Objects of Affection Collection
A database of human emotion.
Recent studies
- Nobody Books the Commons: What the Record Shows When a Public Asks What It Held
- The Name Was the Disclosure: A Recipe Dispute Fought Entirely Through Records
- The Number Counts a Legal Act: What Moved, When, and to Whom in Five Benin Returns
- Every Garment Will Carry a Record, and It Will Describe a Batch
- The Parts Were Real: What an Authenticity Verdict Carries, and What It Cannot
- The Review That Refused to Give a Verdict: Four Grades, Three Objects, and the Clause Everybody Dropped
- A Portrait of Turner Became a Self-Portrait: One Word, a Bequest Worded by Authorship, and the Buttons That Are Not There
- Seized, or Voluntarily Transferred: One Set of Objects, Two Verbs, and the Name That Decides a Provenance
- Names Unknown: Twenty Museum Catalogues and the Field That Is Not There
- Unsellable: What a Provenance Record Is Worth on Each Side of a Theft
- They Picked Counterparties That Could Not Answer: Two Forgery Cases and the Free Checks Nobody Ran
- The Brackets Were Dropped: Edward Hopper's First Oils and the Notation That Carried the Whole Record
- Recovered Before It Was Reported Stolen: What the Three Minute Heist Wave Is Actually Made Of
- No Jewels, and No Empty Cases: A Year After the Louvre, the Absence Has Been Taken Off Display
- Two Walls Were Built to Hold Them: The Renoir Theft, and the Month That Only a Confession Records
- Both Rose, and Only One Was Reported: What the Art Basel Survey Says About AI When You Read the Rest of It
- 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.