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Art Fund sponsors the Museum of the Year award (known as the Gulbenkian Prize from 2003 to 2007 and the Art Fund Prize from 2008 to 2012). This is a £100,000 prize awarded annually to the museum or gallery that had the most imaginative, innovative or popular project during the previous year.
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 Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) / 40.7602; -111.8432. The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) is a state and university art museum located in downtown Salt Lake City on the University of Utah campus. Housed in the Marcia and John Price Museum Building near Rice-Eccles Stadium, the museum holds a permanent collection of nearly 20,000 art objects.
Designated NHL. May 15, 1975. Designated PHMC. November 17, 2004 [3] The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts ( PAFA) is a museum and private art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [4] It was founded in 1805 and is the first and oldest art museum and art school in the United States.
The original Museum of Fine Arts building in Copley Square. The Museum of Fine Arts was founded in 1870 and was initially located on the top floor of the Boston Athenæum. Most of its initial collection came from the Athenæum's Art Gallery. [3] In 1876, the museum moved to a highly ornamented brick Gothic Revival building designed by John ...
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 ...
The Section of Painting and Sculpture was renamed as the Section of Fine Arts in 1939 and operated until 1942. The Section’s primary objective was to "secure suitable art of the best quality available for the embellishment of public buildings." Artworks created under the Section of Fine Arts were site-specific murals and sculptures for newly ...