raise eyebrows” “Family says” Day after day can’t tell if its Pitchbot or the original.
Not a joke. Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio, Mike Johnson and Donald Trump www.washingtonpost.com/religion/202...
If only. Claimants are up against billionaires. www.lootedart.com/XTWLE9544361
Don’t even ask if it can happen here. (Yes. The answer is yes.) www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Thank you @forbes.com ! Forbes is one of the few prestige media to inform the public about Trump’s insane posts. www.forbes.com/sites/maryro... Would be great if the rest of the media informed the public. #journalisl
#art #historians and #legal scholars who really want to understand the kind of tactics powerful art collectors and museums use against claimant families—study court documents like this one in the Modigliani restitution case news.artnet.com/app/news-upl... #provenance #law
‘Hegseth Cites Falsehood’ #NYT almost gets there! (The word is ‘lies’) #headlines #Orwell
‘One of Allen’s main priorities, she added, was clearly his faith. In addition to attending church every week, he was a regular at the fellowship’s Bible study sessions’
Trump admin is trying to force a university to hand over a list of Jews? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/u...