Events

Past Events

	From Robbery to Rescue: The Restitution of a Gustav Klimt Masterpiece October 26, 2011 New York, New York Sotheby’s 1334 York Avenue, New York City
	New Dimensions in Art Recovery November 16, 2011 New York, New York Herrick Feinstein LLP’s New York Office 2 Park Avenue 14th Floor
	Art and Antiquities Law – a Study Forum Saturday 26th November 2011 London INSTITUTE OF ART AND LAW Pentre Moel, Crickadarn, Nr Builth Wells, Powys, LD2 3BX, United Kingdom
	HOLOCAUST ART RESTITUTION SYMPOSIUM PRESENTED BY CHRISTIE’S AND UNION INTERNATIONALE DES AVOCATS (UIA) June 23, 2011 Palazzo Turati, Milan
	Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law: Conference - Human Rights and Cultural Heritage: from the Holocaust to the Haitian Earthquake March 31, 2011 New York, NY Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, 55 Fifth Avenue
	Arts Law Colloquium Series - Jennifer Kreder - Judicial Amnesia and the Historical Record in Nazi-looted art litigation Wednesday, March 9, 2011 Chicago, IL DePaul University, Lewis Center - Rm 805 25 E Jackson Blvd
	Book Discussion with Melissa Muller and Monika Tatzkow Monday, November 8th, 2010 New York, New York Neue Galerie New York
	Sotheby's Symposium October 18, 2010 Vienna, Austria
	"Restitution: New cases and results of latest research within Austria and its neighbouring countries" October 14, 2010 London, UK Institute of Art and Law
	Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín “We Will Sing to the Nazis What We Cannot Say to Them” Wednesday, October 6, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. Washington, DC The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
	Conference: Restitution - Where Now? May 4, 2010 London, UK National Gallery
	Art Restitution in Austria Conference March 4-5, 2010 New York, New York Austrian Consulate
	Conference on the Governance of Cultural Property: Preservation and Recovery September 29-30, 2009 Basel, Switzerland
	Prague Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets June 26-30, 2009 Prague, Czech Republic Prague and Terezín
	Conference of the International Union of Attorneys: Art and the Law May 7-9, 2009 Málaga, Spain Picasso Museum
	Provenance Research and CAJM Leadership: Not an Option, An Imperative February 4, 2009 New York, New York
	Taking Responsibility -- Nazi-looted Art -- a challenge for libraries, archives, and museums December 11-12, 2008 Berlin, Germany
	Plundering of Artworks: Acknowledging and Compensation September 14-15, 2008 Paris, FR
	State Immunity, Anti-Seizure and Customary International Law July 17-18, 2008 London, UK
	Spoils of War v. Cultural Heritage February 8-9, 2008 Cambridge, Massachusetts Harvard Law School

The Commission for Art Recovery helps to provide opportunities for attorneys, academics, and interested professionals to discuss best practices in the efforts to spur restitution. We organize, co-sponsor and participate in national and international lectures and conferences.

In late June 2009, just a little more than ten years after the Washington Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets, representatives of 46 nations met in Prague, Czech Republic, to discuss developments, changes and recommendations on how to meet the challenges of recovering art and cultural objects looted during the time from Hitler's rise in 1933 to the end of World War II. Holocaust education and remembrance were also prime subjects at the conference, as were immovable assets. The US Delegation was chaired by Stuart Eizenstat and the Commission for Art Recovery's counsel; his remarks are provided in a link at the left. Charles A. Goldstein, chaired a session (Sunday morning, June 28, 2009) on Legal Issues featuring experts from Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.

The Prague Conference issued two statements that can be read on its website: the Joint Declaration and the Terezín Declaration athttp://www.holocausteraassets.eu/press/press-releases/. The conference's website provides many official documents; we are adding texts of several speakers' talks.

In February 2008, Harvard Law School hosted a two-day symposium on the subject of spoils of war and the legal framework of Russian cultural property. The participants explored the historical context and legal grounds for claims in favor of and against using art works and other cultural heritage objects as items for compensation in-kind. The event was open to the public.

Representatives of the Commission for Art Recovery also participated in meetings in Paris and in Berlin and helped plan a symposium sponsored by the Institute of Art and Law in London in June 2008. Such gatherings are important for the exchange of developments and ideas. In October 2010, the Commission for Art Recovery helped to support a moving performance at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, of "Defiant Requiem."