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"Exposed" musical composition by Toulme, Copyright 2023.

Cover art: excerpt from Consequence, oil on panel, Stephanie Drawdy, copyright 2022.

The following are the featured episode excerpts from Warfare of Art and Law:

Episode 38: Glance at Culture - Defiant Requiem: Maestro Murry Sidlin on Terezín Concentration Camp, Verdi's Requiem, the Arts & Social Justice

Episode 27: Nazi Plundered Art: Nathan Diament On the Legacy of Artist J.D. Kirszenbaum (1900-1954)

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Cover Photograph: Mr. Sparks: A Quest for Truth & Reconciliation, Copyright Nnebundo Obi 2022.

Nnebundo Obi's presentation is available here. To learn more about Nagel Institute's Engaging African Realities project, please visit the following link.

Show Notes:
0:00 South African revolutionary Robert Sobukwe

3:20 Nagel Institute Research Associate - Engaging African Realities Project 

Presentation from annual conference in Capetown 

4:05 Slide 2 - former S. African President Nelson Mandela’s cell at Robben Island

4:20 history of Robben Island, see slide 2

5:30 escapee from Robben Island David Stuurman

6:10 First female political prisoner on Robben Island, Krotoa or Eva 

7:10 1961, Robben Island used as prison for non-white political activists exclusively 

8:30 one letter and one visit per year for inmates at Robben Island

9:25 Hard labour in the limestone quarry

10:00 tour of Robben Island per Mr. Sparks, former inmate and current tour guide at Robben Island -  slide 4

12:40 Puzamandla: The “energy giving drink”, a hidden poison

14:00 Mr. Sparks gives testimony about his suffering at Robben Island to free himself

14:50 Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden - see slide 5

15:00 Lion’s Head, Tabletop Mountain Range - see slide 6

15:30 1800s creation of Van Riebeeck’s Hedge to mark Dutch property, shown at slide 6

16:10 Boulder’s Penguin Colony

16:25 history of apartheid - see slide 8

17:20 - 1979 “total strategy” 12 point plan to crush opposition to apartheid

18:20 1996 Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) established by Nelson Mandela

18:45 hearings for restorative justice

19:20 1977 founding of MEDU Art Ensemble 

20:30 female anti-pass protestors - see slide 10

22:30 1956 women’s march - see slide 11

23:00 Judy Sideman, member of MEDU Art Ensemble from 1980—1985  - see slide 11

24:20 MEDU Art Ensemble history - see slide 12

27:00 MEDU Art Ensemble posters - see slides 9, 12, 13

29:00 MEDU Art Ensemble targeted by the South African defense force

30:15 the power of testimony and collaboration and importance of mobilizing and gathering strength from community

30:45 University of Capetown

31:00 - 2015 ‘RHODES MUST FALL’ movement to remove the statue of British Imperialist Cecil Rhodes at the University of Cape Town - see slide 14

34:20 impact of removing statues like those of Cecil Rhodes 

38:00 impact of MEDU Art Ensemble on end of apartheid

39:00 Terrorism Act 

39:45 MEDU's community outreach 

41:45 Cohesion and single-minded vision of MEDU 

42:30 Nnebundo’s way of engaging with social justice issues

44:20 definition of justice

49:00 Netflix docu-series How To Become a Tyrant 

51:00 Jan Felman’s comments

51:40 Stefania Salles-Bruins’ comments 

53:25 Jarnick Vitters’ comments 

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Please visit the following to view the Benin Bronzes and to learn more about the Restitution Study Group.

Show Notes:

00:00 manillas used to trade for slaves as documented by Alan Ryder in Benin and the Europeans

02:50 mission and work of Restitution Study Group to fight for slavery justice

03:20 RSG’s focus on corporations, private estates and governments that were complicit in slavery

03:45 RSG’s suits against insurance companies for slavery policies

06:00 RSG’s suits against banks like J.P. Morgan Chase

0:630 RSG’s suits included consumer fraud and human rights arguments

07:30 DNA testing used by RSG 

08:30 DNA results and TransAtlantic Slave Trade Database used to trace ancestry

08:50 RSG’s action filed for genocide compensation efforts

09:35 the Proxmire Act, Genocide Convention Implementation Act of 1987

12:30 RSG’s suit against the Smithsonian Institution over the Benin Bronzes

14:40 1896 massacre of British soldiers 

15:30 Kingdom of Benin’s practice of sacrifice 

16:15 RSG’s demand for a share of the Benin Bronzes

17:20 RSG’s meeting with Kingdom of Benin’s princess 

19:20 Charleston, SC

19:30 Jamaica

21:00 The Benin Monarchy: An Anthology by Oba Ewuare II Foundation (2018) 

