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Monday, 17 May 2010 18:36 |
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Various Agencies Join in Effort
The Smithsonian is leading a team of cultural organizations to help the Haitian government assess, recover and restore Haiti’s cultural materials damaged by the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake. A building in Port-au-Prince that once housed the United Nations Development Programme will be leased by the Smithsonian. The 7,500-square-foot, three-story building will serve as a temporary conservation site where objects retrieved from the rubble can be assessed, conserved and stored. It will also be the training center for Haitians who will be taking over this conservation effort in the future.
Hector Hyppolite 1945- Badly damaged by the earthquake
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Wednesday, 12 May 2010 21:00 |
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By KATE TAYLOR
Published: May 10, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Susan Blakney, a paintings conservator from New York, scrambled up a mound of rubble left by the collapse of the Episcopal Holy Trinity Cathedral here, searching for small shards of the cathedral’s murals.
The cathedral is a cherished part of this country’s cultural heritage and most of its murals were destroyed in the earthquake that struck here in January. Two from the north transept, though, one depicting the Last Supper and the other the baptism of Christ, remain largely intact.
“It looks like there are some chunks underneath here,” Ms. Blakney, 62, yelled to colleagues working with her last Thursday in an effort to save thousands of works of art damaged in the quake.
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Monday, 10 May 2010 22:03 |
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James Reinl, United Nations Correspondent
Last Updated: April 17. 2010 10:00PM UAE / April 17. 2010 6:00PM GMT
NEW YORK // As aid workers scramble to shelter hundreds of thousands of Haitian earthquake survivors from this month’s torrential rains, lesser-known rescue teams are conducting another kind of last-minute salvage operation.
While the January 12 earthquake levelled the capital, Port-au-Prince, and claimed the lives of some 300,000, the toppling of galleries, museums and cathedrals robbed this Caribbean nation of another precious resource: art.
Braving tropical downpours, rescuers are sifting through the rubble of collapsed galleries to save the remains of an artistic tradition that counts the voodoo priest Hector Hyppolite and Andy Warhol’s protégé Jean-Michel Basquiat among its alumni.
In an impoverished land that has endured decades of brutal and incompetent leadership, Haitian art tells the story of a people who defeated their French colonial masters to become the world’s first black-led republic in the early 19th century.
“We were very worried about the culture in this country because that is one of the things Haiti is so proud of – its art, its artists and its culture,” said Teeluck Bhuwanee, a Haiti-based envoy of the UN’s education agency, Unesco, who heads salvage efforts.
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Wednesday, 21 April 2010 03:04 |
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Museum pleads for help to save Haitian paintings
BY ARI HIRAYAMA THE ASAHI SHIMBUN 2010/04/16 ( http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201004150380.html )
Georges Nader Jr. holds a ripped painting beside his brother, John, president of the Nader Museum. (ARI HIRAYAMA)
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