How One Foundation Is Making Waves With Art And Social Activism
Release Date:
09/05/2013
The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and its first Director of Philanthropy, Risë Wilson, are profiled by Fast Company.
Arts
Penn Announces $1.28 Million Grant for Digital Archaeological Archive
Release Date:
08/01/2013
The grant from the Leon Levy Foundation to the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology will support a collaboration with the British Museum to create a digital archive of archaeological excavations of the ancient...
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Awards $41.5 Million in Grants
Release Date:
07/20/2013
The grants are to organizations working in the areas of education, health, the arts and social welfare, and will also go in part to the foundation’s three-year commitment to help address the effects of the prolonged socioeconomic crisis in Greece.
Art Groups Fear Losing a Mayor, and His Money
Release Date:
07/01/2013
With less than six months remaining in Michael Bloomberg’s tenure as mayor, and the recent end of a two-year grant program from Bloomberg Philanthropies, many artists and art-supporting organizations have grown concerned.
Ford Foundation Appoints Cara Mertes to Lead JustFilms
Release Date:
06/03/2013
The Ford Foundation has also announced the appointment of Cara Mertes as Director of its JustFilms program. JustFilms has supported more than 80 documentary films in its first three years.
Bloomberg Gives Sept. 11 Museum a $15 Million Loan
Release Date:
05/02/2013
Michael Bloomberg has personally lent the museum $15 million to help cover expenses until it opens a year from now. He is charging the lowest possible interest rate — less than 0.3 percent — so that the transaction would qualify under federal rules...
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Announces Participants of 'Untraditional' Artist Residency Program
Release Date:
04/17/2013
The Doris Duke Building Demand for the Arts program supports partnerships between artists and organizations to create and pilot methods for reaching the public and developing individuals' interest in and access to the performing arts.
Report About NYC’s Libraries Sparks New Proposal from Speaker Quinn
Release Date:
04/05/2013
The Center for an Urban Future’s report, which was funded by the Charles H. Revson Foundation, documented the important role that public libraries play in communities across New York City.
The Met and Crystal Bridges to Share a Trumbull Portrait
Release Date:
03/14/2013
A portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull, the celebrated Revolutionary War-era painter, has been given by its owner, Credit Suisse, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas in a 50-50...
New York Life Awards $5 Million to September 11 Memorial, Museum
Release Date:
02/21/2013
The grant will support construction of an education center that will tell the story and honor the victims of the 1993 and 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.
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