Secret payouts worth millions for art lost in warehouse fire
The company that ran the art storage depot that went up in flames destroying hundreds of pieces of Britart has secretly paid out tens of millions of pounds in damages to leading artists, collectors and insurance companies.
December 2004
Spoof Momart Zippo is hottest present of year
Art warehouse that went up in flames regrets asking Chapman brothers to create its Christmas corporate gift.
Out of the flames comes a bigger, better version of Hell
Art into ashes
Art into ashes (Part 2)
'The story has been damaged'
June 2004
Fire claims works by Helen Chadwick
Ten works by Helen Chadwick, the artist who made plaster casts of the cavities formed by her urinating into snow, were among the victims of last month's fire at Momart's warehouse.
Burning shame
The warehouse fire in east London signalled the end of Britart, the movement many of us grew up with, says Jacques Peretti. But why are so many people glowing with pleasure over this loss?
Art blaze blamed on nearby break-in
The fire which ripped through Momart's east London art-storage warehouse last week destroyed all but two of the works housed in it.
40 works by abstract artist added to list of losses in Momart blaze
At least 40 paintings by the British abstract artist Adrian Heath, who died in 1992, were destroyed by the Momart fire in east London, it emerged yesterday.
Full picture
It was with dismay that I read a comment in an article about the fire in Leyton interpreting our adherence to the highest levels of client confidentiality as "confusion".
Nothing lasts for ever
Mark Lawson
Mark Lawson: One of our oldest artistic taboos may have perished in the Britart blaze.
All that modern art destroyed - even unto the Tent of Tracey. I am distraught. But all is not lost: can I suggest entering the London Fire Brigade video of the fire for the Turner prize?
Burned into the memory
Tracey Emin talks to Gordon Burn about the destruction of some of her best known pieces.
