Working in the sphere of fine art shipping for 20+ years, we can name some sad examples where valuable objects and artworks were mistakenly left in packages or crates and eventually discarded. Please be assured that this does not apply to containers packed or unpacked...
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Rules of Art Packing: Pack List
Art Shipping Secrets, or How Modern Artists Transport Their Creations
Have you ever visited a premier art show, like Art Basel? Pavilions, booths, and exhibition halls are filled with a variety of fine art objects. Antique pieces and modern art installations, large sculptures and fragile items of different forms – all of them cause visitors’...
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Fine Art News
Fine Art Shippers New York is happy to present the latest fine art news featuring top stories and breaking news from around the globe. So what’s happened in the past few weeks in the amazing world of art? Andy Warhol star-studded exhibition in Toronto To...
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If You Need a Freight Shipment – You Need a Crate!
Sometimes we get requests from our customers to send their softpacked works of art to various destinations by freight or via FedEx and other package services that are, in fact, the same freight in terms of handling. Well, in most of the cases, we don’t...
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Mystery of the Art Market: Is Famous German Artist a Farce?
The unprecedented scandal has erupted around the mysterious Dada artist Karl Waldmann, whose works have been repeatedly sold at German auctions over the years. The experts have concluded that this personality is just a figment of imagination created by a group of swindlers who made...
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Cost of Art Shipping Services
Most of our customers rightly believe that the cost of art transportation services varies relative to distance and volume shipped. For example, if they need to ship a particular work of art of a certain size, let’s say, from their studio in New York to...
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Another Modigliani’s Painting Brings $170 Million at Christie’s New York
Amedeo Modigliani’s work from the famous series “Reclining Nude” has set a new record and become the world’s second most expensive painting ever sold at auction. On November 9, at Christie's New York auction in Manhattan, the buyer laid out $170.4 million for this masterpiece...
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Used and Empty Crates
Storing empty crates may seem profitable. Well, maybe this is true, in some cases. Museum crates and custom crates, even those that have been already used, are valuable, and sometimes we store them indeed. It may be a good option for the customer who needs...
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