This is a typical scene.  A group of individuals who work really hard together, day in, day out.  Long hours, sometimes intense, and then we invite out community and the world to come see what we have and how w […]

So is nerd-dom spelled with two Ds or one?  Not sure, but I thought two read better.  Anyway, we love Tom Sachs at our shop and thought we’d create a short series of video introductions for his video works.  In th […]

Here’s a quick image set of us getting through dozens of frames that we had to refinish.  The original frame finish was an unattractive crackled silver and gold.  Unusable for the museums current character.   […]

Here’s a quick behind the scenes look at assembling a faux cabaret for the exhibition. Much of it was built and painted off-site and what you see here are the steps to assemble. It’s amazing how the most minimal […]

This is part of our Game On Series, a series of interactives throughout the museum spaces; this one is called Arts and Letters. The interactive consists of a colorful pouch, a few pencils, a few pads of paper, a […]

We had to find a way to quickly wrap an old painting with its ornate frame for a 4 hour road trip. The frame extends beyond the main body of the frame and this was our challenge- how do we wrap the work so it […]

As you can see from the pictures below, we were faced with a difficult installation.  This piece is meant to float up a bit on one of its legs.  This is and makes it very graceful, but what about defending a […]

I can’t find a manufacturer name on this box! Anyone have a source for boxes like this?

In the pictures below, you’ll notice white straps were used to bind the wrapped work to the cardboard holder. I […]

Nothing groundbreaking to see here, but sometimes simplicity can be revelatory. We wanted to make this rolling table by the artist Barbara Spring a little *less* rolling. Some monofilament and pan head screws and […]

What do all of you think?  Originally we went with things painted all the same, through and through.  I think it was both an aesthetic decision as well as pragmatic. We had $750,000 worth of case work done all a […]

This was a very promising product. Was.   MMMOOOORORRREEE here…

Put your comments below if you have tried this or want to second the vote for 3M to package this into something usable for all of us.  I h […]

This cable system can be used in any type of museum.  It’s elegant and strong.  Next time I might go for a solid rod style system, which Arakawa may indeed have, as the cable can sway a bit.  Probably want to av […]

We use spray adhesive to bond 60 lb. or 80 lb. paper to 4 ply mat board.  We had used 3M’s super 77 for a long time, but wanted to branch out for cost reason, 3M can cost upwards of 3 times the amount of […]

Here’s a very quick post; something to reflect on, something to riff on.  I may or may not do it the same way in the future, but I adopted this mount.  Give it a look.  Send us yours.  Oh, by the way, these are […]

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Here’s a story about a product that I love very much, but it can be fussy. I’ll do a full article about the love I have for this material later, but for now know that I can print 24″ wide […]

Here are a few option for installing labels on pedestals.  It can be difficult to read a label when there is a lot of extended text.  So we put them on a plexiglass slant.  In one case the gallery gets more be […]

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Welcome to our first review, the New York City Freelance Art Handlers Calendar for 2015. Was there a calendar for 2014? Will there be a 2016?? I’m not sure, but what I do know is that this is a […]

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No, I don’t work for Ikea, but hey do donate a certain amount to our education programs every year.  I wanted to take a moment to show how nice these work in an art museum as well as add a word of […]