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Art Handler magazine founder Clynton Lowry. Photo by Maayan Strauss The last two months of 2019 I began working part-time at [New York gallery] Salon 94. They hired me to be their “freelance art handler” every Thursday and Friday. I was doing condition reports in a tiny storage space inside an art warehouse near the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. I worked there right up until the stay-at-home order. The warehouse had a crew of guys who were in a metal band who the owner had assigned to more or less run the place. They looked like some Bushwick version of Duck Dynasty. They perfected that art-handler aura of barely visible disdain for the artwork and obsessive focus on the task. It was just a means to an end, enough money for beer and rent and maybe gas money to go on tour, which was the same for me, except I had no car, no band, and no plans of going anywhere. ....