The Archive
Essays
Criticism and reflection on the culture, ethics, and aesthetics of art crime.
3 entries
9 min read
The Aesthetics of Absence
What the empty frame teaches us about value, memory, and the strange afterlife of stolen art.
12 min read
The Expert Eye and Its Blind Spots
Connoisseurship promised certainty. Forgers from van Meegeren to Beltracchi proved how much it relied on desire.
11 min read
Who Owns the Past?
Restitution has moved from the margins to the center of the museum's moral life.