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Art Fund is an independent membership-based British charity that raises funds to aid the acquisition of artworks for the nation. It also sponsors the Museum of the Year award and organises national fundraising campaigns to save significant works of art from being lost from public view.
Learn about the history, purpose, budget, grants, and controversies of the NEA, an independent federal agency that supports artistic excellence in the U.S. The NEA was created in 1965 by President Johnson and has faced criticism and cuts from conservative groups.
The National Gallery is a public art museum in Trafalgar Square, London, with a collection of over 2,300 paintings from the 13th to 20th century. It was founded in 1824 by the British government, not by nationalising a royal collection, and has expanded its building and collection over time.
National Endowment for the Arts v. Finley, 524 U.S. 569 (1998), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act, as amended in 1990, (20 U.S.C. § 954(d)(1)), was facially valid, as it neither inherently interfered with First Amendment rights nor violated constitutional vagueness principles.
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency of the U.S. government, established by the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 (Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 89–209), dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities.
The Federal Art Project (1935–1943) was a New Deal program to fund the visual arts in the United States, including murals, easel paintings, sculpture, and more. It employed thousands of artists and artisans to create public art and document American design, and commissioned some of the most significant pieces of public art in the country.
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The Museum of the Year was awarded by the British charity National Heritage from 1973 to 2000. [4] In 2001, the Museum Prize Trust was established with the aim of creating a single award to replace this prize and three others awarded by the Museums Association, the Art Fund and the Campaign for Museums. [5]