Sixteen cultural institutions have been designated as beneficiaries of subsidies from the Bank of America Art Conservation Project 2025. The selected proposals represent a wide range of artistic styles, means and cultural traditions of the United States, Europe, Asia, Australia and Latin America.
The Bank of America art conservation project began in 2010 to address the crucial need to preserve works of art for future generations. Since then, more than 275 subsidies have been granted in 40 countries for the conservation of paintings, sculptures, paper works, manuscripts and archaeological pieces.
This year’s projects include:
Possum Dreaming by Michael Nelson Jagamara and Salute To Slessor’s 5 Bells by John Olsen in Sydney Opera
The Blinding of Samson by Rembrandt Harmensz Rijn at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt
A Rake’s Progress of William Hogarth at the Sir John Soane Museum in London
More than 100 paintings of US presidents in the National Gallery of Portraits of Washington, DC
Roberto Matta’s debutant at the Visual Arts Museum in Chile
Triptych on the east wall of the Rothko Chapel of Houston
The Henriot Family by Pierre-Auguste Renoir at the Barnes de Philadelphia Foundation
McCarthur Binion Roadwork at the Detroit Institute of Arts
Zun Wine Vase owl -shaped at the Minneapolis Institute of Art
Eagle Eye by Nam June Paik at the UNC Hill Museum of ACKLAND
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BOOK NEGRO of hours (Hours Blessed Mary According to the use of the Court) en la Spain Society of America, conservado en collaboración con el fondo de
TEFAF Restoration
Six Gothic works of art at the National Museum of San Carlos in Mexico City
Ezekiel Stakes in the Sainte Chapelle in Paris
Tableau Tir of Niki by Saint Phalle in the modern Stockholm museet
Observing the tide of Komuro Suiun at the Yamatane Museum of Art in Japan
“Art reflects the creativity, ingenuity and history of those who created these works, and as everything, art is vulnerable to the passage of time,” he said Brian Siegel, Global Executive of Art, Culture and Heritage of Bank of America.
“Together with some of the most prestigious cultural institutions in the world, we can help preserve these works for future generations.” Each project is unique and many depend on a wide range of advanced conservation techniques to restore and preserve them, ”he added.
The previous subsidies of the art conservation project have been used to restore iconic works by Claude Monet, Vincent Van Gogh, Sam Gilliam and Jenny Holzer, as well as many other artists whose work is of great importance for cultural heritage and art history.
