{"id":17660,"date":"2017-09-22T10:59:55","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T15:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=17660"},"modified":"2017-09-22T10:59:55","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T15:59:55","slug":"art-preservation-and-natural-disasters-a-letter-to-the-nytimes-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2017\/09\/22\/art-preservation-and-natural-disasters-a-letter-to-the-nytimes-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"Art preservation and natural disasters, a letter to the NYTimes editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the recent <em>New York Times<\/em> article by Paul Sullivan,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/09\/15\/your-money\/homeowners-insurance-art-yacht.html\">Protecting Andy Warhol From Flood, Fire and Quake<\/a>, published\u00a0online\u00a0September 15, 2017, the AIC board of directors (through Treasurer Sarah Barack) has submitted a letter to the editor of the Times. The letter is printed in full below.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To the Editor,<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"gmail-s1\">The recent article, <b>Protecting Andy Warhol from Flood, Fire and Quake<\/b>, was commendable in that it brought to the forefront the need to protect art collections when disasters are looming. As the professional association for art conservators in North America, the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC) has long been concerned with mitigating such damage, and aiding those museums, institutions and collectors whose collections have thus been impacted. AIC has resources available on its website (<\/span><span class=\"gmail-s2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservation-us.org\/resources\/disaster-response-recovery\">https:\/\/www.conservation-us.org\/resources\/disaster-response-recovery<\/a><\/span><span class=\"gmail-s1\">) for the general public, and also provides a Find a Conservator digital database, which allows any individual looking for professional conservation advice to be matched with an appropriate, professional conservator. Further, AIC is able to activate a nation-wide network of conservators trained to respond to emergencies following such events.<span class=\"gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"gmail-p1\"><span class=\"gmail-s1\">As we all know, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure\u2014<\/span> <span class=\"gmail-s1\">however this benefit requires proper prevention which can be provided by trained art conservators. Should these measures prove insufficient, prompt conservation attention can help offset complete property loss.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail-p1\"><span class=\"gmail-s1\">Sarah Barack<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail-p1\"><span class=\"gmail-s1\">Treasurer of the Board,<span class=\"gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail-p1\"><span class=\"gmail-s1\">American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"gmail-p1\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the recent New York Times article by Paul Sullivan,\u00a0Protecting Andy Warhol From Flood, Fire and Quake, published\u00a0online\u00a0September 15, 2017, the AIC board of directors (through Treasurer Sarah Barack) has submitted a letter to the editor of the Times. The letter is printed in full below. &nbsp; To the Editor, The recent article, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2017\/09\/22\/art-preservation-and-natural-disasters-a-letter-to-the-nytimes-editor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Art preservation and natural disasters, a letter to the NYTimes editor&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27],"tags":[393,591],"class_list":["post-17660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-disasters","tag-emergency-response","tag-letter-to-the-editor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}