Artwork that can hang from a single central point can adapt to almost any hanging system. Instead, if you're thinking about renovating your gallery or display with new hanging hardware, focus on your most complicated pieces. Basing your changes around the bulkiest, heaviest, and most fragile pieces mean you'll find a system that works for them all.

Why does a rail system work for pieces of art that need to hang from two points?

Short of falling art and property damage, the worst thing that can happen is a crooked art piece. Not only will it niggle at the corner of your thoughts, it can throw off your grid displays. It's even worse if you use traditional screws and nails because a crooked piece means having to fix one hole and make another. But a rail system often has ratcheted placement so you can hang your artwork straight without even a level.

How can a rail system protect your walls from heavy art?

Heavy art doesn't damage your wall all at once. Most screws and supports are designed to dig in, especially if the weight starts to make it dip down at an angle. But, even though this provides you with a bit of a warning, all it does is cause more wall damage and larger holes. But rail systems have multiple points of contact with a wall so the total weight of a hanging piece of art is distributed along the whole rail instead of a single stressed point.

For more reasons why a rail system can help with even your most cumbersome art, go to Systematic Art here.