Develop a straightforward emergency plan. This advice for artists and collectors is suggested by Anne Rappa, Senior Vice President, Fine Art Insurance, with Huntington T. Block, the oldest and largest managing general underwriter of Fine Art Insurance in the United States.
Such plans are created based on very simple pieces of information. Such information includes contact information for conservators and art storage facilities and assessments of needed physical protections. Gather the information together and write it down.
Isaac Kaplan of Artsy writes:
“Anne Rappa, senior vice president with fine arts insurer Huntington T. Block, urged anxious artists and collectors to look to museums for guidance, namely by developing a straightforward plan—such as compiling conservator or art storage facility contact information and assessing what physical protections are needed for the work. And, she stressed, be sure to write everything down.
“’When you use the words ‘disaster mitigation’ or ‘disaster planning,’ it sounds complicated,’ Rappa said. “But those plans are created based on very simple pieces of information that are culled together and put in one place. It’s the advanced thought that is so important.”
“One simple tip, she said, for artists and art owners facing water damage: Buy some blotting paper.”
See:
“Miami Artists and Museums Brace for Hurricane Irma” | Isaac Kaplan, Artsy, 6 September 2017
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