The Pulitzer: The Beauty of Crates

Today's Museums section of the New York Times has a great article about Rita Gomez, the Getty's chief packing preparator and acclaimed crate builder.  I love stories about art handling and installation -- it's the nitty gritty background details that you would never otherwise know.   Looking at an exhibition, it's tough to imagine everything that had to happened to get those works of art into a museum and onto the wall. 

I was emailing about this with our registrar Helene who said, "Like all or most registrars, I find the behind-the-scenes aspects of  museum exhibitions completely fascinating.  Whenever I visit a museum exhibition, I wonder what the object crates look like and how they are configured on the inside. I often wish I could have been there to see the complicated crating and installation jobs. To construct the crates and travel frames we use for objects here at the Pulitzer we hire experienced crate makers with a good understanding of object materials and construction."

Here are a few of my favorite Pulitzer install posts from the past. Click here for a post on putting Doris Salcedo's Atrabiliarios into the wall, here for how you install a Roni Horn that weighs as much as a Volkswagen, and here for how we craned Judd boxes into our building.  (Rachel)