Teamsters from Local 814 who handle art for Sotheby's have been locked out for almost a month and a half. That hasn't stopped them from donating their time for a good cause.
ArtInfo reported yesterday,
...the art handlers will pick up their hammers again tomorrow to hang a benefit show at Kleio Projects Gallery on New York’s Lower East Side to raise money for arts education in New York City schools. A few art handlers met the gallery’s director, Christine O’ Heron, when they were handing out flyers last week in Chelsea. She told them about her benefit, and they volunteered to hang the show. “We’re just anxious to get back to work,” said (Local 814 President Jason) Ide. “We love our jobs.”
(BTW we think it's tremendously appropriate that the Teamsters are hanging an exhibition called "Self Portrait as Monster Truck.")
ArtInfo was impressed with Local 814's creativity:
In addition to staging loud, whistle-filled rallies outside Sotheby’s, they took to the Hamptons Squash Tournament last month to hand out pamphlets entitled “Sotheby’s Squashes Teamsters.”And it didn't even notice how the Teamsters protested Sotheby's as its fall season began with an auction of Chinese art: With signs and banners that said, “Sotheby’s: Bad for Art” and “Abuse," “Mistreat” and “Disgrace” in Chinese.
