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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FBI says they’ve ID’d infamous thieves who stole half a BILLION dollars of art from Boston’s Gardner Museum… The FBI believes it knows the identities of the thieves who stole…
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…
Two months after Hurricane Sandy caused severe flooding in many Chelsea galleries, the bill for the art world’s recovery is shaping up to be hefty. By mid-November, AXA Art Insurance,…
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…
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…
David J. Goldberg, the New Orleans appraiser who has gained a reputation for uncovering valuable oil paintings, recently helped a Louisiana family realize $300,000 for a regional oil painting with…
Most people buy art because they love to look at it, but there’s always the hope that the payoff will go beyond aesthetics. The prices of photographer Cindy Sherman’s works…