21:55 Paula Girshik

22:25 Harz Mountains

23:50 Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art's Ngaire Blankenberg  "confusion" on Kingdom of Benin's involvement in  slave trade 

24:45 per Dr. Paul Lovejoy, manillas were used in  slave traded and to make Benin Bronzes for 300 years

26:00 RSG’s allegations that Smithsonian is violating US law that requires consideration for transfer of the Bronzes outside the Smithsonian

28:00 Board of Regents vote on transfer of Benin Bronzes

30:30 11 October 2022 - Smithsonian’s scheduled transfer of Benin Bronzes 

31:30 Lack of media attention on this issue

31:50 Short film They Belong to All of Us

34:00 RSG’s suit against the Smithsonian is a restitution case

34:45 RSG’s efforts with institutions other than the Smithsonian

36:50 bronzes taken according to the laws of war

39:45 forensic research 

41:50 16th-19th Century Bronzes

42:15 Dan Hicks’ book The Brutish Museum

43:50 removing labels from the Bronzes

44:50 Oba Head gifted by Nigerian leader 

48:30 Benin City - hub of human trafficking 

51:20 African scholar Dr. Ibrahima Seck 

52:00 missing slave trade documentation for two main slave ports

54:00 one on one approach with American institutions

57:00 Petition submitted to UK’s Charities Commission

1:02:00 Smithsonian’s current holdings of Bronzes

1:04:00 RSG’s emergency motion

1:05:20 number of Bronzes in the U.S.

1:09:00 dual citizenship

1:11:00 Nigeria’s request for reparations 

1:11:50 definition of justice

1:14:00 opportunity for Nigeria to speak up

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"Prejudice" musical composition by Toulme, Copyright 2022.

Cover art: excerpt from Consequence, oil on panel, Stephanie Drawdy, copyright 2022.

"Prejudice" features episode excerpts from Warfare of Art and Law in the following order:

Episode 75: David de Jong on his book Nazi Billionaires and his call for Historical Transparency from Families that control brands like BMW, Porsche, Volkswagen, Dr. Oetker, Bahlsen, Allianz and Munich Re

Episode 34: Glance at Culture - The Holocaust in Modern Art: Professor Ziva Amishai-Maisels on Artists Picasso, Chagall, Rothko, Bacon and more

Episode 71: Dr. Joanna Sliwa On Holocaust Distortion, Poland's ‘Politics of Memory’, Jewish Childhood in Kraków, an Undercover Jewess Who Negotiated with the Nazis, and a Legacy to Inspire Future Scholars of All Genocide

Episode 85: Glance at Culture - Ella Nowicki on Incarceration, Art and Defining Justice in Terms of Accountability

Episode 49: Glance at Culture - A Conversation with Art Historian and Author Dr. Laura Morelli on Historical Justice and Historical Fiction

Episode 83: ASU Art Museum Director Miki Garcia On Art's Power to Address Inherited Notions About Mass Incarceration, the Undoing Time Exhibition, and Justice As Public Love 

Episode 62: Glance at Culture - Ukrainian-American Artist Mira Hnatyshyn on Ukrainian History & Heritage, Art as Protest and Creating a Community of Empathy

Episode 17: Mosse Art Restitution Project: Director of Investigations J. Eric Bartko On the Washington Principles and Restitution Efforts In Poland, Israel, Russia and the Netherlands

Episode 92: Glance at Culture - Journalist and Author Peter Kupfer on his book "The Glassmaker's Son"

Episode 11: Max Stern Art Restitution Project: Dr. Willi Korte On Restitution of Nazi-Looted Art, Sales Under Duress, and the German Advisory Commission

Episode 73: Glance at Culture - Author Menachem Kaiser on His Book Plunder, His Research and Property Claim in Poland, the Vilna Ghetto and the Frustrating Design of Judicial Systems 

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Please visit  Fritz Ascher Society's website and YouTube channel to learn more.

