{"id":7323,"date":"2012-12-19T15:23:04","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T20:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=7323"},"modified":"2012-12-19T15:23:04","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T20:23:04","slug":"a-timely-response-is-everything-as-sometimes-its-too-late-to-salvage-damaged-works-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2012\/12\/19\/a-timely-response-is-everything-as-sometimes-its-too-late-to-salvage-damaged-works-of-art\/","title":{"rendered":"A Timely Response Is Everything As Sometimes It\u2019s Too Late to Salvage Damaged Works of Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7351\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7351\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/07cityroom-flood-blog480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7351\" title=\"07cityroom-flood-blog480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/07cityroom-flood-blog480-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faic.wpenginepowered.com\/conservators-converse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2012\/12\/07cityroom-flood-blog480-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faic.wpenginepowered.com\/conservators-converse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2012\/12\/07cityroom-flood-blog480.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7351\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Appleton for The New York Times<br \/>Workers cleaned out a sculpture studio on Friday in the basement of Westbeth Artists Housing in West Village, which was heavily damaged by flooding during Hurricane Sandy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>That there are limits to the ability to salvage large numbers of drowned art works was brought to the public\u2019s attention by Christopher Maag in his New York Times article, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/12\/07\/a-lifetime-of-work-destroyed-at-westbeth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lifetimes of Artworks Destroyed at Artists\u2019 Colony<\/a>\u201d (December 8, 2012). Maag wrote about the many artists in the Westbeth Artists Housing development who lost years of their work in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy when, due to safety concerns, they were not allowed to go down into the flooded basement where the works were stored until nine days after the storm by which time the works were in such a bad state that they had to be trashed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That there are limits to the ability to salvage large numbers of drowned art works was brought to the public\u2019s attention by Christopher Maag in his New York Times article, \u201cLifetimes of Artworks Destroyed at Artists\u2019 Colony\u201d (December 8, 2012). Maag wrote about the many artists in the Westbeth Artists Housing development who lost years &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2012\/12\/19\/a-timely-response-is-everything-as-sometimes-its-too-late-to-salvage-damaged-works-of-art\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Timely Response Is Everything As Sometimes It\u2019s Too Late to Salvage Damaged Works of Art&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":7351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7323","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\/7323","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=7323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}