{"id":2132,"date":"2007-02-22T10:35:21","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T18:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/02\/they_work_hard_for_the_money.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T13:56:15","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T18:56:15","slug":"they_work_hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/02\/they_work_hard.html","title":{"rendered":"They Work Hard For The Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Armory Show is happening this weekend, and <a href=\"http:\/\/ny.metro.us\/metro\/local\/article\/Stockpiling_art_for_the_Armory\/7084.html\">struggling artists are hopeful that they will sell something, anything<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Hundreds of electricians and carpenters yesterday were putting the finishing touches on their transformation of Pier 94 into the venue for this weekend&#8217;s Armory Show.<\/p>\n<p>While they wrapped up, art handlers began to install works that 150 galleries hailing from 22 countries are looking to sell.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of people are down on the Armory because everything is packed together like a big supermarket, but I love it,&#8221; said Bushwick-based artist Zak Smith, 30, who also performs in porn films under the name Zak Sabbath. &#8220;It saves you the trouble of having to go to shows all year long if you&#8217;re working all the time like me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Smith was helping his Chelsea gallery Fredericks &#038; Freiser tack up a series of intricate ink drawings on small pieces of paper called, &#8220;Drawings I did around the time I became a porn star.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Armory Show is happening this weekend, and struggling artists are hopeful that they will sell something, anything: Hundreds of electricians and carpenters yesterday were putting the finishing touches on their transformation of Pier 94 into the venue for this weekend&#8217;s Armory Show. While they wrapped up, art handlers began to install works that 150 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts_entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}