Provenance covers an object's complete documented history. An artifact may thus have both a provenience and a provenance. The provenance of works of fine art, antiques and antiquities is of great importance, especially to their owner. There are a number of reasons why painting provenance is important, which mostly also apply to other types of fine art. A good provenance increases the value of a painting, and establishing provenance may help confirm the date, artist and, especially for portraits, the subject of a painting. It may confirm whether a painting is genuinely of the period it seems to date from. The
To SquarePants or Not to SquarePants SquarePants or Not to SquarePants" was written by Luke Brookshier, Nate Cash, and Steven Banks, and the animation was directed by supervising director, Alan Smart. Brookshier and Cash also functioned as storyboard directors. The episode originally aired on Nickelodeon in the United States on July 17, 2009, with a TV-Y7 parental rating. The episode was a part of the network's tenth anniversary celebration of "SpongeBob SquarePants". Starting July 17, 2009 at 8:00 pm EDT, Nickelodeon aired a 50-hour "SpongeBob" marathon titled "The Ultimate SpongeBob SpongeBash Weekend". The marathon started with the premiere of "To SquarePants or Not to SquarePants" at