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| D. Paul Schafer on Shifting to the Cultural Age and his book, The Great Cultural Awakening | 01 Sep 2024 | 01:10:16 | |
To learn more, please visit the World Culture Project and read about D. Paul Schafer's most recent book, The Great Cultural Awakening 0:00 Schafer quotes Gurte: “live in the whole , the good and the beautiful” 2:15 background 7:50 Ontario Arts Council 8:15 Arts Administration and Cultural Policy graduate program at York University 8:45 freelancer-UNESCO, Canadian Dep’t of External Affairs 9:25 publications predicated on argument that it’s time to shift from Economic Age to Cultural Age 9:50 creation of the World Culture Project 16:40 Culture: Beacon of the Future (1998) 18:10 AI impact 18:45 Geoffrey Hinton’s concerns over AI 20:50 Revolution or Renaissance: Making the Transition from an Economic Age to a Cultural Age (2008) 24:25 The World as Culture: Cultivation of the Soul to the Cosmic Whole (2022) 30:05 The Great Cultural Awakening: Key to an Equitable, Sustainable and Harmonious Age (2024) 42:30 future leaders should have backgrounds in the arts and culture sector 46:50 Feedback received about The Great Cultural Awakening 48:00 excerpt from The Great Cultural Awakening’s chapter titled Tale of Two Ages that references Charles Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities 53:00 the power of art to address social injustice 1:00:00 definition of justice 1:02:20 Cultural Historian Johan Huizinga, author of The Waning of the Middle Ages 1:04:20 legacy 1:06:40 future projects Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| Dr. Andres Guadamuz on IP in the AI Age: Exploring Copyright, Authorship, and Future Regulations | 04 Aug 2024 | 01:00:42 | |
Show notes: 1:20 background and work in IP law and technology 2:20 blog article, “What can internet history teach us?” 3:25 IP issues emerging in the age of AI 5:10 inevitability of AI 6:40 global regulation of AI 8:25 Emily Gould - which body would handle global regulation of AI 11:00 Council of Europe’s adoption of first AI international treaty 11:50 Gould - UK proposal to expand text and data mining exception to cover commercial uses 14:55 transparency issues 18:40 Gould - response - need for legislation 20:20 authorship question 21:40 THJ Systems v. Sheridan (THJ Systems Ltd. v. Sheridan [2023] EWCA Civ 1354, [2024] E.C.D.R. 4, CA, 20 November 2023) is of great interest because it confirms the test for originality in copyright law in the UK after Brexit. 22:55 Li v. Liu, Case Number: (2023) Jing 0491 Min Chu No. 11279, Beijing Internet Court, 27 November 2023 25:00 NFTs 25:30 Thaler v. Perlmutter and USCO, USCA Case #23-5233 29:30 continued utility of copyright 32:40 AI copyright suits in the US 36:30 cultural impact of AI models’ accelerated training capabilities 38:20 view of whether there is a future for careers in art 42:50 tools like spawning.ai for artists’ protections 43:00 opt ins versus opt outs 43:50 technological protections like Glaze and Nightshade 45:15 difficulty of implementing opt ins 47:45 injustices in the AI age and definition of justice 50:33 mark that Andres hopes to make with his work 53:40 Stefania Salles-Bruins - IP protection for AI software and outputs Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| Attorney Sanjay Sethi Discusses Artistic Freedom Initiative's Work, Oppression of the Arts and Cultural Sectors Globally & the Need for Pluralistic Discourse | 18 Feb 2024 | 00:55:07 | |
Cover image by Nosrat Tarighi of Sanjay Sethi at an AFI event entitled Revolutions and Movements Show Notes: 2:00 overview of Sethi’s background and work as Founding Partner of Sethi & Mazaheri, LLC and Co-Executive Director of Artistic Freedom Initiative (AFI) Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| Fighting Artist Arthur Szyk: Szyk Expert Irvin Ungar on Social Justice, Historical Justice and the Artist's Role | 11 Jul 2021 | 01:49:38 | |
