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Bank of America Awards Art Conservation Grants

Twenty-four cultural institutions have been named as grant recipients of the 2024 Bank of America Art Conservation Project. They represent a diverse range of artistic styles, media and cultural traditions across the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, United Kingdom, France, Italy, The Netherlands, South Africa, India and Japan. Since 2010, Bank of America’s Art Conservation Project has supported the preservation of paintings, sculptures, and archeological and architectural pieces of critical importance to cultural heritage and...

Bank of America: Reimagining Access to Art

Brian Siegel, Global Arts, Culture & Heritage Executive, Bank of America, tells Arts & Collections how the financial institution brings art to its local communities For more than 50 years, Bank of America (BofA) and our predecessor institutions have been collecting art as way to enhance our corporate offices and to demonstrate our connection with the local communities we serve. Today, that collection has grown to more than 30,000 works of art, including paintings, fine...

Bank of America Art Conservation Project: Restoring Assyrian Reliefs

With input from Bank of America’s Rena DeSisto and the Brooklyn Museum’s Lisa Bruno, Arts & Collections takes a detailed look into the Art Conservation Project and its ongoing efforts to restore six Assyrian reliefs Since 2010, Bank of America has provided grants for not-for-profit museums to facilitate the conservation of significant artwork and historical treasures. Today, the Art Conservation Project has executed approximately 150 such operations, covering artefacts from 30 countries across six of...

Back from the Brink: Bank of America Interview

Rena DeSisto at the Bank of America and the Smithsonian Institution’s Dr Richard Kurin share their perspectives on the Cultural Rescue Initiative and its objectives to preserve art’s identity, heritage and history. Earlier this year, Bank of America gifted $1 million to the Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative (SCRI)—the programme’s largest corporate donation to date. The SCRI’s mission is simple: to recover and protect cultural heritage under threat. Coordinating this mammoth operation, however, is far from...

Art in Our Communities: An Interview with Bank of America

‘I think that art is a window into pretty much everything that affects humanity—that’s how I look at it’—Rena DeSisto, global arts and culture executive at Bank of America Rena DeSisto and Allen Blevins from Bank of America give Arts & Collections an insight into their Art in Our Communities project. Since its inception in 2008, Bank of America has used its Art in Our Communities scheme to reach out to non-profit museums and galleries, helping to...

Safeguarding the Arts

Arts & Collections speaks to Bank of America’s Rena DeSisto about the corporation’s Art Conservation Project. Since 2010, the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Art Conservation Project has been providing grants to not-for-profit museums around the globe to conserve historically or culturally significant works of art in danger of deterioration. To this day, the company has completed 100 of such projects in 29 different countries spanning six of the seven continents. Last year, Bank of...

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