Not an 'Impossible Situation' at all

Cmte Cultural Policy‏ @CCPArtCulture 9.11

"An impossible situation for museums [and collectors], 'to be blamed...for owning objects with provenance issues, while simultaneously denied the ability to confirm whether those objects passed through the hands of these dealers.'” (' Tsirogiannis: Master of the Blame-Game... Tsirogiannis: Master of the Blame-Game Goes After Frieze Masters Tsirogiannis: Master of the Blame-Game Goes After Frieze Masters October 28, 2017)

Is there really an issue here? I disagree:

  Paul Barford‏ @PortantIssues 7 min7 minut temu

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Surely the onus on them in a market infested with looted items and fakes ( Julia Halperin, 'The Vast Majority of Antiquities Sold Online Are Probably Looted or Fake, a New Report Says Illicit antiquities are now available on Snapchat. 'Artnet news November 1, 2017 ) is to determine which dealers' hands they did pass through and if that is impossible, walk away from a potentially dodgy deal, no?

This really is not rocket science, if you want a surgeon to operate on your kid's tonsils, you go to one who's got the papers, and not check which illegally-operating pseudosurgeons are in police records. No?