Lesson Number 1: Root out integrity in all institutions that can investigate, prosecute, judge and execute sentences on crimes and put into positions of power co-conspirators, criminals, cowards, and the compromised (blackmail).
👉Investigations should start at the top #artcrime
Lesson Number 2: Family and business associates
Ivanka, Jared, Giuliani - every mob boss relies on family and cronies. The artworld is no different.
👉For Nazi looted art, duress sales, forced sales, look to family and close associates. #lessons#trumpcrimefamily#artcrime
Lesson Number 3: Fake news
Fox News, Breitbart, Judicial Watch, the Dark Money financed think tanks could teach Goebbels a thing or two about disinformation. Vast networks of authors, publishers, authorities which connect to each other, cite each other and amplify disinformation
Networks that create and disseminate malicious fake news share many tricks and techniques with those falsifying provenance of Holocaust-related artworks.
News network analysts look at citation networks.
So should (honest) #provenance researchers.
👉Track false info to origin