{"id":1094,"date":"2008-11-15T08:27:27","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T15:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/11\/the-art-handlers\/"},"modified":"2008-11-15T08:28:58","modified_gmt":"2008-11-15T15:28:58","slug":"the-art-handlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/15\/the-art-handlers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art Handlers"},"content":{"rendered":"

from Art Market Monitor<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

I Like to Move It, Move It<\/h2>\n

<\/span>November 14th, 2008\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Vinnie<\/span><\/p>\n

Who would have thought that the art handlers would have such leverage in the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy? But here\u2019s\u00a0Bloomberg<\/a>\u00a0on the orphaned art collection:<\/p>\n

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Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. said it plans to sell about $8 million of artworks warehoused in New York and Paris to help pay creditors.\u00a0It asked the court to let it pay $20,000 in overdue bills to art-handlers who would move artworks to and from the warehouses and display them to prospective purchasers.<\/p>\n

If Lehman doesn\u2019t pay the art handlers\u2019 bills, they have the right under New York state law and French law to seize all the artworks to satisfy their claims, according to the filing<\/p>\n

There\u2019s an art to handling art. It\u2019s not just about picking up a painting and moving it, or hammering a nail into a wall. It\u2019s a lot more challenging than most people think. You have to know what you\u2019re looking at, and you learn by experience. We become artists to figure out how we are going to hang something that weighs 300 pounds. There is engineering involved, and carpentry skills. [ . . . ] Getting big things into New York buildings is another challenge. Sometimes you have to hoist the piece up through a window, or fold it in half. I\u2019ve even put stuff on the top of elevator cars.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

<\/span>[\u00a0click to read at ArtMarketMonitor.com<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from Art Market Monitor I Like to Move It, Move It November 14th, 2008\u00a0 Who would have thought that the art handlers would have such leverage in the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy? But here\u2019s\u00a0Bloomberg\u00a0on the orphaned art collection: Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. said it plans to sell about $8 million of artworks warehoused in New York […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}