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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts is launching a new grant program to support U.S.-based visual arts nonprofits with budgets under $200,000, offering awards between $20,000 and $30,000. The program will begin accepting applications for its Spring 2026 grant cycle, with a deadline of March 1. This marks a significant expansion of the foundation's previous focus, which had been on organizations with budgets of $300,000 or more.

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Chinese artist Yun-Fei Ji presents a new body of work in the exhibition “Riding the Tiger” at James Cohan Gallery in New York. The paintings draw on archetypes from Chinese folklore and the 16th-century novel *Journey to the West*, blending fantastical imagery with recognizable human scenes to explore the psychological and spiritual dimensions of migration. Works such as *The Sweep Up of Animal Spirits* and *The Round Up #1* directly reference the persecution of immigrants by government agencies, using symbols like tigers, buddhas, and livestock to critique power structures.

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The Trump administration has escalated its attacks on billionaire philanthropist George Soros, with the Justice Department calling for an investigation into his Open Society Foundations. The foundations, which provide substantial grants to artists and human rights organizations globally, are accused of potential racketeering, wire fraud, and material support for terrorism, based on allegations from the conservative Capital Research Center. Soros, a major Democratic donor, has previously been targeted by Trump and Vice President JD Vance, who claim the foundations fund leftist protests. The Open Society Foundations have awarded $100,000 fellowships to numerous prominent artists, including Firelei Báez, Yto Barrada, and Nicholas Galanin, and provided $1.2 billion in funding in 2024 alone.

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The Hepworth Wakefield and Art Fund have successfully raised £3.8 million to acquire Barbara Hepworth’s sculpture *Sculpture with Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue and Red* (1943). The wood and string artwork, previously in private hands and rarely seen publicly, was sold at Christie’s in London last March for £3.5 million. A temporary export bar imposed by the UK government gave the museum time to raise funds, with the deadline set for August 27. The funding came from over 2,800 donations and major grants, including £1.89 million from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and £750,000 from the Art Fund, along with private support.

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At the 2025 Glastonbury Festival in the UK, Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Wallinger presented an anti-fascist installation titled "Jungle Gym" at the Terminal 1 Stage, curated by Oriana Garzón as part of the exhibition "No Human is Illegal." The work, built with chainlink fencing and using only Unicef blue, highlights the suffering of children in Gaza and the bureaucratic challenges faced by migrants. Festivalgoers entered by answering a British citizenship test question, with incorrect answers sending them to the back of the line, before passing through a cabin styled as a refugee camp to reach the installation.

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Mark Bauerlein, a conservative professor and contributing editor to First Things, published an op-ed in the New York Times arguing against cuts to government arts funding while simultaneously attacking progressive scholars and NEH grants he deems wasteful. He suggests that instead of slashing the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Trump administration should repurpose it to promote conservative cultural values, citing examples like funding for a curriculum on race and comics or a database of a historic gay travel guide as wasteful.

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Calls for Artists: May 2026

Burnaway's May 2026 Calls for Artists roundup lists multiple opportunities with deadlines in early May. These include the Joan Mitchell Center's call for figurative works, the Michael P. Smith Fund for Documentary Photography for Gulf Coast photographers, the Center for Craft Teaching Artist Cohort offering $10,000 grants to mid-career craft artists, the Hopper Prize grants totaling $13,000, residencies at The Studios of Key West and Trillium Arts, and the National Performance Network Creation & Development Fund. Each opportunity has specific eligibility, fees, and deadlines ranging from May 3 to May 18, 2026.

