Earlier this year, when Miami-based art advisor Karen Boyer bought a painting for a client, the established London gallery she got it from confidently gave her a rough estimate of what it would cost to get the work across the Atlantic. So imagine her shock when the shipper sent a figure that was a full 50 percent higher. Boyer’s experience isn’t unique. Even as the ...
Chicago native Alvia Baker knows how she lost her son, the late artist and collector Derrick Joshua Beard. He died of complications due to cancer, back in 2018. But Baker said she has no idea how shipping giant FedEx recently lost two of her son’s most valuable paintings, which she entrusted to the company and were in transit to her. Baker said FedEx has ...
Erin Cone, a Santa Fe artist, received a suspicious message through her website sometime in 2019.“I was lucky enough to find one of your paintings by the name of stasis,” the message read. “It’s truly a wonderful piece but I was told it was a piece that was involved in a violent crime or stolen or something on the lines of that and I ...
Drought, fire and pestilence conspired to make 2020 a harrowing year for East Gippsland residents, but none of that was enough to halt a Wairewa local's pursuit of happiness.Key points:Retired GP Elizabeth Blakeman has achieved her lifelong ambition of opening an art galleryShe has turned a shipping container into a space that celebrates "resourcefulness and the human spirit"It has become a place where people ...
Click here for updates on this story ST. CHARLES COUNTY, MO (KMOV) — A home built out of shipping containers was built by a Missouri couple who has no desire to fit in. Eight 40-foot shipping containers make up Brie and Zack Smithey’s 3,100 square foot home. The shipping containers circled the world carrying various types of cargo before being turned into a home ...
