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Dec 02, 2008, 10:14AM

Airlines: raising prices, destroying valuable fine art, terrible customer service

Pissed your airline lost that suitcase full of fine digs from Macy's? Don't sweat it.

You're $300,000 sculpture could have bitten the dust:

But Survival of Serena, which traveled to Venice and Beijing, did not survive the trip to Miami.

The sculpture, estimated at $300,000, was destroyed and crushed into pieces on its way from Venice to Miami International Airport, where it arrived Wednesday. Its fragments now lie in a broken crate at a warehouse in West Palm Beach -- and will not receive its promised prominent display at Art Miami, which begins Tuesday.

''It's almost fate,'' Feuerman said, noting the irony in her piece's name.

The artwork's imagery meant to represent the survival of Venice, a city that has been drowning as floods have raised its water levels to the highest in 20 years.

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