STARGAZERS’: Elizabeth Catlett in Conversation With 21 Contemporary Artists

The Bronx Museum of the Arts showcased STARGARZERS’ to highlight Elizabeth Catlett’s role as an innovative African American female artist and her influence on later generations of contemporary artists. This exhibition featured over 40 prints and sculptures of her work that had been created from the 1960’s to the present day. In addition, Stargazer’s also featured 21 international contemporary artists, of whom, shared similar attention to practice, technique and passion for exploring issues including race, gender, memory and politics.

RBA organized the collection of artwork throughout the Northeast and properly delivered the works needed to realize the exhibition.

www.bronxmuseum.org

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

RBA on CNN

The Air Freight Forwarders Association selected RBA as a spokesperson to demonstrate how the new TSA regulations impacted on smaller specialized freight forwarding companies. CNN visited our warehouse and we appeared on television across the USA.

www.cnn.com

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

The Andy Warhol Museum, “Twisted Pair: Marcel Duchamp/Andy Warhol”

This exhibition presented a variety of works from both Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) and Andy Warhol (1928-1987). Both of these individuals have had a profound impact on contemporary art and continue to do so. “Twisted Pair” not only included artwork from these legendary artists but also contained Warhol’s personal papers, which made this exhibition the first to explore Warhol’s deep appreciation of influence of Duchamp.

RBA has the pleasure if coordinating the shipping of artifacts into the USA as well as making sure that the objects were delivered to the museum in a timely and efficient manner.

www.warhol.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

Newark Museum Presents “Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s-50s”

RBA assisted the Newark Museum in coordinating the importation of loans from numerous Latin American countries for inclusion in this ground-breaking exhibition. After the Newark viewing, the exhibition will travel to Fort Worth, Texas before the works are returned to their owner/lenders.

www.newarkmuseum.org

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.

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 DRESSES

RBA 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 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 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 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

RBA Wins Contract to Relocate the Robert E. Lee House

Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington, 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.