Show Notes:
2:00 mission of The Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted, Ostracized and Banned Art

3:45 Fritz Ascher’s life and work

8:30 open composition of Ascher’s 1968 Trees in Hilly Landscape compared with blocked tree compositions circa 1940 

11:15 recent discovery of portraits by Ascher

14:40 art historic term ‘inner emigration’

15:45 Ascher’s poetry as ‘unpainted paintings’

17:50 Artist Jeanne Mammen

19:35 Artists Lea and Hans Grundig

23:00 Art For No One exhibition in Frankfurt, Germany

26:40 creation of Fritz Ascher Society to highlight unknown artists 

29:30 Identity, Art and Migration online exhibition 

34:15 Felix Nussbaum’s work and Felix Nussbaum Haus in Osnabrück, Germany

35:15 founding director of Felix Nussbaum Haus Inge Jaehner

35:40 curator of Felix Nussbaum Haus Anne Schwetter 

36:30 Nussbaum’s wife, Felka Platek

38:00 post-war focus communist control and Cold War

38:40 her work to create historical justice for these artists and educating about these artists in order to put them into their context

39:40 justice through telling stories of minorities 

40:40 legacy 

41:20 power of art to initiate discussion and to help create a better world 

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To learn more, please visit the websites for M.C. Sungaila, the Portia Project podcast, and Mother's Thoughts For the Day.

Show Notes:
3:00 Overview of M.C. Sungaila’s work

5:00 US v. Lanier, 520 U.S. 259 (1997)

9:00 González et al. (“Cotton Field”) v. Mexico in the Interamerican Court of Human Rights

11:30 factors considered in drafting appellate briefs 

14:30 her work on Holocaust art recovery cases began with Randy Schoenberg in Republic of Austria v. Altmann 

16:00 procedural hurdles for heirs in Holocaust art recovery cases

18:00 Zuckerman cert petition raised questions about the meaning of the HEAR Act and how state equitable doctrines should interplay with the HEAR Act

20:00 potential issues surrounding drafting of HEAR Act

21:30 developing issue of how forced sales fit into Holocaust art recovery 

22:40 Cassirer v. Kingdom of Spain, et al

25:30 Federal Republic of Germany, et al v. Philipp aka the Guelph Treasure case

30:25 Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith

39:20 need for procedural and substantive fairness in U.S. Legal system

41:40 mission of the Portia Project Podcast

49:40 Portia Project documentary 

54:00 Girls Inc episode of the Portia Project

56:00 Sungaila’s mother as one of her role models

57:40 Judge Dorothy Nelson and Judge Ferdinand Fernandez of the 9th Circuit

57:50 Judge Alicemarie Stotler, Chief Judge of the Central District of California 

58:45 Sungaila’s publishing of Mother’s Thoughts For the Day

1:02:00 Mother’s Thoughts For the Day self-guided journal and merchandise 

1:04:40 how Sungaila’s book publishing led to the Portia Project 

1:07:00 advice for mind-management and time-management 

1:10:50 what justice looks like or should look like to Sungaila

1:13:35 the theme of her work is the importance and power of the individual 

1:14:50 three of Sungaila’s favorite quotes from her mother that relate to making your own mark and persisting 

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The Glassmaker's Son is available here. Please visit Peter Kupfer's website to learn more.

Show Notes:
3:00 Kupfer’s description of The Glassmaker’s Son 

5:00 Kupfer exploration of identity 

6:30 Kupfer’s name change 

7:45 paternal family history in Germany prior to WWII

10:00 1979 first visit to Bavaria

11:00 NY attorney for Kupfer’s father

12:00 1937 passenger list that includes Kupfer’s father

13:00 Kupfer’s grandfather

14:30 Kupfer’s grandfather in Terezin

15:25 Kupfer Villa sold 

16:50 letters between Mr. Kupfer’s father and grandfather regarding escape from Nazis

19:00 Kupfer’s glassmaking business 

24:00 last meeting of Kupfer business

26:00 mixed feelings when meeting Germans who knew Kupfer family prior to/during WWII

29:00 level of anti-semitism in Germany

31:00 German school education on Holocaust 

32:30 importance of visiting concentration camps

33:30 Terezin Concentration Camp

37:30 efforts to seek return of ancestral portraits

44:00 post-war restitution claims

46:30 how his story addresses justice

47:45 legacy he hopes his book has

49:00 his definition of justice confirmed after exploring his family history

50:50 most surprising aspect of his research for this book

53:00 Stolperstein ceremony honors Kupfer’s family on November 22, which is also the release day of The Glassmaker’s Son

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To learn more, visit Art Recognition's website.

