EVENT: Provenance and Restitution with Shared Knowledge Graphs September 15

 Free and open to the public - online or in person - register by Sept 12!

On September 15, the German Lost Art Foundation has graciously invited me to give a talk on Provenance and Restitution in their series "Kolloquium Provenienzforschung".

https://kulturgutverluste.de/termine/kolloquium-provenienzforschung-shared-knowledge-graphs-tool-recovering

The topic is “Shared knowledge graphs as a tool in recovering looted cultural heritage and the histories of marginalized people“. 

I hope the information provided will be helpful to cultural heritage professionals, provenance researchers, claimants, Holocaust scholars, art crime experts, museum and art market people.

(Do not let the words "knowledge graph" scare you. In this talk, I’ll show how we can connect information—people, places, artworks, events—into a kind of map of relationships. Think of it as a network of stories and connections. We can use this to retrieve lost information and to explore hidden networks over long periods of time, which is very useful for Nazi-looted art as well as other kinds of stolen or disappeared cultural heritage.) 

The event will take place at the Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste, Außenstelle Berlin, Seydelstraße 18, 10117 Berlin. 

It is also possible to join the event via Webex. (Register by Sep 12)

Registrations to:
German Lost Art Foundation
Heinrich Natho
Humboldtstr. 12 | 39112 Magdeburg
veranstaltungen@kulturgutverluste.de

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Tips for advanced search and download on the new Getty Provenance Index: VIDEO

The new Getty Provenance Index can be confusing to use. Here are some tips for advanced search and download on the new GPI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vbf0QjHWQ_8

Demo:
- simple search on Pinakos,
- selection of provenance activity facet
- narrowing to a specific art market actor, (Swiss art dealer Fritz Nathan)
- download into CSV file of the five artworks that Fritz Nathan sold to Pinakos and Knoedler (who acquired jointly)

Tip: Downloading works if you don't select the optional "Export as system values". 

(In the videos I keep the mistakes so that viewer can recognize them and not panic if they make the same.)

Looted art: I asked ChatGPT for assistance writing code in R to classify 20,000 artworks

I asked ChatGPT for help writing a program in R to classify whether an artwork is ok, a forgery, or Nazi loot. What do you think of the result?