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Art Fund (formerly the National Art Collections Fund) is an independent membership-based British charity, which raises funds to aid the acquisition of artworks for the nation. It gives grants and acts as a channel for many gifts and bequests, as well as lobbying on behalf of museums and galleries and their users.
Public Art Fund is an independent, non-profit arts organization founded in 1977 by Doris C. Freedman.The organization presents contemporary art in New York City's public spaces through a series of highly visible artists' projects, new commissions, installations, and exhibitions that are emblematic of the organization's mission and innovative history.
The Federal Art Project (1935–1943) was a New Deal program to fund the visual arts in the United States. Under national director Holger Cahill, it was one of five Federal Project Number One projects sponsored by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), and the largest of the New Deal art projects. It was created not as a cultural activity ...
The Cresson Traveling Scholarship, also known as the William Emlen Cresson Memorial Traveling Scholarship, is a two-year scholarship for foreign travel and/or study awarded annually to art students at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . Awarded for excellence, the prize was funded by Emlen and Priscilla ...
Lisa Schiff. Lisa Schiff (born December 2, 1969 [1] in Miami) is an American art advisor and specialist in contemporary and modern art, based in New York. She is the founder and president of SFA Advisory (Schiff Fine Art) [2] with offices in New York, Los Angeles and London. [3] Her clients included individuals, corporations, foundations and ...
In fact, fine art has historically outperformed the S&P 500, with contemporary art achieving an annual return of 11.5% from 1995 to 2023, compared to the S&P 500's 9.6% during the same period.
Beautiful Inside My Head Forever was a two-day auction of new work at Sotheby's, London, taking place on 15 and 16 September 2008. [1] It was unusual as Damien Hirst bypassed galleries and sold directly to the public. [2] The sale raised £111 million ($198 million) for 218 items. [3]
Outset Contemporary Art Fund is an arts charity established in 2003, [1] and based in London, England. The charity was the first organisation to utilise cross-institution collective patronage to fund artistic projects in the UK. [2] It has raised over £13 million for arts institutions, exhibitions, education, residency programmes, initiatives ...