Please visit the website devoted to Arthur Szyk to learn more. 3:00 Ungar’s introduction to Szyk 10:15 Byron Sherwin’s involvement with creating a solo show Justice Illuminated: The Art of Arthur Szyk in Chicago with the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies 15:25 2000 Library of Congress exhibition, Artist for Freedom 21:00 2002 U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s exhibition, The Art and Politics of Arthur Szyk 25:20 Exhibitions in Poland 32:45 2008 Deutshes Historiches museum exhibition 42:00 2017 New York Historical Society exhibition Soldier In Art 50:50 Bergson Group 55:50 McCarthyism & Szyk’s Thomas Jefferson’s Oath: “I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. 1:07:15 2017 Ungar’s book Arthur Szyk: Soldier In Art won 2017 National Jewish Book Award 1:13:20 Wagner 1:22:30 Comparison of Chagall’s White Crucifixion, Picasso’s Guernica and Szyk’s De Profundis 1:30:25 Japanese Historian Rinjiro Sodei’s book illustrated with Szyk’s work, Representing Hirohito in Wartime: The Art of Arthur Szyk 1:44:45 Book in progress to list the thirty institutions that hold Szyk’s work 1:46:35 Ungar’s memoir, Reviving An Artist’s Fame: My Life With Arthur Szyk 1:48:00 Short documentaries about Szyk Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| Glance at Culture - Nelson-Atkins Museum's Provenance Specialist: MacKenzie Mallon on Nazi Looted Art, Restitution and Provenance Research | 18 Jun 2021 | 00:47:04 | |
The following is a link to the Nelson-Atkins Museum's Discriminating Thieves Exhibition. 6:20 Title of Discriminating Thieves exhibition came from correspondence by Nelson-Atkins’ first director Paul Gardner 7:30 One of the four works in the exhibition: painting by German Expressionist Emil Nolde titled Masks 8:50 Karl Buchholz held Masks for a decade until 1948 when he sent it to dealer Curt Valentin 15:00 Pitfalls of researching women 18:00 Marguerite Stern’s ownership of Jean – Francois Ducis’ 1779 Bust of Augustin Pajou 19:50 Pierre Bonnard’s Still life with Guelder Roses 21:30 Nicolas de Largillière’s Augustus the Strong – erroneously listed on property card as portrait of King Frederick of Denmark 25:00 2019 Collecting and Provenance: A Multidisciplinary Approach by Jane Milosch, Nick Pearce 25:50 German-American Provenance Research Exchange with the Smithsonian Provenance Research Initiative and Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation was a “game changer” 35:35 Guest speaker for Discriminating Thieves Exhibition was Corine Wegener, Director of the Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative 42:00 The process of provenance research is never finished as new resources become available 44:30 Importance of research in museum setting by individuals with specialized knowledge 46:30 Cincinnati Art Museum’s exhibition Paintings, Politics and the Monuments Men: The Berlin Masterpieces in America 47:30 Nelson-Atkins’ first curator of European Art Patrick Kelleher was one of the signatories of the Weisbaden Manifesto Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| Victoria and Albert Museum's Provenance and Spoliation Curator: Dr. Jacques Schuhmacher on Provenance Research, Art Restitution and the Role of Museums | 13 Jun 2021 | 01:07:58 | |
Below is the email for Dr. Jacques Schuhmacher: SHOW NOTES 3:30 importance of provenance research regarding potential for Nazi-looted art in collections outside of countries that had been occupied by the Nazis 7:35 provenance gaps in Gilbert Collection didn’t raise concerns when the Gilberts were acquiring the collection; 9:40 Nazi-looted art found in U.S. collections in the 1990s, making this an issue for the international art market 10:55 Unclear provenance of snuffbox from Gutmann Collection 15:50 massive red flags raised by some objects like the Louis XVI enameled gold snuffbox looted from Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild 18:30 Decisions about restitution of looted art are not made by UK museums but by a panel of experts 19:45 The only restitution to date by the V&A has been of Meissen pieces. 22:05 even after Monuments Men joined the museum, an unbroken chain in provenance was not necessary; acquisition protocol in the U.K. didn’t change until 1998 23:40 Deaccession laws in the UK under the Heritage Act were changed with the U.K.’s Holocaust Act 2009 35:30 no claims for works in the Gilbert Collection 37:35 Victoria & Albert Musuem’s Concealed Histories. 38:38 Magdala1868 exhibition of Ethiopian cultural objects inspired V&A’sConcealed Histories. 41:35 MacKenzie Mallon with the Nelson-Atkins Museum had put on the Discriminating Thieves exhibition, which was a huge inspiration for V&A’s Concealed Histories. 