Objects of Affection Collection
A database of human emotion.
Recent studies
- One Canvas, Three Changes: What Happened Between 1.5 Million Euros and 8 Million Pounds, and Which of It Was the Painting
- What Was Bid, and What Was Reported: The Twenty Four Million Dollars of a Pollock Record That Was Never About the Painting
- The Record Was Agreed Before the Bidding: What a Guaranteed Sale Can Record, and What It Cannot
- Two Weddings in Centuripe: The Snapshot That Undid a Provenance, and What Actually Moves an Object Out of a Museum
- The Weighing Was the Cataloguing: The Segou Treasure and a Law That Runs on Records Nobody Has Funded
- Downstream of a Missing Piece of Paper: What the Parthenon Record Holds, and What It Has Never Held
- The Document Was Never the Check: AI Did Not Break Provenance, It Made Lying Cheap
- The Market Does Not Pay for Restitution. It Pays for a Record Nobody Is Still Arguing About.
- Standard or Head-Dress? Zelia Nuttall Asked That in 1888, and the Vienna Penacho Is Still Argued Over Under a Name Its Own Scholarship Calls Erroneous
- A Butterfly Has a Better Record Than She Does: Seventeen Murals, 1.7 Million Dollars, and the Permission Nobody Can Produce
- She Was Never on the Title: Eileen Gray, E-1027, and Three Records That Had No Field for Her
- A Judge Asked Three Questions About 63 Objects. Colombia's National Museum Answered Two.
- Yung Lean: The Complete Record. Jonatan Leandoer Håstad from Ginseng Strip 2002 to the First Auction of His Art
- Repair Is Authorship: PoloFest Tokyo, Three Japanese Menders, and the Record With No Field for Them
- Two Refusals: The Estate Sale and the Coat of Paint
- A Trace Is Not an Author: A DNA Study of Cave Art Found One Positive in Twenty Four Panels and Wrote Down the Standard It Had Not Met
- Objects in Limbo: A Museum Coined a Term for What It Could Not Prove, and It Is Sharper Than the Standard
- A Full Stop Is a Declared Gap: Provenance Already Has a Grammar for Absence, and Almost Nobody Reads It
- A Cancellation Documents Itself: Four Withdrawn Exhibitions, the Record Each One Left, and the Quieter Ones That Leave Nothing
- One Author for the Object and Its History: The Dealer Who Furnished Los Angeles, and the Archive That Convicts Him
- The Title Is the Gap: A Klimt With Thirty Five Years Missing, a Record Bid, and the Absence Nobody Declared
- The Brackets Came Off: Six Hopper Copies, a Title Invented After He Died, and a Catalogue That Marked Its Own Doubt
- A Date Nobody Wrote Down: The Starry Night, a Catalogue More Certain Than Its Own Prose, and a Finding Already Losing Its Hedge
- The First Network of Researchers in France: Joining Culture(s) de Mode