A much cheaper option is the one-year course at Glasgow University, the MSc in collecting and provenance in an international context (£6,950), that aims to combine the serious study of art history with teaching about law and the tricky issues of restitution and illegal trafficking.
Talks over territorial readjustments and the ever-explosive issue of property restitution could yet throw a wrench in the progress.
The affair between Julie (Hilda Cronje) and a black servant, John (Bongile Mantsai), not only crosses lines of race and class but also is informed by the complex issue of land restitution for South African blacks.
Sitting with him on a conference panel at the University of Milan on the issue of cultural restitution was Katie Getchell, deputy director of the Boston museum, who echoed many of his comments.
Pointing to the success of public drives in the past, like the campaign for Soviet Jewry and the settlement of claims of Holocaust victims by Swiss banks, Mr. Brown said the issue of property restitution had to be out there on Twitter and Facebook, although negotiations with countries where properties were located "do not have to be made public right away".
Demands from art scholars and descendants of Holocaust victims for procedural transparency prompted the German government to organize a high-profile task force to address issues of ownership and restitution, but a new complication arose when Gurlitt's will named the Kunstmuseum Bern in Switzerland as sole heir to the Schwabing Kunstfund (Schwabing [popularly referred to as the Munich] art trove).
Its core is an agenda for formal negotiations which covers legal guarantees for the guerrillas and their future participation in democratic politics, as well as land restitution and the issue of FARC involvement in drug-trafficking.
While there has been progress in the form of restitution of funds looted from poor countries, some experts fear that the issue may be sliding lower on the international agenda as the financial crisis rolls on.
