The Clark Art Institute presents a lecture by Bénédicte Savoy, the 2024 recipient of the Clark Prize for Excellence in Arts Writing. Savoy is a professor of art history at Technische Universität in Berlin and is a noted expert on the provenance and repatriation of works of art, including looted art and other forms of illegally acquired cultural objects. The lecture takes place in the auditorium of the Manton Research Center. In her lecture, titled Thinking About Absence in Museums, Savoy examines the emptiness that art and cult objects leave in their place of origin when, through armed conflict, colonial occupation, or economic asymmetries, they are moved to (mostly Western) museums.