 New Year - New TruckRBA is pleased to announce the addition of a new air-ride, climate-controlled truck to our fleet of vehicles. Our new 20 foot, high cube vehicle will be used primarily in New York City and the tri-state area for local fine art transport and for cartage to and from the airports.Our team of professional fine art handlers is available for the full range of art handling services including installations, de-installations, soft-packing, crating and local transport. Our rates are competitive. Call or email our office for bookings and availability.  Seoul Museum of Art: “Andy Warhol, The Greatest”RBA transported the largest retrospective of Andy Warhol ever shown in Korea. The exhibition contains some of the highlights and most important works in the collection of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.www.warhol.co.kr  Crawford Art Gallery; Cork, Ireland: “Art in an Age of Anxiety: Terror and the Sublime”Included in this thought provoking exhibition whose subject matter explores the spirit of our times, is the artwork of Virginia artist, Jim Sanborn. Themes in Sanborn’s work have included "making the invisible visible", with many sculptures focusing on topics such as magnetism, secret messages, and mysteries of atomic reactions. Sanborn’s sculptures are in many private and public collections and he has received numerous federal commissions for public sculpture. RBA was selected to transport this sculpture to Ireland.www.crawfordartgallery.ie  RBA TRANSPORTS PRINCESS DIANA’S DRESSESRBA arranged and supervised the packing and shipping of several dresses once belonging to the late Princess Diana of Wales. They were transported from Kensington Palace in London to Orlando, Florida. The dresses were hand-carried aboard British Airways by Racine Berkow. An additional cargo shipment containing dresses and gowns designed by Catherine Walker Studio was returned to the designer’s atelier in London.www.princessdianadresses.com  DIA: BEACON: “Antoni Tapies: The Resources of Rhetoric”Dia and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, organized an exhibition by the venerable Spanish artist in which his works are compared to the works in Dia’s collection of American and German art from the Sixties and Seventies. RBA coordinated the transportation of these works, including several extremely large and oversized canvases.www.diabeacon.org  MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: “Amsterdam/New Amsterdam: The Worlds of Henry Hudson”In 1609, Henry Hudson, an Englishman sailing for the Dutch East India Company, made the first exploration of what is now New York Harbor and of the majestic river that today bears his name. His voyage of discovery led to the creation of the Dutch West India Company and ultimately to the founding of New Netherland, including its trading post at the mouth of the river — New Amsterdam, now known as New York City. Included in the exhibit are rare 16th and 17th century objects and documents from the Netherlands which RBA is transporting to and from the United States.www.mcny.org  PINTA ART FAIRRBA 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 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: www.alabashir.com  RBA Transports “Ashes and Snow” Exhibition to Mexico CityRBA 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.www.ashesandsnow.org  RBA Wins Contract to Relocate the Robert E. Lee HouseArlington National CemeteryArlington, Virginia www.nps.gov 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. |