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Jacques Schuhmacher
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Executive Director, Provenance Research, Art Institute of Chicago: https://www.artic.edu/collection-information/provenance-research
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I'm delighted to share my colleague Meadhbh Ginnane's latest provenance article for the Art Institute website:

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

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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.
www.artic.edu
June 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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jebarr.bsky.social
#provenance Book folks, this one is for you

www.vam.ac.uk/blog/project...
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...
www.vam.ac.uk
May 17, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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National museums in the UK are hamstrung by outdated and confusing laws around restitution.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
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UK museums are hamstrung by outdated laws around restitution.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
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March 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
schuhmacher.bsky.social
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...
March 26, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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jebarr.bsky.social
#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...
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...
dailyiowan.com
March 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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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/...
March 3, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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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!
February 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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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.
February 19, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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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
February 12, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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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...
February 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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jebarr.bsky.social
Two #provenance internships for students at Princeton: artmuseum.princeton.edu/learn/partic...
Summer Internships | Princeton University Art Museum
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February 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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The Art Institute of Chicago’s provenance research team is excited to offer a McMullan Arts Leadership internship:

recruiting2.ultipro.com/ART1010AICH/...
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January 29, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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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.
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January 14, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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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...
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.
www.artic.edu
January 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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www.vam.ac.uk/event/jwGPQk...
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
December 15, 2024 at 10:44 PM
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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...
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...
uclpress.co.uk
December 5, 2024 at 9:45 AM
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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/...
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.
chicago.suntimes.com
December 2, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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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...
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.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2024 at 7:26 AM
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Very pleased to share that my first article is now online www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Curzon’s cases: making a museum at Kedleston Hall
In 1916 Lord Curzon inherited his ancestral home, Kedleston Hall, and set about planning its renovation. Part of this work was the creation of a new museum in which to display his collection of ‘Ea...
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November 26, 2024 at 3:14 PM
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November 26, 2024 at 9:10 PM
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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/...
State of the (Future) Field: The History of Collecting and Its Institutions
This article considers the state of the field of the history of collecting and its institutions. Following on from a 2021 ‘state of the field’ article, also published in this journal, the present pie...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 22, 2024 at 12:03 PM
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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...
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.
www.artic.edu
November 24, 2024 at 3:36 PM
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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...
July 8, 2024 at 11:26 AM
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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/...
Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Placement - Cromwell Road, London
To provide opportunities for early-career training for PhD students, the V&A has made available a range of doctoral placements based in collections departments, archives, the National Art Library, res...
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June 24, 2024 at 10:56 AM
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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!
Nazi-Era Provenance of Museum Collections - UCL Press
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...
uclpress.co.uk
May 26, 2024 at 8:15 PM