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New York, NY, October 5, 2011

The World Monuments Fund announced the 2012 World Monuments Watch at a press conference this morning.  The 2012 Watch includes 67 sites representing 41 countries and territories, with 6 sites from the U.S.  The New York Studio School is extremely pleased to be selected as one of the sites.  In the words of WMF President Bonnie Burnham, the Watch is “a call to action on behalf of endangered cultural-heritage sites across the globe.  And while these sites are historic, they are also very much of the present – integral parts of the lives of the people who come in contact with them every day.”   For more information, click here

The New York Studio School was included in an article in the Arts & Design section of the New York Times about the work of Robert Winthrop Chanler, highlighting the Whitney Studio room which contains a Chanler installation and the research being done currently on the room.  Read more here.

The New York Studio School was included in an article in the Arts & Design section of the New York Times covering the Whitney Museum of American Art's expansion to Chelsea and extensive exhibitions that will take place at the museum this season highlighting the history of the museum and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's vision. Read more here.

We would like to thank Lauren Drapala, the Architectural Conservation Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania and the World Monuments Fund for all of the work they have done to research the conservation potential of the Whitney Studio.  Please click here to see the website that has been created to document this research.