Recent IFAR Evenings
THE WHO, WHAT, WHY, AND HOW
OF THE CULTURAL PROPERTY ADVISORY COMMITTEE (CPAC)
Thursday, April 17, 2008
6:00 - 8:30 p.m.
CPAC is responsible for reviewing requests by foreign governments to restrict the import into the U.S.
of certain categories of their cultural property “in jeopardy from pillage” and then recommending a course of action.
The activities of the Committee are often not understood and are occasionally controversial.
This is a rare opportunity to learn about this important committee from current and former members.
Speakers
Kate Fitz Gibbon, Editor, Who Owns the Past?; CPAC Member (2000-2003)
Patty Gerstenblith, Professor & Director, Program in Cultural Heritage Law, DePaul Univ., CPAC Member (2000-2003)
Jack A. Josephson, Egyptologist; Chairman, IFAR; Former Chairman, CPAC (1990-1995)
Jay I. Kislak, Philanthropist; Collector; Businessman; Current Chairman, CPAC (2003 - )
Martin E. Sullivan, Director, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian; Former Chairman, CPAC (1995-2003)
Nancy C. Wilkie, Professor of Classics and Anthropology, Carleton College; Former Pres., AIA; CPAC Member (2003 - )
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Are They Pollocks?
What Science Tells Us About the Matter Paintings
Richard Newman, James Martin, Pepe Karmel
Speakers
Pepe Karmel,
Chair and Associate Professor, Dept. of Art History, New York University
James Martin, Research Scientist and Principal, Orion Analytical, LLC
Richard Newman,
Head of Scientific Research, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Art Insurance: What Everyone in the Art World Needs to Know
Co-organized by IFAR and the Art Law Committee of the Association
of the Bar of the City of New York
April 12, 2007
Program Chairs and Moderators:
Dr. Sharon Flescher, Executive Director, IFAR
Amy J. Goldrich, Esq., Law Offices of Amy J. Goldrich
Howard N. Spiegler, Esq., Chairman, Art Law Committee
Panels:
Art Insurance 101 & Beyond: Understanding and Negotiating the Policy
Brendan Connell, Director and Counsel for Administration, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum & Foundation
Payce Louis, Vice President & Chief Underwriting Officer, AXA Art Insurance Corporation
Judith Pearson, President & Director, Aris Title Insurance Corporation, Inc.
Steven Pincus, Senior Vice President, Fine Art Practice Leader, DeWitt Stern Group, Inc.
Dorit Straus, Vice President & Worldwide Specialty Fine Art Manager, Chubb Group of Insurance Companies
Agreements and Disagreements: Stories from the Front Lines
Andrew Faintych, Operations Director, Atelier 4, Inc., Fine Art Shipping & Storage
John Koegel, Esq., The Koegel Group LLC
Ellen Hoener Ross, Vice President, Acordia/Wells Fargo Insurance Services
Greg Smith, G. J. Smith & Associates, Inc.
Katja Zigerlig, AIG Private Client Group, Collections Underwriting Manager
An IFAR Panel at the Fine Art Dealers Association (FADA)
Los Angeles Art Show
Friday, January 26, 2007
What Collectors and Dealers Need to Know
About Holocaust-Era Looted Art: The Legal Issues
Moderator:
Dr. Sharon Flescher, Executive Director, IFAR
Panelists:
Jessica L. Darraby, Esq., Attorney at Law, Santa Monica
Thaddeus J. Stauber, Esq., Counsel, Nixon Peabody LLP, Los Angeles
E. Randol Schoenberg, Esq., Burris & Schoenberg LLP, Los Angeles
Steven E. Thomas, Esq., Partner, Irell & Manella LLP, Los Angeles
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The Growing Problem of Fakes and Forgeries in American Art
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Speaker:
Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr.
Curator of American Art, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
Dr. Stebbins discussed problematic works by American artists and raised issues relating to
connoisseurship, authentication, and the circulation of fakes in the art market.
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An IFAR Evening with the Neue Galerie
Monday July 31, 2006
Speaker:
E. Randol Schoenberg, Esq.
on the successful eight-year battle to recover 5 Klimt paintings looted by the Nazis
from the Bloch-Bauer Collection
IFAR thanks Chubb Personal Insurance  for partial support of this program.
