{"id":7001,"date":"2012-11-02T16:05:03","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T21:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=7001"},"modified":"2012-11-02T16:05:03","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T21:05:03","slug":"galleries-need-disaster-plans-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2012\/11\/02\/galleries-need-disaster-plans-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Galleries Need Disaster Plans Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/gallery.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7011\" title=\"gallery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/gallery.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"159\" \/><\/a>The destruction wrought by Hurricane Sandy to many Chelsea area art galleries described in recent issues of The New York Times (\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/11\/01\/arts\/design\/hurricane-sandys-casualties-include-chelsea-art-galleries.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Where Creations Faced Destruction<\/a>\u201d, by Allan Kozinn, November 1, 2012) and the Wall Street Journal (\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970204712904578093232563336220.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cultural Community Suffers Losses<\/a>\u201d, November 2, 2012) points up the need for art galleries, like museums, to have disaster plans. Of all the gallery directors quoted in the articles, only two had made any (albeit inadequate) preparations for flooding\u2014one moved works from the basement to the first floor and the other used waterproof storage containers in basement storage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The destruction wrought by Hurricane Sandy to many Chelsea area art galleries described in recent issues of The New York Times (\u201cWhere Creations Faced Destruction\u201d, by Allan Kozinn, November 1, 2012) and the Wall Street Journal (\u201cCultural Community Suffers Losses\u201d, November 2, 2012) points up the need for art galleries, like museums, to have disaster &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2012\/11\/02\/galleries-need-disaster-plans-too\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Galleries Need Disaster Plans Too&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":7011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-disasters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}