“A Sense of Place,” a permanent exhibition by Daniel Hauben at Bronx Community College, NYC

In 2009, Bronx Artist Daniel Hauben was commissioned to create original artwork for a new library and instructional building designed by  Robert A.M. Stern Architects and being constructed on the campus of Bronx Community College. Two large paintings and twenty smaller ones were completed in December 2011 for inclusion in the interior design of the building.  The artist contacted RBA in June 2012 for assistance with the installation of these beautiful paintings.  RBA coordinated with the artist, architect, and construction supervisors to create a plan for the installation.  Our team was on site for two days making sure that every detail was perfect.  The building is now open for the college students’ use and the paintings add a wonderful, warm historical feel to the interior.  You can see some of the works that were installed as well as other artwork by Daniel Hauben at his website.

www.danielhauben.com.

www.bcc.cuny.edu

RBA Names New Vice President

RBA (RACINE BERKOW ASSOCIATES, INC.) is pleased to announce the appointment of Sean L. O’Malley as Vice President and Operations Manager, effective August 1st, 2012.

O’Malley joins RBA as the company celebrates its 25th anniversary and expansion. With more than two decades of experience in the international fine arts packing, shipping and handling business, O’MALLEY most recently served as General Manager of the New York office of one of America’s largest fine art transport companies.

O’Malley was elected to the Steering Committee of ICEFAT (International Convention of Exhibition and Fine Art Transporters) at their annual conference in Helsinki in October 2003 and served in that capacity until October 2010. He has participated in professional panels at the American Association of Museums conference and been a guest speaker at New York University. He was chosen as part of a select group of industry professionals to consult with 3M on packing material applications. O’Malley graduated with BA degree in Business Administration from Jacksonville University which he earned while serving in the United States Navy.

“Sean’s knowledge and expertise will be invaluable as RBA continues to add in-house fine art handling and storage services to our established US and international freight forwarding and customs brokerage business,” said RBA President Racine Berkow.

RBA Returns Sunken Treasure to Spain

Accepting a challenge of almost “Mission Impossible” proportions, RBA succeeded in helping Spain export a treasure trove of antique coins, weighing 17 tons and valued at $500,000,000 from a storage facility in Florida to Madrid.  When a U.S. court ruled in Spain’s favor, RBA accepted the task of getting the cargo swiftly and safely to MacDill Air Force Base where two waiting Spanish C-130 transport planes would whisk it out of the country. With cooperation and assistance from both the United States and Spanish Air Forces, RBA supervised inventorying, packing, and transport of the cargo salvaged from the vessel, Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes, for its final journey home.

www.AirForwarders.org

In Small Things Remembered: The Early Years of U.S.-Afghan Relations

Curated by Meridian International and sponsored by the US Department of State, this exhibition features 81 reproductions of photographs and documents that recount the rich, historical ties between the United States and Afghanistan. These facsimiles, dating from 1911 to the 1970s, follow the first collaborations between U.S. and Afghan engineers, educators, and entrepreneurs; the numerous official visits between U.S. and Afghan leaders; and the face-to-face exchanges that connected ordinary citizens from both nations. Subsequently, the State Department commissioned Meridian to create six smaller copies for travel around Afghanistan. One copy of the exhibit opened at a public venue in Kabul in July 2011 and, together with the satellite versions, will help advance America’s cultural outreach efforts. In June of 2011 RBA had the challenging task of shipping the exhibition to Kabul.

www.meridian.org

Pompeii The Exhibit: Life and Death in the Shadow of Vesuvius

Curated by the Soprintendenza di Archaeologica Napoli e Pompei (SANP), and organized by Running Subway Productions, Pompeii The Exhibit: Life and Death in the Shadow of Vesuvius presented the catastrophic destruction and subsequent preservation of the city of Pompeii after the massive eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. Through displays of body casts, fragile frescoes, gold coins, jewelry, basic utensils, burial urns, gladiator armor, and even a loaf of bread preserved by the volcanic ash, the everyday existence of the citizens of Pompeii comes to life.  RBA is proud to have assisted with the import, delivery, and return to Italy for this fabulous show.

www.discoverytsx.com

Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1964-1977

RBA is enormously pleased to have been the principal transport company for the acclaimed exhibition Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1964–1977,which has concluded its year-long tour at Dia:Beacon and CCS Bard.  Co-organized by Dia Art Foundation and CCS Bard, the first North American retrospective of the work of Blinky Palermo (1943–1977) was curated by Lynne Cooke and has traveled from: Los Angeles County Museum of Art (October 31, 2010–January 16, 2011) to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (February 24–May 15, 2011) and the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and Dia: Beacon (June 24 - October 31, 2011).  RBA coordinated the logistics for all the international loans from several major museums and lenders in Germany and Switzerland.  These loans were accompanied by several couriers and required the highest level of care and handling.

www.bard.edu

www.diaart.org

www.hirshhorn.si.edu

www.lacma.org

SALPICA: A dialogue Between Latino Artists

RBA is proud to have provided the packing, crate construction, and transportation for SALPICA.  This exhibition, the final product of a cultural exchange between twenty-one U.S. and Latin American artists, travelled from Massachusetts to Bolivia, Colombia, Guatemala, and Ecuador.

Organized by Ilan Stevens of Amhearst College;  Julian Zugazagoitia, Director of the El Museo del Barrio in New York; and Mark Protti at the Center for Training and Development in Massachusetts, this exhibition showcased 18 artworks reflecting the artists’ experiences as they travelled in both the U.S. and the home countries of the South American artists, sharing knowledge with each other and engaging in dialogues about their craft.

Upon conclusion of the tour RBA returned the artworks to each artist in his or her home state or country – no small task as customs procedures can be quite complicated in certain areas of South America.

www.itd-amherst.org

Beloved Civil War-Era Artifact Returns Home

RBA assisted THE CITADEL with organizing the transport of its  historical  emblematic flag, “Big Red”, to return to the school for a special 150th anniversary.

www.citadel.edu

New Year - New Truck

RBA 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.

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

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

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

www.pintaart.com

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.

www.ashesandsnow.org