Moving valuable items, such as luxury watches, jewelry, designer clothing, and fine art, across borders involves careful planning and strict attention to detail. Take, for example, people in Turkey who often look to international markets for brands like Seiko that can be hard to find...
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How to Safely Transport Luxury Items and Fine Art Internationally
How to Ship Framed Artwork with Glass? Main Safety Precautions
Shipping art objects containing glass elements is always a task of extra complexity. How to ship framed artwork with glass so that your precious art object remains safe and undamaged? The good news is that it’s possible to minimize the risks, provided you prepare properly...
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Water Tanks as Artistic Installations in Modern Spaces
Have you ever considered incorporating water tanks into your modern architectural design? With the right approach, these practical utilities can transform into astounding artistic installations. These intriguing adaptations add to your space's aesthetic and functional value. In today's increasingly sustainable world, creating artistic installations from...
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Artist Talk: Alejandra Aristizabal on Making a Difference Through Art
Alejandra Aristizabal is an internationally recognized Colombian artist whose work draws inspiration from traditional culture. She creates impressive pieces using fique, a plant cultivated by local farmers. In an interview with Fine Art Shippers, she discussed her complex creative process, collaboration with communities, and the...
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Things You Can’t Ignore When You Ship Artwork Internationally
As soon as you decide to ship artwork internationally, you will need to master all the nuances of preparing for this undertaking and implementing it in practice. The procedure requires much preparatory work and comes with nuances of cross-border art moving, which you should know...
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How GPS Trackers Help Minimize Theft and Damage in Fine Art Shipping
Shipping fine art is more complex—and riskier—than ever. With the art market booming, the stakes for theft and damage are at an all-time high. In fact, in 2022, global art sales reached $67.8 billion, with high-profile pieces fetching record prices at auction. When paintings sell...
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How to Refurbish Your Vintage Eyeglasses
Vintage fashion has evolved in recent years beyond simply wearing hand-me-downs. In a piece on how vintage clothing became trendy from GQ, writer Samuel Hine defines the ongoing vintage fashion trend as a "new preoccupation with the old." Today, the demand for vintage and retro...
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The Time Is Always Now: A New Exhibition of Black and African Artists at the PMA
A new large-scale exhibition of contemporary Black and African diasporic art has opened its doors at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) under the title “The Time Is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure.” The symbolism of the exhibition’s title points to the urgency...
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