42:50 Provenance research into Nazi-looted art detached from other types of provenance research 44:45 Ethiopian Embassy negotiations for return of objects looted during Colonial era 45:00 Long-term loans used to return work that is subject to deaccession laws; example being long term loan of silver item stolen during church festival in Spain 46:45 In 1999, discovered that V&A had bought in 1950s a silver item without realizing it was stolen in the 1890s in Spain; object has been on long-term loan since 2005 48:25 Gilbert collection is on 100+ years long term loan 50:00 Museum Association guidelines for restitution claims being updated 51:15 Virtual loans 52:49 Notion of digital restitution 54:30 upcoming provenance research handbook for researchers in English-speaking countries 57:30 idea of a mega-website arose from the 1998 Washington Conference to allow cross-referencing to identify objects 58:35 no replacement for archival research 1:01:50 provenance research includes newly acquired objects, loaned objects and objects for which questions are raised 1:05:15 He studied history and did PhD in German/Allied war crimes then worked at London’s Commission for Looted Art 1:07:50 Student inquiries about provenance research welcome Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| Glance at Culture - The Holocaust in Modern Art: Professor Ziva Amishai-Maisels on Artists Picasso, Chagall, Rothko, Bacon and more | 21 May 2021 | 01:03:51 | |
To view available rewards for supporting the podcast, please visit Warfare's Patreon page. 3:55 Marc Chagall's Passion imagery led the way for other artists 8:00 Lea Grundig 9:30 Francis Bacon 12:20 Mark Rothko 15:15 Picasso 20:05 Robert Morris 22:55 Jean Fautrier 25:25 Naftali Bezem; Igael Tumarkin 27:35 Lea Grundig 32:25 Hans Grundig 32:50 Zoran Music 35:45 Artists in Terezin: Bedrich Fritta and Leo Hassin 44:00 Sculptors Jacques Lipschitz and Leonard Baskin 52:20 Artists not in Holocaust who integrated Holocaust iconography 55:45 Anselm Kiefer 56:55 Death Fugue by Holocaust survivor Paul Celan 58:00 Kiefer’s Margarethe and Shulamith series Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| Institute of Art & Law: Alexander Herman & Emily Gould on Restitution, the Holocaust, Copyright, NFTs and Benin Bronzes | 16 May 2021 | 01:14:06 | |
The following are links for more information about the Institute of Art and Law and the LLM program. 3:05 Alexander Herman discusses the Institute of Art and Law’s beginning in 1995 4:40 IAL founded by Norman Palmer and Ruth Redmond-Cooper 5:15 IAL mission 7:15 Emily Gould discusses growth of art law 9:20 online courses 10:05 Diploma in Art Profession Law and Ethics; next beginning online 5 June 2021 11:45 Diploma in Law and Collections Management 12:15 Diploma in IP and Collections 13:25 Art as Security Seminar 13:50 Restitution Dialogues 16:30 Blog 16:50 Herman’s blog post on Copyright in America 18:10 Cariou v. Prince 20:55 Marano v Metropolitan Museum of Art 23:00 Herman’s transformation of cover art from Supertramp’s 1979 album 26:10 Gould's blog on Benin Bronzes 35:50 Museums and the Holocaust, Second Edition 37:35 UK Holocaust Act 46:14 Topics covered in Art Antiquity and Law Journal 51:05 Art, Business and Law LLM 57:45 Conflicts and compliments of art and law 1:00:45 NFTs 1:07:00 Smart contracts for NFTs 1:08:00 impact of art law and culture 1:12:15 IAL speaks to justice by informing the public of the complexities within art law matters Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| Glance at Culture - Painter/Poet Marc Chagall | 14 May 2021 | 00:03:26 | |
The following are links to the Art History School's Chagall video and to the trailer for Flying Lovers. Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| Glance at Culture - The Rothko Chapel | 07 May 2021 | 00:03:13 | |
Here are links for more information on The Rothko Chapel and for the film trailer on The Rothko Chapel. Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| Glance at Culture - Cocktails with a Curator's Discussion of Lady Meux | 30 Apr 2021 | 00:03:51 | |
Cocktails with a Curator's episode on Lady Meux can be viewed here. Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| Glance at Culture - 2ND Saturday Art + Justice Online Gatherings Announcement | 23 Apr 2021 | 00:01:43 | |
Second Saturday Art + Justice is an offering from the non-profit Art Haus for Justice. Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| Glance at Culture - Toyland | 16 Apr 2021 | 00:01:57 | |
Link for Toyland. Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| Dr. Elizabeth White and Dr. Joanna Sliwa discuss their book, The Counterfeit Countess: the Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust | 04 Feb 2024 | 00:57:14 | |
Show Notes: Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| Art Researcher Nathan Diament On the Legacy of Artist J.D. Kirszenbaum (1900-1954) | 11 Apr 2021 | 00:49:04 | |
