What is a paintings pre-flight routine? | Art Institute Shorts @artinstitutechi
What is a paintings pre-flight routine? | Art Institute Shorts  @artinstitutechi
Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
"It’s almost like it has a passport."
Learn more about what it takes to prepare a large-scale contemporary painting for transport with our Director of Paintings and Frames Conservation Allison Langley, and watch as the team's many hands carefully unroll Kerry James Marshall’s “Many Mansions.”
(The work is currently on loan to the Royal Academy in London)
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What is a painting's pre-flight routine? | Art Institute Shorts

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