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Dialing Up the Dollars: Giorno Poetry Systems Names Inaugural Recipients of New Need-Based Grant

Giorno Poetry Systems (GPS), the New York-based nonprofit founded in 1965 by artist John Giorno, has announced the twelve inaugural recipients of its new need-based grant, the Treat a Stranger grants. Each recipient receives an unrestricted grant of $4,545 to cover daily expenses like food, housing, health care, and emergencies. The grants are a relaunch of GPS's AIDS Treatment Project grants from 1984–1994, and are named after Giorno's mantra, “Treat a complete stranger with the same compassion you would treat a lover or a good friend.” Winners are selected by a rotating anonymous jury of LGBTQIA+ artists, poets, and musicians through a multi-meeting nomination and voting process.

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Arthur Jafa and Julie Mehretu Among Art Basel Awards 2026 Medalists

Art Basel has announced the thirty-three winners of its 2026 Art Basel Awards, recognizing individuals and institutions across nine categories. The winners include prominent artists like Arthur Jafa, Julie Mehretu, and Barbara Kruger, as well as institutions such as The Brick in Los Angeles and the Diriyah Biennale Foundation. A new jury member, Prof. Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, was also added for this edition.

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Shepard Fairey Projection Mirror: ICE Paid Agitator Screenprint Contemporary Art Obey Giant , 2026

Street artist Shepard Fairey has released a new limited-edition screenprint titled "Projection Mirror: ICE Paid Agitator" as part of his "FUCK ICE" series. The artwork features inflammatory rhetoric previously used by the Trump administration, redirected toward U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to highlight what the artist describes as the agency's pervasive brutality and dehumanizing attacks on immigrants. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of these prints will benefit the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA).

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Dirk Staschke's exhibition

Duane Reed Gallery in St. Louis is hosting a new exhibition of trompe l’oeil stoneware sculptures and tiles by artist Dirk Staschke. Staschke, a sculptor and ceramicist, draws inspiration from Dutch Vanitas still-life painting, blending traditional techniques with contemporary textures and forced perspective. His works merge painting and sculpture, featuring adapted still lives on ceramic vessels and three-dimensional framed tableaus. Staschke holds an MFA from Alfred University and a BFA from the University of Montevallo, and his work has been exhibited at the Smithsonian Museum, Icheon Museum, Crocker Museum, and Portland Art Museum.

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More US artists forced to pay for their own shows as museum and culture budgets shrink

The article reports that U.S. artists like Lucia Hierro are increasingly forced to pay for their own museum exhibitions and public commissions as institutional budgets shrink. Hierro’s ambitious installation centered on a 7.5-foot monobloc chair required $35,000–$40,000 for fabrication alone, far exceeding what the commissioning institution could provide. The project moved forward only after support from her gallerist and a new fund from Miami-based nonprofit Fountainhead Arts, which received 96 applications requesting $1.8 million—14 times its available $125,000 in grants. The article highlights that even artists selected for the Venice Biennale face such funding gaps.

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article news schedule Aug 29, 2025 visibility 13 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

September 2025 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

This article compiles a list of open calls, residencies, and grants for artists and designers with deadlines in September and October 2025. Opportunities include the Innovate Grant offering $1,800 each to one visual artist and one photographer, the PHOTOcentric 2025 exhibition at Garrison Art Center, a call for mini-golf hole designs for The Other Art Fair Chicago, and the Ingram Prize 2025 for recent U.K. art school graduates. Other listings include the Moons, Castles, Trees exhibition for The Wrong Biennale ’26 in Copenhagen, the Denver International Airport Rotating Sculpture Program, the MONSTER Exhibition in Berlin, the Abbey Harris Mural Fund in the U.K., and the Contemporary Reflection Art Exhibition in London.

