After a nearly year-long and highly publicized search, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has appointed its inaugural head of Provenance Research. Lucian Simmons, who has worked at ...

“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 ...

Provenance researcher Rudi Ekkart speaks about Camille Pissarro’s Girl Lying on the Grass, which was sold under duress during the Second World War. Photo by Sina Schuldt/picture alliance via Getty ...

The importance of provenance research is growing, but institutions face several thorny issues when it comes to determining provenance and repatriating art and artifacts. A late 10th–early 11th Century ...

Lucian Simmons is leaving Sotheby’s to lead the museum’s increased efforts to review its collection, which has recently returned looted artifacts, including dozens last year. By Robin Pogrebin As part ...

After surrendering scores of art works thought looted, the museum is looking to its new head of provenance research to police its acquisitions and review its collection. By Graham Bowley and Tom ...

The Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art announced today its plans to return three sculptures to the Government of India, following rigorous provenance research that documented that the ...