To view the works of J.D. Kirszenbaum, please visit the website created by Mr. Diament and please follow this link to see a presentation from Nathan Diament on the life and work of Kirszenbaum. 04:30 Kirszenbaum’s work in Belgium after World War II 07:00 Israeli Museum Curator’s belief Kirszenbaum’s legacy should not die 07:40 Prof. Ziva Amishai-Maisels’ encouragement of Diament’s research 08:30 Art Loss Register and Kandinsky Library at Centre Pompidou 09:15 600 of Kirszenbaum’s works burned during World War II 10:30 Baroness Alix de Rothschild’s assistance 11:20 Tel Aviv Museum’s works by Kirszenbaum 12:00 Dutch Artist Paul Lindgreen, a student of Kirszenbaum’s 12:20 Frans Hals Museum in Holland 13:50 Approximately 200 of Kirszenbaum’s works located 14:20 Israeli Exhibition of Kirszenbaum’s work in 2013 16:30 Baroness Alix de Rothschild’s assistance 19:20 Book J.D. Kirszenbaum (1900-1954) The Lost Generation 21:00 Croatian exhibition of Kirszenbaum’s work 22:00 Dutch Artist Paul Lindgreen, a student of Kirszenbaum’s 23:30 German exhibition of Kirszenbaum’s work 24:00 French exhibition of Kirszenbaum’s work upcoming 25:00 Kirszenbaum’s works about the Messiah and the Prophets 26:00 Tel Aviv Museum; Kirszenbaum’s Self Portrait with Cubism 26:55 Kirszenbaum’s caricatures in Germany during the world wars 28:00 Kandinsky Library at the Pompidou Center 30:00 Baroness Alix de Rothschild’s assistance 34:45 Influences of Kandisky and Klee 35:55 Horseman of the Apocalypse 36:20 Kirszenbaum’s emancipation 37:00 Chagall’s life and sources similar to Kirszenbaum’s 42:40 Felix Nussbaum and Royal Museum of Belgium’s letter about Nussbaum 44:40 S.S. St. Louis 46:40 Baroness Alix de Rothschild commission of Prophets Triptych (Elias, Jeremiah, Moses) 50:00 Diament’s membership with Yad Vashem’s Commission of the Just Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| Glance at Culture - In Every Generation: Remaking The Szyk Haggadah | 09 Apr 2021 | 00:03:51 | |
The link to In Every Generation: Remaking the Szyk Haggadah is here. Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| Glance at Culture - Law 101 for Dealers in Art and Antiquities | 02 Apr 2021 | 00:02:21 | |
Here is the link to the Institute of Art & Law's Law 101 for Dealers in Art and Antiquities Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| Glance at Culture - Nuremberg Prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz | 26 Mar 2021 | 00:02:59 | |
To learn more, please visit the links to the documentary short featuring Mr. Ferencz and to the website for Mr. Ferencz. Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| Glance at Culture - The $50 Million Art Swindle | 19 Mar 2021 | 00:03:51 | |
The following is a link for more on The $50 Million Art Swindle. Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| Artists' Rights, Heirs' Rights, Human Rights & Animal Rights: An Overview with Barrister Alan Robertshaw | 15 Mar 2021 | 00:58:32 | |
To view rewards available for support of the podcast, please visit Warfare's Patreon page. Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| Glance at Culture - Benin Bronzes | 12 Mar 2021 | 00:02:34 | |
The following are links to the Art Angle Podcast episodes' first and second episodes that feature Dan Hick's discussion of the Benin Bronzes and his book, The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence, and Cultural Restitution. Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| Glance at Culture - Ghosts of the Third Reich | 05 Mar 2021 | 00:04:03 | |
The following is a link to a trailer for Ghosts of the Third Reich. Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| Glance at Culture - Guernica | 26 Feb 2021 | 00:03:25 | |
The following is a link to the Great Art Explained video about Guernica: Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| Glance at Culture - Fireflies in the Dark: The Story of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and the Children of Terezin | 19 Feb 2021 | 00:04:17 | |
Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| Researcher Chiara Gallo on Influencer Advertising & Art - A 2ND Saturday Conversation | 21 Jan 2024 | 00:51:10 | |
Show Notes: Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| Mosse Art Restitution Project: Director of Investigations J. Eric Bartko On the Washington Principles and Restitution Efforts In Poland, Israel, Russia and the Netherlands | 15 Feb 2021 | 01:42:31 | |
The following is a link to the Mosse Art Restitution Project. Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| Glance at Culture - Der Kaiser von Atlantis | 12 Feb 2021 | 00:03:25 | |
The following is a link to the opera Der Kaiser von Atlantis. Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| Glance at Culture - Phoenix | 05 Feb 2021 | 00:02:34 | |
