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Artwork may be damaged or destroyed as a result of various types of accidents. Damage accidents sometimes occur during exhibition or transportation. Attempts at restoration have also damaged artworks, either by expert restorers using techniques that are found decades later to be unsuitable or harmful, or simple botches by unskilled people.
Vandalism of art is intentional damage of an artwork. The object, usually exhibited in public, becomes damaged as a result of the act, and remains in place right after the act. This may distinguish it from art destruction and iconoclasm, where it may be wholly destroyed and removed, and art theft, or looting.
Art destruction is the decay or material destruction of original works of art. This can happen willfully, accidentally, or through natural processes.
Two insurance companies have asked a court to block a $19.7 million claim by owners of more than two dozen forged Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings that were seized during an FBI raid at the Orlando ...
The New York Police Department said Saturday it took 34 people into custody after responding to a pro-Palestinian protest in Brooklyn, New York, that led to reports of damaged artwork and staff ...
This wasn’t the first time a vehicle crashed into the sculpture. In 2016, a Meridian woman was taken to the hospital after hitting a taxi and then the art, according to previous Statesman reporting.
An estimated $110 million of art was lost in the September 11 attacks: $100 million in private art [1] and $10 million in public art. [2] Much of the art was not insured for its full value. [1] In October 2001, a spokesperson for insurance specialists AXA Art described the attacks as "the biggest single disaster ever to affect the [art ...
Accidental damage of art; Maria Almas-Dietrich; Confiscation of Armenian properties in Turkey; Art and Antiques Unit; Art Loss Register; The Art of the Con; Art squat; Art theft and looting by Russia during the invasion of Ukraine; Association for Research into Crimes against Art