Hurricane Katrina and the Visual Arts
Monday December 5, 2005
Speakers:
David Preziosi, Executive Director,
Mississippi
Heritage Trust
Patricia H. Gay, Executive
Director,
Preservation
Resource
Center
of
New
Orleans
Christiane Fischer, CEO, AXA Art
Insurance Corporation
Heather Becker, CEO,
Chicago
Conservation
Center
Special thanks for this program to The Liman Foundation
and to Alliance Capital Mgt.
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A Look Back and Forward on Holocaust-Era
Art Looting and Restitution Issues
Thursday,
September 29, 2005
Speaker:
Lynn H. Nicholas
Author of The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's
Treasures
in the Third Reich and the Second World War (1994)
and
Cruel World: The Children of Europe in
the Nazi Web (2005)
The New FBI Art Crime Team
Wednesday, June 8, 2005
Speakers:
Robert K. Wittman - Special Agent and Senior Investigator, Art Crime
Team, FBI
Johanna M. Loonie - Special Agent, Art Crime Team, FBI, New York
Jane A. Levine - Ass?t U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York,
and Special Trial Counsel, FBI Art Crime Team
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Authenticity Issues in Photography
Tuesday, September 21, 2004
Speakers:
Denise Bethel - Senior VP & Director, Photographs Dept.,
Sotheby's
Peter MacGill - President, Pace/MacGill Gallery
Steven Manford - Man Ray Research Scholar
Richard L. Menschel - Collector
Paul Messier - Conservator of Photographs, Works on Paper &
Electronic Media
Peter Stern, Esq. - Of Counsel, McLaughlin & Stern, LLP
Kate Ware - Curator of Photographs, Philadelphia Museum of Art
IFAR is grateful to the
Chubb Group of Insurance Companies
for a grant in partial support of this program.
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Art Loss in Iraq
- An Update
Thursday, October 28, 2004
Speakers:
John M. Russell
Former Senior Advisor to the Ministry of Culture, Coalition Provisional
Authority, Iraq;
Chair, Critical Studies Dept., Massachusetts College of Art
and
Bonnie Burnham
President, World Monuments Fund
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Art, Gold, and Slave Labor:
The U.S. Government's Efforts on Behalf of Holocaust Victims
June 24, 2003
Stuart E. Eizenstat
Under Secretary of State and Deputy Secretary of the Treasury in the
Clinton Administration
Head, U.S. Delegation to the Washington Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets,
1998
Author: Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor, and the
Unfinished Business of World War II
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Challenges and Discoveries in the Art of Camille Pissarro:
The New Catalogue Raisonné
May 27, 2003
Joachim Pissarro and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts
Co-Authors: Forthcoming Camille Pissarro Catalogue Raisonné
Joaquim Pissarro, great-grandson of Camille Pissarro, and Claire
Durand-Ruel Snollaerts,
great-great-granddaughter of Paul Durand-Ruel, pioneering Impressionist art
dealer,
discussed their 9 years of research for the new catalogue Raisonné of
Pissarro's paintings.
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Copyright or Copywrong?
The Supreme Court, Copyright Term Extension, and The Arts
November 6, 2002
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Franklin Feldman
Chair, IFAR Law Advisory Council
Co-Author, Art Law |
Stephen
E. Weil
Emeritus Senior
Scholar
Center for Museum
Studies, Smithsonian Institution
Co-Author, Art Law
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Robert Baron
Chair, Committee on Intellectual
Property
College Art
Association |
I. Fred
Koenigsberg
White & Case LLP, NY
General Counsel, ASCAP |
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Alice
Haemmerli
Columbia Law
School
Dean, Graduate Legal
Studies and International Programs |
Left to right: F.
Feldman, S. Weil, R. Baron, A. Haemmerli, and I. F. Koenigsberg
The case of Eldred v. Ashcroft,
challenging the Constitutionality of the
1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, was argued before the
United States Supreme Court on October 9, 2002. The Act extended copyright
protection for an additional 20 years. Called the most important copyright
case
in many years, the case has split the arts community. Thirty-eight Friends
of the Court
briefs were filed for or against the Act. IFAR's five distinguished
speakers discussed
the history and issues, as well as the implications for the arts community
of the anticipated Supreme Court decision.