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| Glance at Culture - Brundibár | 29 Jan 2021 | 00:04:03 | |
The following is a link to the children's opera Brundibár performed in Czech. Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| Glance at Culture - No Night So Dark One Family's Story of Memory Stolen and Regained | 22 Jan 2021 | 00:05:19 | |
The following is a link to the event scheduled to take place on the 25th of January 2021. Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| Glance at Culture - the Hare with Amber Eyes | 15 Jan 2021 | 00:03:01 | |
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| Max Stern Art Restitution Project: Dr. Willi Korte On Restitution of Nazi-Looted Art, Sales Under Duress, and the German Advisory Commission | 14 Jan 2021 | 01:01:30 | |
Please visit the websites of the Max Stern Art Restitution Project and the Stern Cooperation Project to learn more. Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| Glance at Culture - Transit | 08 Jan 2021 | 00:02:59 | |
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| Glance at Culture - The Art Dealer | 01 Jan 2021 | 00:02:59 | |
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| Chasing Portraits: Author and Filmmaker Elizabeth Rynecki on the Legacy of Warsaw-Based Artist Moshe Rynecki (1881/1885 – 1943) | 14 Dec 2020 | 00:38:27 | |
Please visit the Moshe Rynecki website to view his work. Show Notes: 2:50 Moshe Rynecki is likened to an ethnographer and documented similar scenes that Roman Vishniac photographed 4:00 three surviving studies from Moshe’s time in the Warsaw Ghetto 5:00 Yehudit Shendar from Yad Vashem 8:00 Archives of Emanuel Ringelblum from the Warsaw Ghetto 9:15 Moshe’s decision to stay in Warsaw Ghetto to be with his people 13:30 Moshe hid 800 artworks;120 of the surviving artworks are with the Ryneckis 15:08 Warsaw’s Jewish Historical Institute has 52 works 15:14 Private collectors of Moshe’s work are in Canada, Israel, the U.S. and France 15:30 How the Jewish Historical Institute acquired the 52 works by Moshe in its collection 17:00 Restitution issues and historical justice 24:00 Artworks are also survivors with a story 25:00 Elizabeth Rynecki’s decision to author a book and create a film with this story 27:00 Elizabeth’s advice on seeking lost art: persistence and a sense of practicality 29:20 Books recommended by Elizabeth, including Landscape with Smoke Stacks: The Case of the Allegedly Plundered Degas that relates to a restitution case involving Simon Goodman 35:20 Poland’s approach to restitution Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| Anthropologist and Author Dr. Giovanni Ercolani on Artists in Ukraine Who Are Preserving the Spirit of Maidan | 07 Jan 2024 | 01:06:54 | |
To learn more, please have a look at Dr. Ercolani's book, The Maidan Museum: Preserving the Spirit of Maidan. Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| Nazi Plundered Art: Miriam Friedman Morris On the Legacy of Artist and Activist David Friedmann (1893-1980) | 16 Nov 2020 | 01:44:28 | |
Cover art: 1922 painting by David Friedmann. To learn more, please visit David Friedmann's site, view his 1920s portraits, and more: Show Notes: 2:20 born in 1893 in Austria-Hungary 6:40 Lodz Ghetto then Auschwitz 11:20 Lodz Ghetto Chronicle header - Lodz Ghetto Bridge sketch 12:30 Austrian Writer Oskar Rosenfeld wrote about Friedmann 13:40 Jewish Museum in Prague 14:00 Auschwitz Museum donation of Polish prisoner portrait 18:40 Berlin’s Centrum Judaicum Synagogue exhibited Polish Prisoner sketch 20:30 1943 sketches of hat factory survived 23:00 Researcher Eva Wiater located album with 33 colorized drawings at Jewish Historical Institute 37:00 Artwork surfaced in France marked with number that indicates auction 38:50 Buffalo, New York gallery gifted Friedman works 44:00 claimed 800 missing works in restitution claims - 2,000 actually missing 48:00 rebuilt life in U.S. - created billboards 49:00 Czech exhibition in 1946 - met second wife, Hildegard Taussig 52:52 Holocaust paintings 1945-1946 - Palestine office purchased some - 1947 Palestine tour 53:15 During D.C. Jewish Holocaust Survivior’s Conference in 1983, Miriam learned seven are held by Yad Vashem and three are at Holocaust History Museum 55:00 Etching by Friedmann dedicated to his violin teacher located 1:04:00 Long Island chess player’s heirs donated some of Friedmann’s chess portraits to Cleveland Public Library 1:05:00 2009 Holocaust Era Assets Conference Panel in Prague 1:07:30 two Holocaust series 1:10:00 Sudeten Germans in Western Bohemia's use of Holocaust series for ration cards 1:19:00 1962 returned to Holocaust paintings 1:27:00 Drawings of Prague Jewish Community leaders donated to Yad Vashem 1:29:00 Album of portraits exchanged between friends Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| The Orpheus Clock: Art Researcher and Author Simon Goodman On Nazi-Looted Art, the Gutmann Collection, the HEAR Act, the Washington Principles, Provenance Research and Dutch Restitution Policy | 19 Oct 2020 | 00:56:51 | |
