PINTA ART FAIR

RBA was selected as the “Preferred Vendor” for the Pinta Art Fair held in New York City on November 13-16, 2008. Pinta, now in its second year, highlights Latin American Art. The exhibition included 55 galleries from many countries in Latin America, Europe, and the United States.

LEFT: Racine Berkow of RBA pictured with members of the staff of El Museo del Bario
at the Pinta Art Fair
Julian Zugazagoitia, Director
Racine Berkow
Elvis Fuentes, Associate Curator

http://www.pintaart.com/

RBA TRANSPORTS PAINTINGS BY IRAQI ARTIST, DR. ALA BASHIR, TO THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ARAB ART IN QATAR.

The RBA team, under the watchful eye of Patricia Sherwin Garland, Senior Painting Conservator of the Yale University Art Gallery, rolled and packed seven works from the Corvus Art Center in New Haven to ship to Qatar.

To learn more about Dr. Bashir, please see the following:

http://www.wtopnews.com/?sid=1498798&nid=114

RBA Transports “Ashes and Snow” Exhibition to Mexico City

RBA is proud to have been chosen to facilitate the shipment of Gregory Colbert’s acclaimed “Ashes and Snow” exhibition to its current location in the historic Zocalo, the ceremonial central square of Mexico City. Since its debut in Venice in 2002, the exhibition of more than 50 large-scale photographs and films depicting extraordinary interactions between humans and animals has been seen by more than a million and-a-half visitors in New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo. The exhibition is housed in a permanent travelling venue, “The Nomadic Museum,” a sustainable structure created from shipping containers and other recyclable and reusable materials.

http://www.ashesandsnow.org/

RBA Wins Contract to Relocate the Robert E. Lee House

Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington, Virginia
http://www.nps.gov/arho/

RBA was awarded the contract to relocate the contents from the historic Robert E. Lee House overlooking Arlington National Cemetery. The contract was a public tender based on specifications prepared by the National Park Service. The winning bid was selected through a combination of price, credentials, and references.

Contents from the house, including mirrors, paintings, and period furnishings were removed from the premises and put into storage at a temporary location while the house is being refurbished.

The photo at left illustrates the scissor lift used to take some of the furnishings out the window because they were too big to be carried down the narrow stairwell.