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The Carbon Cost of Culture: How the Art World Is Confronting Its Shipping Emissions

Alexander Bradford, who leads business development and sustainability at global fine art logistics company Gander & White, explores how the art world is beginning to confront the carbon footprint of its shipping practices. Bradford offers an insider’s look at the systemic challenges and promising solutions emerging within fine art logistics, arguing that if the art world wants to remain a cultural leader, it must also lead on sustainability.

By Alexander Bradford

Art Fair Confidential: An Insider’s Look at Staging the Armory Shows of Yesteryear

Setting up hundreds of gallery booths in a 72-hour window meant managing a mix of skilled art handlers and freelance labor with no art background. The result was a strange amalgamation of precision and practicality, with masterpieces and forklifts sharing the same crowded and chaotic space.

By J. McMahon

The Best Lesson I Learned on the Road as a Traveling Art Handler

Atelier 4 founder and CEO Jonathan Schwartz recalls an early job in his career when he misplaced a Jasper Johns and how the mishap inspired him to always have at least two art handlers on every truck.

By Jonathan C. Schwartz

The Art of Shipping Art: How Works Are Moved to and from the Fairs

By Daniel Grant

shipping art

The Carbon Cost of Culture: How the Art World Is Confronting Its Shipping Emissions

Art Fair Confidential: An Insider’s Look at Staging the Armory Shows of Yesteryear

The Best Lesson I Learned on the Road as a Traveling Art Handler

The Art of Shipping Art: How Works Are Moved to and from the Fairs

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