For more information, please have a look at The Orpheus Clock by Simon Goodman. 3:00 Simon Goodman’s background that led to writing The Orpheus Clock 4:30 Location of first looted painting in Chicago in 1995 led to first restitution suit in U.S. 7:00 Nazi inventories and handwritten note by Gutmann gave evidence of looted works; works were sent for safekeeping in Switzerland, the Netherlands and the U.S. 10:30 Anne Webber’s documentary about the Gutmann story, Making a Killing 17:00 Post-war, claimants were required to file individual claimants; Goodman’s father, for example, filed over 1,000 individual claims with the Dutch government 20:00 Goodman’s senate judiciary testimony to extend the statute of limitations for restitution claims; issues that make locating works difficult include change of dimensions, titles, attributions, etc. 24:00 Avoiding litigation in favor of negotiations 30:00 6-7 successful restitutions from Dutch Committee with one pending and a claim to be filed against a museum in the Hague 32:00 Goodman’s complaints to Dutch Committee about its change of direction to deny claimants based on revisionist thinking that museums have feelings and care about what’s in storage; and adoption of the concept of good and bad heirs 35:00 Right of inheritance and right to private property are international principles that should be observed 39:00 Potential claims for return of Goodman’s family home Bosbeek; expectation that one in a concentration camp was still expected to pay their mortgage and property taxes; and government refusal to re-write laws to address these types of injustices 41:00 Shares of the bank that the family founded in Germany 42:00 Simon focuses on the art because searching for beautiful thinks makes the search tolerable compared with searching for the missing insurance policies 43:00 Impediments to heirs include lack of evidence 49:00 The Orpheus Clock was used as the title of the book because of its symbolism on many levels, including that it was the first direct restitution from a German official body 51:00 Restitution for Simon’s grandmother’s fur coats 52:00 Restitution of Orpheus Clock triggered need to revive family trust and to create compact with remaining cousins, which helped to restore familial relationships broken by the Holocaust Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| "Real" Artists Pursuing the Law: Artists from North America to Africa on the Study of Law, the Practice of Law and the Work of the Artist | 01 Oct 2020 | 02:00:25 | |
The following are links for Jerry Alonzo, Andrew Smith, Taylor Cobb, and Conner Reddan. Show Notes: Legal and Arts Careers 1:45 Lutswata Enid 8:50 Taylor Cobb 24:45 Conner Reddan 38:00 Andrew Smith 47:50 Jerry Alonzo Defining Justice and Identifying Social Justice Issues 1:19:00 Lutswata Enid 1:23:00 Conner Reddan 1:27:00 Taylor Cobb 1:36:00 Andrew Smith Perseverance and Mapping Injustice 1:54:45 Taylor Cobb 1:55:35 Jerry Alonzo Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| Monuments Men and Women Foundation: Anna Bottinelli On World War II, Restitution, the Italian Carabinieri Cultural Heritage Protection Unit and the Weisbaden Manifesto | 26 Aug 2020 | 00:34:48 | |
To learn more, please visit the Monuments Men and Women Foundation's website. Show Notes: 3:00 348 professionals including architects, librarians and curators comprised the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Organization known as the Monuments Men 4:00 Robert Edsel’s founded of the Monuments Men Foundation 4:40 Foundation’s initial mission to locate living Monuments Men, record their stories and honor their legacies; 2015 ceremony to award Congressional Gold Medal to Monuments Men 6:15 Foundation’s mission includes locating and returning objects looted during World War II; to date, over 38 objects have been located and returned 7:00 Foundation’s archives given to the National World War II Museum; Museum to open a Monuments Men Gallery 10:00 Foundation’s mission includes raising awareness about the importance of preserving cultural heritage in all countries; membership program launching soon 11:00 Foundation also conducts provenance research 14:00 Foundation’s website features top 15 looted works still missing from World War II 17:00 Foundation’s alliance with Italian Carabinieri Cultural Heritage Protection Unit 23:00 Foundation’s return of objects includes to German museums and individuals 24:30 Foundation’s quarterly newsletter 25:00 Foundation’s return of Italian books 26:00 Foundation’s return of paintings to South German gallery 28:45 Significance of the Wiesbaden Manifesto 33:00 Foundation’s education programs Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| Nazi Looted Art in the Netherlands: Author Janet Berg On Her Debut Novel, Rembrandt's Shadow, Nazi-Looted Art and Dutch Restitution Policy | 28 Jul 2020 | 00:33:31 | |
