Welcome to the Fine Art Shipping inaugural blog! We will be updating a couple of times a week as noteworthy projects, articles, or art-related info comes our way. For those unfamiliar with our company, Fine Art Shipping is a comprehensive provider of art handling and shipping services to the professional community and to the general public. This is our 26th year in business but our very first blog! We envision this as a place where “civilians” as well as art nerds can come to see what we are up to we are up to in the very custom, and sometimes wacky, and always busy, world of art shipping.
We will provide information on art handling techniques and materials as well as links to artists, galleries, museums, exhibitions, and art events that cross our radar. We welcome feedback, suggestions for topics, and related links. always!
The other pages on this blogsite will tell you about our famous Los Angeles to San Francisco shuttle (see SHUTTLE) and give a rundown of our key players (ABOUT US). All other requests for our services information, quote requests, or art shipping queries should be direct to us through our website (www.fineartship.com) which offers a choice of ways to contact us and obtain such information. That is basically the “business end” and this is the fun stuff.
Fine Art Shipping alumus Ian Patrick has a one man show up through March 22nd at the Karyn Lovegrove Gallery in the 6150 hotbed of galleries including ACME, Paul Kopeikin, Daniel Weinberg and others. Opening night was the usual parking frenzy with black SUV’s duking it out for parking and the beer and wine flowing like, well, beer and wine. What is it with Grolsh at openings? We parked a couple of miles away and had a pleasant hike over lawns and snails getting from a residential area back to Wilshire. Can you park at that bank nearby or not? The signs say tow away but there were plenty of art patrons apparently game to take the risk. We like our Volvo and didn’t want to risk a tow. Parking aside, it was great to see this cluster of our customers so packed with, we hope, art buyers! Good for them is good for us.
Ian can occasionally still be prevailed upon to come in and pack, crate or handle an installation in our time of need. Although given the success of this show those days, alas, could be waning, if not waned. Following in the footsteps of Aaron Morse, another FIne Art Shipping alumnus, now represented by Bob and Randy over at ACME Gallery. Aaron is waaay to busy to work with the likes of us these days. We applaud the succces of both these stellar young men; and we do our best not to bemoan the galleries stealing our best workers just when we have become addicted to them. 
