[AndrewLiptak]

It costs a lot of money to create a frame! You need skilled people to make one, get the proper archival glass to protect whatever you're displaying. There's a lot of work and field best practices that goes into this.

[Aunche]

It doesn't really have to cost that much. You're mostly paying real estate and a professional waiting for business. Framing material, UV glass, and acid free paper are quite cheap. Anti-glare Tru Vue museum glass costs maybe a couple hundred dollars for a medium sized work, but a lot of museums don't even use it because art framers mark it up like crazy.

[lotsofpulp]

>You're mostly paying real estate and a professional waiting for business.

Are these optional? If not, I don't see how this makes sense:

>It doesn't really have to cost that much.

[forgotoldacc]

And then you visit nearly any museum in Europe, and walls are absolutely covered in paintings with almost none of the wall itself visible and most of the paintings not even behind any sort of glass. It's kind of funny.

[kridsdale1]

The STOP OIL NOW people are changing that with their paint.