To learn more, please visit Janet Berg's website. 3:30 Katz Gallery targeted by Nazis as of 1938/39. 4:00 Katz family’s survival based on a Rembrandt painting 6:30 Bergs hired Lynn Nicholas, author of Rape of Europa, to research art looted from Katz Gallery 8:45 Rembrandt’s Portrait of Raman was exchanged with Nazis for 25 Jewish lives, returned by Dutch Government and donated to the L.A. County Museum 10:30 Characters in Rembrandt’s Shadow based on family 12:45 Family became aware of location of looted paintings when visiting Dutch museum 15:00 manifestations of trauma 20:00 Family escaped to Jamaican internment camp 25:30 Katz Gallery’s inventory meant for Führermuseum in Linz and for Göring 27:00 Family is seeking return of 144 paintings from Dutch Government 28:00 Dutch Government possesses paintings looted from Katz Gallery 29:00 Nazis gave appearance of legitimacy to sales by Katz Gallery 31:15 Berg’s second book, Restitution Katz Gallery History: Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| Nazi Looted Art: The Gurlitt Art Trove | 28 Jun 2020 | 00:14:37 | |
This episode focuses on Nazi art dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt, recent findings about the history of the art he held, and ongoing efforts to return Nazi-looted art found in his collection, which was in the possession of his son, the late Cornelius Gurlitt. 1:30 Hildebrand Gurlitt exhibited modern artists, including German Expressionists 2:30 Gurlitt began work for Nazis; he gathered art for the Führermuseum and was authorized to liquidate degenerate art 4:25 Hildebrand’s son, Cornelius, inherited his father’s collection 5:20 German tax investigation led to locating approximately 1,500 works in Cornelius’ residences in Munich, Germany and Salzburg, Austria 6:20 Claim by Alfred Flechtheim’s heirs for Beckmann’s The Lion Tamer 8:00 Kunst Museum Bern inherited Gurlitt’s collection 8:30 Manet’s Ships at Sea in Stormy Weather was sold to Tokyo’s National Museum of Western Art 8:50 Gurlitt Art Find: Paths of Research 10:15 27,000 documents from Gurlitt’s estate provide unreliable information about sales 11:00 Thomas Couture’s Portrait of a Seated Woman 11:40 Paul Cezanne’s Mont Sainte-Victoire 12:20 To date, 14 looted works have been returned to heirs, including Henri Matisse’s Woman with a Fan and Max Liebermann’s Two Riders on a Beach 13:50 Questions arising from the Gurlitt Collection: how can right and wrong be so easily blurred? 15:00 Why, in the shadow of mass murder, is the stealing of art important? Because small steps of hate, like theft of a people’s culture, lead to larger steps. Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| Warfare of Art & Law - Introductory Episode | 28 Jun 2020 | 00:05:14 | |
This introductory episode discusses the true-life war stories to be shared in the coming episodes of this podcast. Each story is rooted in true events, ranging from Nazi-looted art to graffiti. Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| *Bonus* “Signs” from Elicit Justice: Conversations Off Grid | 22 Dec 2023 | 00:03:54 | |
Featuring excerpts from Episode 121, an interview with Dr. Samson Munn and musical composition by Toulme, Copyright 2023. Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| Copyright Advocate & Author David Newhoff on State Sovereign Immunity, IP, AI and Artists' Rights - A 2ND Saturday Conversation | 17 Dec 2023 | 01:07:52 | |
Cover Photo of David Newhoff by Sean Mekas Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| Dr. Samson Munn on Recovering Art by Jacob Mącznik and other School of Paris Artists, Escaping the Burden of Silence Through Dialogue, Citizenship, Israeli PM Netanyahu, the Fraught Concept of Legacy & Defining Justice | 03 Dec 2023 | 01:25:55 | |
