Serves to reinforce the importance of Disaster Preparedness Next to oxygen, water is the most essential element to human life. However, it is a serious threat to objects of art…
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In addition to all the damaged homes everyone witnessed on the news during the onslaught of superstorm Sandy, insurance companies are reeling from the largest ever payouts for damage to…
Fine art is an $80 billion global market and the co-founders of Artspace.com think an online marketplace can grab $10 billion to $15 billion of that total. “We’re building a…
Receding water after Hurricane Sandy left its ugly mark on the walls of New York’s art district, rising up to five feet on some buildings, and gallery owners sifted through…
Jeffrey Gundlach’s $1 million reward for his stolen painting by Piet Mondrian is believed to be the largest ever offered for a single painting, according to art experts. Gundlach, a…
Andy Warhol’s estate is cashing out. A quarter-century after the Pop artist died, his art foundation is about to upend the Warhol market by auctioning off the rest of his…
ROME (AP).- Caravaggio was notorious for his brawling, so it might be fitting that a claim by two Italian art historians that they discovered as many as 100 drawings by…
Can insurance be sexy? Maybe in the art world. In 2007, FBI agents showed up at the office of film director (and celebrity art collector) Steven Spielberg to reclaim a…
After the earthquakes, floods and tornadoes of the past year, a tsunami of panic has swept through the ranks of general insurers. Disasters such as the earthquakes in Japan and…
When wildlife agents infiltrated the home of a small-town Alaska couple suspected of dealing illegal animal parts, they didn’t expect to find fine art among the couple’s loot. But amid…
