{"id":7414,"date":"2013-01-21T07:03:07","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T12:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=7414"},"modified":"2013-01-21T07:03:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T12:03:07","slug":"what-does-it-mean-when-an-insurance-company-says-that-a-damaged-work-of-art-no-longer-exists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2013\/01\/21\/what-does-it-mean-when-an-insurance-company-says-that-a-damaged-work-of-art-no-longer-exists\/","title":{"rendered":"What does it mean when an insurance company says that a damaged work of art no longer exists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the December 24 &amp;31, 2012 issue of The New Yorker, Rebecca Mead wrote a Talk of the Town piece, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/talk\/2012\/12\/24\/121224ta_talk_mead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zombie Art<\/a>&#8221; about The Salvage Art Institute\u2019s exhibit in the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery at Columbia University called \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/arthurrossarchitecturegallery.org\/dev\/exhibitions\/no-longer-artsalvage-art-institute\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">No Longer Art<\/a>\u201d and a related symposium (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_lX9vW47sKs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_lX9vW47sKs<\/a> ) bringing considerable exposure to the category of \u201cdead\u201d or \u201csalvage\u201d art\u2014 i.e., damaged works of art for which the cost of conservation would be greater than the amount for which the works are insured. These works are therefore rendered as total losses by insurance companies and are sent to warehouses to live in limbo. In terms of the art market they no longer exist. However, they do exist physically and could be restored, raising existential ethical questions which conservators might well contemplate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the December 24 &amp;31, 2012 issue of The New Yorker, Rebecca Mead wrote a Talk of the Town piece, &#8220;Zombie Art&#8221; about The Salvage Art Institute\u2019s exhibit in the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery at Columbia University called \u201cNo Longer Art\u201d and a related symposium (http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_lX9vW47sKs ) bringing considerable exposure to the category of \u201cdead\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2013\/01\/21\/what-does-it-mean-when-an-insurance-company-says-that-a-damaged-work-of-art-no-longer-exists\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What does it mean when an insurance company says that a damaged work of art no longer exists&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":7435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7414","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\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}