Cover Image: Self-Portrait, oil on canvas by Jacob Mącznik. 0:00 Dr. Samson Munn discussing Van Ham art auctionhouse 1:45 Munn’s background 2:50 history of Holocaust-related dialogue with Dan Bar-On 4:00 Children of the Third Reich 4:20 Austrian dialogue group 4:35 Ghosts of the Third Reich 6:00 second group, The Encounter 7:45 Dan Bar-On’s book Fear and Hope 12:00 examples from dialogue groups 17:15 Munn’s initial motivation to start dialogue group - emotional responsibility 24:40 Munn’s dialogue work in Northern Ireland 27:25 dialogue work with descendants of displaced indigenous peoples 28:50 preparation for dialogue group facilitators 32:20 screening individuals for dialogue groups 33:45 Israeli, Polish and German citizenship 44:30 Jacob Mącznik’s work 1:00:00 Van Ham auctionhouse 1:06:00 Parisian archive research 1:11:00 Munn’s research of other artists from the Paris School 1:12:30 female artists from the Paris School 1:14:30 Mącznik catalogue raisonne 1:17:00 legacy that Munn is working to create 1:19:30 justice 1:22:30 Israeli PM Netanyahu Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| Fair Use and AI - A 2ND Saturday Exploration | 19 Nov 2023 | 00:45:09 | |
Show Notes: 0:00 Yelena Khajekian 1:30 Warhol v Goldsmith decision by SCOTUS 3:00 USCO NOI’s Question 8 4:00 Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc., 593 U.S. ___ (2021) 4:20 liability question 4:45 Emily Gould - fair use 6:30 Alan Robertshaw - Warhol court’s focus on use of the work 7:50 Khajekian - artists’ perspective on Warhol decision 9:00 Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc., 510 U.S. 569 (1994) 10:20 confusion of fair use analysis and court’s aesthetic analysis 12:00 USCO NOI’s Question about fair use 13:00 Robertshaw - UK’s fair dealing analysis 15:50 Gould - big players like Getty 17:45 text and data mining exception 20:10 Drawdy - private contracting as a solution 21:00 Robertshaw - Getty 22:15 Khajekian - conceptual art 25:55 Warhol’s 2 Cir decision 26:50 Gould & Khajekian - Richard Prince decision held not fair use 27:20 Khajekian - equity issue 28:40 Gould - UK courts’ emphasis on purpose, e.g., Stormtrooper helmet case 30:30 Drawdy - amount and substantiality of use 31:10 Gould - Australian case about Men at Work’s use of folk song Kookaburra in its pop song Down Under 32:20 Robershaw - dispute over Vanilla Ice’s Ice Ice Baby 33:00 Ed Sheeran 34:15 Getty case pending in UK 35:00 Khajekian - international versus US issues 37:30 Robershaw - test that contemplates level of effort or end result regarding AI output 40:30 Gould - risks involved with AI 40:50 EU’s application-based approach 41:10 AI for medical applications 41:55 detecting forgeries will still require humans, e.g., conflicting AI results regarding Raphael 42:50 implicit bias in AI 43:15 dogs detecting forgeries 43:40 chickens detecting shapes Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| Glance at Culture - Martha Szabo's NYC Solo Exhibition & MSeum's Celebration of Unknown Female Artists | 05 Nov 2023 | 00:54:31 | |
Cover art: Martha Szabo, Rooftops in Snow 11, oil on linen, 24 x 35 in., circa 1964 Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| Glance at Culture - Anna D. Smith shares about Los Angeles Prisoner Artist Donald "C-Note" Hooker | 15 Oct 2023 | 00:34:30 | |
Cover art by Donald "C-Note" Hooker: top image "Cell Time" (2019); bottom image "During the Flood" (2017) Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||
| Artist in Exile: Tetiana Cheprasova Shares About Her Work as a Witness of her Time | 07 Jul 2024 | 00:59:22 | |
To learn more about Tetiana Cheprasova, please visit her page at Agency of Artists in Exile. 0:00 Tetiana Cheprasova's view of the war in Ukraine & interpreter Valentina Kostornichenko 1:30 Cheprasova's background and work in painting, photography, sculptures and graphic design 4:50 Giovanni Ercolani’s book The Maidan Museum Preserving the Spirit of Maidan. Art, Identity and the Revolution of Dignity that features Cheprasova’s paintings inspired by Caravaggio 8:00 from Cheprasova's Depassement portfolio - paintings of hands, including wounded hands signifying stigmata 10:30 Mariupol woman who inspired Cheprasova 20:40 ‘Stop Emotions’ series of 9 paintings 25:00 Cityscapes of Mariupol 29:30 sculpture that’s part of new work to depict destruction in Ukraine 34:00 Parisian architecture 35:00 consequences of war 38:00 power of art to address social injustices and the impact of war 41:00 Cheprasova's view of justice 45:40 Cheprasova’s work as art therapist 49:20 Cheprasova’s hope for viewers of her work 53:00 Giovanni Ercolani’s questions to Cheprasova 56:00 if only one person is impacted by your work, it’s worth doing 56:50 Artists as witnesses of their time Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com | |||