Beyond Connoisseurship?
The Future Study of Master Drawings
December
3, 2002
David Rosand
Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History, Columbia
University
Professor Rosand, author of Drawing
Acts: Studies in Graphic Expression and Representation
and world renowned specialist in Venetian Painting, discussed new
approaches to the study of drawings, from Old Masters to 20th Century.
Solving Puzzles, Discovering
O'Keeffe:
The Georgia O'Keeffe Catalogue Raisonné
April 24, 2002
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Barbara Buhler Lynes |
Judith Walsh |
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Author,
Georgia O'Keeffe
Catalogue Raisonné
Curator, Georgia O?Keeffe Museum
Emily Fisher Landau Director of the Museum
Research Center
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Senior Paper Conservator
National Gallery of Art, Washington
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Walsh and Lynes, 2002
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The
award-winning Georgia O'Keeffe catalogue Raisonné made headlines when it
excluded a series of watercolors that had been purchased as authentic by a
Midwestern museum. At this special IFAR Evening the scholar and conservator
involved in this publication discussed their extensive research, their
procedures, and their many discoveries.
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Jackson Pollock's Studio
Floor: Uncovering the Secrets
November 28, 2001
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Helen A. Harrison |
Francis V. O?Connor |
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Director, Pollock-Krasner
House and Study
Center |
Co-Author, Jackson
Pollock Catalogue Raisonné |
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O'Connor and Harrison, 2002
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Photo of
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This IFAR
Evening on Jackson Pollock featured videotapes never previously shown
publicly of the restoration of Pollock's East Hampton
studio and the uncovering of the studio floor that Pollock used from
1946-53. The program explored the floor's potential for studying Pollock's
working methods and the materials, techniques, and sequence of some of
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Thirty Years of the Rembrandt Research Project
Speaker: Ernst van de Wetering, Project Chairman
February 2001 |
The Rembrandt Research Project (RRP) was established in 1968 to
reexamine the more than 600 paintings then attributed to Rembrandt and
compile a catalogue of his work. Its findings have, at times, been
controversial. The IFAR Evening was the first opportunity in the
U.S.
in more than ten years to hear its Chairman, Ernst van de Wetering,
speak on the Project's findings. An article by Professor van de
Wetering expanding on his talk appears in IFAR Journal ,
Volume 4, Number 2.
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Early
Netherlandish Paintings or Twentieth-Century Fakes? A Tale of Deception
June 2001
Speaker: Maryan Ainsworth, Curator European Paintings at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art.
Four years in the making, Dr. Ainsworth's lecture drew upon works that
have passed through the New
York art market or were brought to the
Metropolitan Museum of Art for study. A summary of her talk appears in IFAR
Journal , Volume 4, Number 3.
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Speakers --left to right: W. Thomas Cassano, Neil Cronin, Lynne
Chaffinch and Catherine Begley (not pictured).
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The FBI'S Role in Art Fraud and Theft
November 2000
A rare insider's look at the FBI and an update on the Isabella
Stewart Gardner
Museum theft
(Still Unsolved After Ten Years)
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A Selection of IFAR Evenings:
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- Alexander Calder:
Artistic Development and Authenticity --A talk by Alexander S.
C. (Sandy)
Rower, Director of the Alexander and Louisa Calder Foundation
- The IRS, Art, and You
(a talk by Karen Carolan, Chief of the IRS Art Appraisal Unit;
with commentary by Ralph Lerner and Robert Dance)
- The How, What, and
Why of Art Insurance -- A Panel of Insurance Experts,
Collectors, and Attorneys
- Art, Law, and Ethics:
Theory and Practice -- A Talk by Kirk Varnedoe, Chief Curator, Museum
of Modern
Art
- The Jacob Lawrence
Catalogue Raisonné Project -- A Talk by Peter Nesbett, Project
Director (with a Private Tour of the Equitable Corporate Art
Collection)
- True or False:
Authenticating Egon Schiele -- A Talk by Jane Kallir
- Copying Chinese
Paintings: Flattery or Forgery? -- A Talk by H. Christopher Luce
- The Challenges of the
Catalogue Raisonné -- A Panel Discussion
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