The Art Of Hanging Art Blog

There are many advantages to using a cable display system in your home, workplace, gallery or museum. Not only is a cable display system practically invisible, with thin nylon or steel cables hanging from the ceiling, but it's also flexible, allowing you to create a number of different displays. Some people like to create symmetrical displays where it seems like...

A bare wall can look too plain and need some action, but adding some art isn’t always the easiest thing to do. Deciding on how you’re going to go about bringing a bare wall to life can be a big decision. Systematic Art (SA) offers you plenty of options that not only make the decision of hanging art, pictures, signs...

Owning art is both a privilege and a responsibility. Fine art is both a wonderful way to class up your space as well as a great investment for the future, so it's only natural that you would want to ensure it stays in good condition. Obviously, this means you can't (or at least shouldn't) just nail your paintings up against...

Art is one of the few universal elements of human culture. While it may differ from place to place and throughout the ages, art as an entity has remained regardless of who you are or where you come from. It's for this reason and many others that those who collect art on either a commercial or personal level should have...

Although you might know, at the back of your mind, that a piece of art is hung with the help of cables, rails, hooks etc., you don't want to have to see these when you go to a museum or gallery. You want the process of viewing and appreciating the art to be seamless; seeing the mechanism with which the...

There are many situations in which you might want to use a cable hanging system. This is especially true when you have more than one thing to hang. Plus, a cable hanging system is very flexible and allows you to move your artworks/pictures around and add new ones as well. It prevents you from having to make ugly holes in...

A standoff is a small piece of hardware that can be used to display many things—from artworks and photos to signs. In fact, standoffs are often used to display business signs which tell people the name of the business. For example, if you go to a lawyer's office or a doctor's office, the office is usually within a building. So...

The picture hanging system is the most common method for displaying art in art galleries and museums. This is because it is convenient and helps to minimize wall repairs. This system has many substantial benefits relating to the amount of time required to set up or change the artwork and reduce costs. Just to be clear, there are numerous benefits...

Sometimes, you want to display several things in a row from top to bottom, either in a display case or in a gallery or even in your home. You may have a number of artworks or photos to display that are all the same size, and you may not want to give any one of them more importance than the...

Hanging art on the walls of your home is one of the best ways to personalize your space and add color to your home. You may think that decorating a home with visual art will inevitably cause damage to the walls. It can be frustrating to try and hang artwork and find you’ve hung it at the wrong height, made...