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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 ...
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 ...
The Frac Lorraine was founded in 1984 as a nomad contemporary art fund. Since 2004, it seats in the Saint-Livier Hôtel, an hôtel particulier of the 12th century in the historical centre of Metz . Since then, the Frac Lorraine has been nicknamed 49 Nord 6 Est (English: 49 North 6 East ), because of the geodesic of the Hôtel.
PAFA's 1845 building from a photograph, c. 1870. The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts was founded in 1805 by painter and scientist Charles Willson Peale, sculptor William Rush, and other artists and business leaders. [5] Its first building on Chestnut and 10th Streets in Center City Philadelphia was designed by John Dorsey and opened in ...