Wednesday, June 30, 2021Everyone loves a good heist, and when the target is the world’s most famous painting, the stakes are even higher. Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is arguably the most recognizable piece of art in western canon, but few know that a portion of her fame comes from her 1911 theft that left the art world baffled. READ MORE >>
Wednesday, June 16, 2021As part of a test, the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety exposed two homes to a shower of embers. The embers ignited wood mulch in a garden adjacent to the home on the left, spreading to the walls. The home on the right was built with fire-resistant techniques, including the landscaping, and didn’t catch fire. READ MORE >>
Monday, June 7, 2021Your car’s VIN (Vehicle Identification Number) may seem like a random assortment of characters, but each number and letter corresponds to important information about your car. With this information, you’ll sound savvy the next time you tell your agent the 17 character vehicle number (VIN) on your new car. READ MORE >>
Monday, April 19, 2021A few weeks ago NFTs burst into headlines when Christie’s sold the digital art of the digital artist known as Beeple for more than $69 million. See our blog post on that event here. The environmental price of NFTs and cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are as mind-boggling as the auction results. READ MORE >>
Monday, April 12, 2021It may be an authentic Leonardo work but the Louvre would not allow it to be hung next to the Mona Lisa during a major exhibition. Salvator Mundi, still the most expensive work ever sold at auction which hammered at more than $450 million in 2017 was not at the time definitively by the hand of Leonardo. READ MORE >>
Monday, April 12, 2021It may be an authentic Leonardo work but the Louvre would not allow it to be hung next to the Mona Lisa during a major exhibition. Salvator Mundi, still the most expensive work ever sold at auction which hammered at more than $450 million in 2017 was not at the time definitively by the hand of Leonardo. READ MORE >>
Wednesday, March 17, 2021When Christie’s became the first major auction house to offer a purely digital work with a unique NFT (Non-fungible token) which sold for $69.3 million many in the art world and elsewhere had their first introduction to NFTs and to the digital artist Mike Winkelman, AKA Beeple. READ MORE >>
Thursday, March 11, 2021Being an entrepreneur is no small feat. After all, you are essentially your own boss as you strike out alone and venture into new commercial opportunities. The future is also uncertain, and so many different factors might influence precisely how successful your business might be. READ MORE >>
Tuesday, March 9, 2021Are you planning to remodel part of your home? Or are you about to build a new addition onto the dwelling? In either case, you need to consider what impact this is going to have on your home insurance needs. You need to make sure that you're protected during the project and that your coverage will continue as you expect when you're done. READ MORE >>
Friday, March 5, 2021Sadly, but not surprisingly, Certificates of Authenticity are increasingly called into question as more forgeries surface. Many artists’ foundations have stopped issuing certificates of authenticity after facing lawsuits from disgruntled collectors angered when the foundations would not authenticate the works. READ MORE >>
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