SHOW NOTES:

2:00 Lisa Salama’s background in art and art law

3:00 authentication remains main risk of art trading

3:30 Salama’s work overseeing legal aspect of Art Recognition and 

4:00 analysis process

4:15 the deep convolutional neural network mimics human brain

5:30 physical inspection of work is not needed

6:00 algorythm assessment determines authenticity

6:15 heat map shows important features that led to network’s decision in red

6:45 Sample report available, e.g., Cezanne’s Boy In Red Vest

7:15 Samson & Delilah confirmed as non-authenticate; listed by National Gallery as a Rubens

8:40 Collaboration with universities 

10:30 data sets

12:00 analysis of paintings and drawings

13:00 analysis of restored work

14:00 legal issues

16:30 data set due diligence process

18:00 minimum 100 works for a data set

19:00 how AI compliments other authentication methods, e.g., art experts

21:00 Unsupervised Deep Learning involves no human programming

21:40 works created by school of an artist

22:30 different styles and periods of an artists’ work

23:00 graffiti

23:20 range of clients

24:00 over 500 case reports completed 

24:10 Future for an Art Recognition app

24:45 co-creator Dr. Carina Popovici 

26:00 how Art Recognition contributes to transparency in art market

28:20 Responsible Art Market

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The following are links used to prepare this episode:

https://www.britishmuseum.org/our-work/departments/human-remains
https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/103WN2

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To learn more, please visit the website for Museum Art of the Lost Generation.

SHOW NOTES:

2:10 Dr. Böhme's collection

2:50 2nd Generation of Modern Artists 

3:00  Corinth,  Beckmann,  Klee,  Kokashka 

4:00 Museum’s goal to find/research Lost Generation artists 

4:50 Salzburg

5:00 Using Brush and Paint Against the Time 

5:20 Exhibition poster image – 1955 self-portrait by Heinrich Emil Adametz studied at Hamburg School of Arts and Crafts

5:50 1933 Heinrich Emil Adametz was banned

6:00 1945 Heinrich Emil Adametz returned to Berlin

7:00 exhibition on destinies of female artists  

7:15 Until end of WWI, women were denied access to universities and art colleges

1933 –  Jacobis refused to close school; fled to NY/re-opened school

9:30 1889 Felka Platek born in Warsaw

9:40 1923 - Platek moved to Berlin

9:50 Nussbaum

11:45 Felka and Felix 

12:00 Frankfurt artist Hanna Becker Van Rath

12:40 Van Rath’s Blue House in Germany 

13:00 We Haven’t Seen Each Other In So Long  

14:00 Provenance research 

14:50 Digitization aids in research 

15:20 Provenance research defines them as a museum 

17:00 sponsoring program

17:30 Frankfurt Artist Ruth Camp’s portrait of woman

18:00 Canvases by Heinrich Esser found in attic 

18:20 Three People by Esser

19:40 Posthumous political Portrait of Dr. Friedrich Maase (1878-1959) by Gert Heinrich Wollheim 

21:00 Female Destinies 

21:45 Future of museum - coming to terms with past by focusing on artists/their fates

22:30 combines art history with contemporary history 

23:00 Museum to be part of the movement to create justice for these artists 

23:40 visitor comments and press feedback 

25:05 library 

26:00 Meet Me in Paris Exhibition 

27:45 female artists seeking education in Paris

29:00 Paris co-ed classes

29:50 nude works by Martha Bernstein and Rudolf Levy

30:20 Montparnasse cafe scene

31:15 1933 Paris as a safe haven from National Socialists – life in exile

32:00 Occupied Paris

33:20 Russian artist Samuel Granovsky - worked with pastels/spatula

35:50 Granovsky nicknamed Cowboy of Montparnasse

36:45 Matisse student Martha Bernstein; 1911 Female Nude in Atelier

38:20 Bernstein became part of Berlin Secession 

38:50 Malweiber (painting women) mocking term for female artists 

40:30 Adolf Da Haer’s 1940 On the Beach; shifted from expressionism to conservative natural approach

43:45 Mack Koch – ex of inner immigration 

46:45 Koch’s 1930 Woman With Pipe

48:45 Häfner family 

49:55 Herbert Häfner’s 1935 Portrait of Miss Lilo Jüngst

52:35 Ilse Häfner-Mode’s Portrait of a Woman in front of a Wooden Door

54:20 Thomas Häfner’s Fantasy Landscape with Mask

56:00 Ilsa Häfner’s ink drawings while interned 

56:30 feedback

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