The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation gave a $3 million Challenge Grant for Art Conservation to the Guggenheim Museum today. The grant, which will “be matched two-to-one,” will endow Carol Stringari, the museum’s deputy director and chief conservator since 2007, in addition to a new position: director of engagement, conservation, and collections.
Richard Armstrong, director of the Guggenheim, said “Carol Stringari and her conservation team are well known and highly regarded for their cutting-edge research, interdisciplinary perspective, and use of innovative techniques in advancing the field of conservation. We commend The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for its sustained commitment to the preservation of our cultural heritage, and we are grateful for its support of the Guggenheim’s work in this area. The endowment of these two positions will ensure our continued leadership in this vital area and enable the Guggenheim to create new programs to introduce its varied and fascinating conservation activities to the public.”
Mellon Foundation Gives National Gallery of Art $30 Million Challenge Grant
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has given the National Gallery of Art has received a thirty-million-dollar challenge grant, according to the Washington Post’s Peggy McGlone. The money will support digital programs, education, conservation, and the museum’s Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts.
The gallery must match the first fifteen million dollars with forty-five million dollars from private sources, within five years. Once that goal has been achieved, the Mellon foundation will give an additional fifteen million dollars.
National Gallery Director Earl “Rusty” Powell III called the matching grant “a great moment for the [gallery’s] seventy-fifth anniversary.”
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco Receives 140 Ink Paintings from Japan’s Edo Period
The estate of George Gund III, the late San Francisco philanthropist, has given the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco a gift of rare Japanese artworks: 140 ink paintings produced during Japan’s Edo period. The gift comes during the museum’s fiftieth anniversary season, and follows the announcement of its plan to expand its facility with a new special exhibition pavilion.
Another selection of works from the Gund collection was recently given to the Cleveland Museum of Art. That collection comprised fifty Japanese ink paintings as well as seven Korean paintings.
Nevada Museum of Art Receives $1.5 Million Endowment
