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Art in the Apocalypse

Los Angeles is burning. And one theme of the fires, which are forcing residents to choose between their possessions, is that art is interwoven into our lives. Among the various efforts in the gradual rebuilding, art insurance executives are beginning to grasp the work ahead of them.

Getty Villa
On Tuesday, when the Pacific Palisades fires started licking at the outskirts of the Getty Villa, which sits perched atop a bluff overlooking the Pacific, we had our first inkling of what might come later. Photo: Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News/Getty Images
Marion Maneker
January 10, 2025

Yesterday, as I listened to my Puck partners Dylan Byers and Peter Hamby on The Powers That Be, discussing the unreality of the wildfires ripping through Los Angeles, I was struck by a particularly poignant detail. Dylan and Peter, both longtime Angelenos, were trading stories of disbelief, while analyzing the tragic events through the lens of politics and local media, the latter of which is often underappreciated until a disaster reminds us that it is essential.