Speeches & Articles
Articles
Outsmarting Art Thieves
Risk Management Magazine - December 2004
“Claims adjusting is reactive and loss control is proactive,” he says. “As an art historian, I am a proactive person. I want to protect the object. I don’t want it stolen or damaged. I don’t want anything to happen to a cultural treasure. With claims adjusting, it can be frustrating because I know, in most cases, the theft could have been prevented.”
Speeches
Lessons Learned from Fine Art Claims
The Inland Marine Underwriters Association-Midwest
Chicago, IL – April 2008
Fine Art & Collectibles: Art Appreciation & Claims Handling
The Hanover Insurance Group Claims Meeting
Chicago, IL – January 2008
Contemporary Art: Security, Conservation, Insurance and Artist’s Rights
American Association of Museums Annual Conference
Chicago, IL – May 2007
Art Theft and Related Issues
Museum of Contemporary Art – Chicago
Chicago, IL – July 2006
Effects of Hurricane Katrina on Fine Art Risks
St. Paul Travelers Insurance
Chicago, IL – November 2005
Art Fraud and Fine Art Claims
Inland Marine Underwriters Association
Atlanta, GA – October 2005
Fine Art Loss Control and Claims Handling
CLE Visual Arts & the Law
Santa Fe, NM – August 2005
Art Fraud
St. Paul Travelers Insurance
Alpharetta, GA – May 2005
Art History, Art Careers and the Art World
University of Illinois, Chicago
Chicago, IL – November 2004
The Fine Art of Loss Control
St. Paul Travelers Insurance
Hartford, CT – October 2004
The Anatomy of a Fine Art Claim
Travelers Property & Casualty Insurance
Naperville, IL – March 2004
Effects of Construction on the Museum Environment
State of Tennessee – Finance and Administration
Nashville, TN – September 2003
Conservation & Restoration in the Settlement of Insurance Claims
Association of American Museums – Annual Meeting
Portland, OR – May 2003
Revolution in Art
Aon Private Client Group – Maestro
Chicago, IL – October 2002
Collection Management within Colleges and Universities
Marsh Ltd.
San Diego, CA – July 2002
Adjusters, Insurance, Conservation: Quandary, Cogitation and Resolutions,
OIA Quarterly Newsletters: 1999
"The perennial question "What is Art?" lingers within the insurance industry. It has been my experience that
a vast majority of the people working within the domestic insurance market acknowledge their limited
knowledge or appreciation of art. Art appears intimidating and foreign to insurance underwriters, brokers
and claims adjusters."
“The Farnsworth House”
CBS Sunday Morning, 2003
Contributing Archival Footage
OIA Productions, Inc.
The Farnsworth House
The History Channel – July 1999
Executive Producer, Host
OIA Productions, Inc.
Protecting the Priceless
The Stock Market Observer – September 1997
WCIU – Channel 26 (Chicago)
Appearances
Stolen
The Gene Siskel Film Center, 2006
Guest Speaker at Film Presentation
Monumental Myths
Documentary Film, 2003
Executive Producer
Skipping Stone Entertainment
The Art Detectives
Television Pilot- 2001
Executive Producer
Skipping Stone Entertainment
Case Studies: Fine Art within the Insurance Industry
Marsh Private Client Services
Chicago, IL – April 2001
Art Fraud within the Insurance Industry
Redlands Insurance
Chicago, IL – October 2000
Risk Management and Me
Association of Art Museum Administrators Conference
Phoenix, AZ – April 2000
Issues Regarding Hurricane Floyd
Cape Fear Museum
Wilmington, NC – October 1999
Art and Antique Fraud
National Insurance Crime Bureau
Chicago, IL – May 1999
Adjusters, Insurance, Conservation: Quandry, Cogitation and Resolutions
Western Association for Art Conservation Annual Meeting
Mt. Hood, OR – October 1998
Insurance 101
Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting
Chicago, IL – August 1997
The Tao of Underwriting: Art, Methodology and Sfumato
CIGNA Inland Marine National Conference
Chicago, IL – October 1995
To Claim or Not to Claim: Risky Management
Midwest Museum Conference,
Cincinnati, OH – September 1995
Identifying and Protecting Fine Art in Private Collections
Chubb Group of Insurance Companies,
Chicago, IL – November 1994
Business Insurance & Claims Awareness
The American Institute for Conservation,
Nashville, TN June 1994
Collection Management
Collection Management: Insurance & Claims,
Toronto, Ont. October 1993
Handling Fine Art Claims
Western Loss Associations,
Chicago, IL – May 1993
Art Collections in Academic Institutions
EIIA Seminar on Risk Management and Insurance
Chicago, IL – April 1993
Safeguarding Your Collection and Inventory
Fine Arts Risk Mgmt., Summer 1995 (Vol. 4 – No. 2)