September 11th was a tragedy of epic proportions. Thousands of lives were lost; the world was changed. Art, too, was lost. IFAR's distinguished speakers from the world of art and insurance discussed the works that were destroyed or damaged and the implications for the future. Edited proceedings appear in a double issue of IFAR Journal (Vol. 4, No.4 / Vol. 5, No.1) as well as on the IFAR Website.

	Dietrich von Frank President and CEO, AXA Art Insurance Corporation		John Haworth Director, George Gustav Heye Center Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
	Moukhtar Kocache Director, Visual and Media Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council		Suzanne F. W. Lemakis V. P. and Art Curator, Citigroup
	Lawrence L. Reger President, Heritage Preservation, Heritage Emergency National Task Force		Gregory J. Smith Insurance Adjuster; Director, Cunningham Lindsey International
	Saul Wenegrat Art Consultant; Former Director, Art Program Port Authority of NY and NJ		Elyn Zimmerman Sculptor (World Trade Center Memorial, 1993)

(left to right: S. Flescher, Executive Director, IFAR; S.Wenegrat, E. Zimmerman,
M. Kocache, S. Lemakis).





(left to right: L. Reger, G. Smith, D. von Frank, J. Haworth)

IFAR acknowledges
The Liman Foundation
for its support of this program.

Catalogues raisonnés are crucial research tools affecting the scholarly, commercial, institutional, and collecting art worlds. They are plagued, however, by controversy over who should produce them; who should fund them; what standards should be applied to avoid the perception of arbitrary decision-making or conflicts of interest; and what protection can be afforded the scholars involved from lawsuits stemming from the rendering of their opinions. This conference focused on the processes, standards, and challenges of catalogues raisonnés. It also addressed the broader authentication process. Designed to be educational, not polemical, it provided a forum for those involved in the process to exchange information, while it facilitated a dialogue between producers and users of catalogues raisonnés. TOPICS Right or Wrong; Real or Fake: Who Cares? Procedures and Process Who Judges the Experts? Legal Liability for Giving Opinions Insurance Options Getting Published; At What Cost? Ethics and Potential Conflicts of Interest Post-Research: Dealing with the Field SPEAKERS/PANELISTS Conference proceedings are being edited for publication. Participants: Paul Anbinder, Editor and Publisher, Hudson Hills Press Vivian Endicott Barnett, Author, Kandinsky Watercolours: Catalogue Raisonné 1900-1921 and 1922-1944 Jack Cowart, Executive Director, Roy Lichtenstein Foundation Sarah Faunce, Director, Courbet Catalogue Raisonné Project Theodore H. Feder, President, Artists Rights Society, Inc. (ARS) Michael Findlay, Director, Acquavella Galleries Sharon Flescher, Executive Director, International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR) Grace Glueck, Art Critic, The New York Times Theodore N. Kaplan, esq., Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer LLP Gail Levin, Prof. of Art History, Baruch College and The Graduate Center, CUNY; Author, Edward Hopper: A Catalogue Raisonné Steven Mark Levy, esq., Lewis, D'Amato, Brisbois & Bisgaard LLP Barbara Buhler Lynes, Curator, The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum; Author, Georgia O'Keeffe Catalogue Raisonné Nancy Mowll Matthews, Eugénie Prendergast Curator, Williams College Museum of Art; President, Catalogue Raisonné Scholars Association Neil Printz, Editor, The Isamu Noguchi Catalogue Raisonné; Co-editor, Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné: Volumes I-II Van Kirk Reeves, esq., Porter & Reeves Ellen Hoener Ross, Vice President, Acordia (Insurance Company) Samuel Sachs II, Director, The Frick Collection Ronald D. Spencer, esq., Carter, Ledyard and Milburn Elaine Stainton, Sr. Editor; Director, Museum & Art Group, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Peter R. Stern, esq., Berger Stern & Webb, LLP Joyce Hill Stoner, Professor & Paintings Conservator, Winterthur/University of Delaware, Program in Art Conservation Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. Distinguished Fellow and Consultative Curator of American Paintings, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Peter C. Sutton, Exec. Director and CEO, Bruce Museum of Arts and Science; Author, Pieter de Hooch: Complete Edition with a Catalogue Raisonné John Tancock, Sr. Vice President, Impressionist and Modern Paintings, Sotheby's Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr. Curator, Northern Baroque Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C Copies of the conference resource packet are available to non-attendees. Packet Includes: Articles relating to catalogues raisonnés Legal articles relating to: Droit Morale; Authentication;        and the Liability of Scholars Giving Opinions Sample authentication data sheets and waiver forms To place an order, please see our Order Publications page. IFAR gratefully acknowledges the following for their grants toward support of this conference: Samuel H. Kress Foundation Roy Lichtenstein Foundation

Provenance & Due Diligence This workshop / conference, organized by the International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR) in collaboration with NYU, addressed the legal and artistic issues involved in establishing the provenance of a work of art and in otherwise exercising due diligence in acquiring art. Particular reference was made to art looted before and during WW II and to antiquities.

Special Guest Speaker: • Craig Hugh Smyth: Member, IFAR Art Advisory Council; Director, Central Art Collecting Point, Munich, MFA&A, 1945-51; Former Director, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU.

	Greg Bradsher, Director, Holocaust Era Assets Records Project, National Archives		Robert Cohon, Curator of Ancient Art, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
	Hector Feliciano, Journalist; Author, The Lost Museum		Herbert Hirsch, Chair, Committee on Art Law, The Assn of the Bar of the City of New York
	Sarah Jackson, Director, Historic Claims, The Art Loss Register		Jack A. Josephson, Egyptologist, Collector, Research Associate, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
	Constance Lowenthal, Director, Commission for Art Recovery, World Jewish Congress		Peter Marks, Private Dealer, Past President, National Association of Dealers in Ancient, Oriental, and Primitive Art
	John Henry Merryman, Sweitzer Professor of Law Emeritus, Stanford University Law School; Co-Author, Law, Ethics, and the Visual Arts		Linda Pinkerton, esq., Former General Counsel, The J. Paul Getty Trust and Christie's
	Inge Reist, Chief of Collections Development and Research, Frick Art Reference Library		Alexander Shapiro, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York
	Stephen E. Weil, esq., Emeritus Senior Scholar, Center for Museum Studies, Smithsonian; Co-Author, Art Law