Mark Lombardi

I had to mention in my research the beautiful and eloquent drawings of Mark Lombardi. Particularly today, 3 years after the attack on the World Trade Center, it is curious to tell this story. Only five weeks after 9/11 attack, the Whitney Museum of American Art was contacted by an F.B.I. agent who wanted to obtain a copy of Lombardi’s BCCI-ICIC & FAB drawing or, if it wasn’t possible, to analyze the actual piece at the Museum. Almost at the same time, Pierogi, Mark Lombardi’s gallery received a phone call from a “lead investigador into the September 11 attacks”. Federal Investigators wanted to obtain information pertaining to wealthy Saudi Artabian terrorist Osama Bin Laden and his Al Qaeda network.

As Robert Hobbs, editor of “Mark Lombardi: Global Networks”, puts it “if government investigators had merely decided to include select members of the art world in thei investigation into the 9/11 attacks, that fact alone would have been newsworthy. But when an F.B.I. agent consulted a work of art for clues pertaining to terrorist financing, she unwittingly made history.”



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Copyright Mark Lombardi