Warhol Foundation Awards $3.8 M. in Grants for Shows of Barbara Kruger, Lorraine O’Grady, Julie Mehretu, More
Installation view of “Urban Wild: Folk and Street Art in the South,” 2019, at Alabama Contemporary in Mobile.
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The New York–based Andy Warhol Foundation has given $3.81 million to 41 arts organizations in the United States and Canada as part of its spring 2019 grant cycle. Funds will support exhibitions, publications, and other programming at the winning institutions.
Among the organizations receiving $100,000 for single exhibitions are the Art Institute of Chicago, for its “Barbara Kruger: Rethink. Remake. Replay” show; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, for its presentation “Dawoud Bey: An American Project”; and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, which is planning a retrospective of work by Julie Mehretu. The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., got $75,000 for the exhibition “Moira Dryer: Back in Business,” and $100,000 went to the New Museum in New York for its presentation of “Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America.”
The full list of grants follows below:
Spring 2019 Grant Recipients | Support for Single Exhibitions
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, “Barbara Kruger: Rethink. Remake. Replay,” $100,000