saddened to hear about artist friends in NYC who have lost work - in some cases, almost all of it -  stored in basements that got flooded

compared with the loss of life, or of your home, perhaps it seems like a small thing

but think of all the life that goes into a life's work

reports on the full scale of the devastation are coming in -- Jerry Salz tours Chelsea's ruined art galleries,  LA Times has a story, ArtInfo on the effects in Greenpoint, Hyperallergic has a series of updates with Ballardian photo documentation