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article policy schedule May 13, 2026 visibility 12 link 13 artists

(BPRW) Getty Awards $1.8M to Increase Access to Black Visual Arts Archives

The Getty Foundation has awarded $1.8 million in grants to eight institutions through its Black Visual Arts Archives initiative, a multi-year program aimed at increasing access to archival collections related to Black artists and arts organizations. The grants will support processing, digitization, and public programming at venues including Afro Charities, Auburn Avenue Research Library, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Charles H. Wright Museum, Morgan State University, South Side Community Art Center, the University of Chicago's South Side Home Movie Project, and the David C. Driskell Center. This brings Getty's total funding for the initiative to $4.5 million since 2022, supporting 20 grants nationwide.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 12, 2026 visibility 9 link 3 artists

Art as Collective Responsibility: Hestia Artistic Journey Grant Programme Winners

The Hestia Artistic Journey National Grant Programme (Artystyczna Podróż Hestii) has announced the winners of its third edition, selecting eight projects from nearly 200 applications across Poland. The programme, subtitled "Opening Time" (Czas otwarcia), supports artists and cultural institutions planning exhibitions that address collective responsibility for global issues. Winners include "Ślady pamięci" by Fundacja Szałfynster in Katowice, exploring memory and dementia; "Głodne drzewa/Thirsty Trees" by Przemek Branas at the Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź, critiquing human greed through eucalyptus metaphors; and "Tymczasowa pława" by Norbert Delman at the State Art Gallery in Sopot, an installation on ecocide using a sunken fishing boat and amber. Each project will present an exhibition between July 2026 and the last quarter of 2027, with increased funding due to exceptional submissions.

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City of the Arts? Costa Mesa called out for not having official arts budget

Costa Mesa’s Arts Commission delivered a report to the City Council on Tuesday, calling for a significant increase in arts funding as the city updates its arts and culture master plan. Currently, arts programs are primarily funded by a portion of cannabis tax revenue—about $230,000 annually—but actual expenditures are nearly double that, forcing the city to use general fund revenue to cover the gap. Commissioners recommended establishing a public art fund, increasing the cannabis tax allocation, imposing a 1% public art fee on capital projects over $500,000, and potentially using hotel-stay tax revenue to support the arts. They also proposed expanding the arts grants program, funding a consultant to update the master plan, and creating a dedicated arts specialist position.

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MoMA Curatorial Eye Comes to Greenwich Art Society

Caitlin Chaisson, a curatorial assistant in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, will serve as juror for the Greenwich Art Society’s 109th Annual Juried Exhibition. The show runs from May 14 through June 11 at the Bendheim Gallery in the Greenwich Arts Council’s space at 299 Greenwich Avenue, featuring selected works by local artists competing for a place in one of the town’s established juried art events.

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How Delilah Montoya’s art confronts ICE detention abuses

The Albuquerque Museum is hosting a retrospective of Chicana artist Delilah Montoya, titled "Delilah Montoya: Activating Chicana Resistance." The exhibition's centerpiece is "Detention Nation," an immersive installation created in collaboration with the Sin Huellas Artist Collective that simulates the conditions of ICE detention centers. The work features cyanotype images of detainees on prison cots, chain-link fencing, and displays of meager government-issued personal items alongside the official National Detainee Handbook.

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Arshile Gorky & Isamu Noguchi: A Lecture by Amy Lyford

Art historian Amy Lyford delivered a lecture exploring the artistic and personal relationship between Arshile Gorky and Isamu Noguchi. The talk, presented by the gallery Hauser & Wirth, examined their shared experiences as immigrants, their navigation of American modernism, and the cross-pollination of ideas between their practices.

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museum exhibitions schedule Mar 6, 2026 visibility 16 link 2 artists

Maryland artist examines Matisse's legacy in upcoming Museum of Art exhibit

The Baltimore Museum of Art is set to host "Fratino and Matisse: To See This Light Again," a major exhibition pairing the works of Maryland-born artist Louis Fratino with those of Henri Matisse. The show features approximately 30 works by the French master alongside Fratino’s contemporary pieces, marking the MICA graduate's first significant institutional exhibition in the United States.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 23, 2026 visibility 16 link 5 artists

Artists Welcome: CMA announces new juried ‘Lake Effect’ exhibition at Transformer Station

The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) has announced an open call for submissions to "Lake Effect: Artists from Cleveland Now," a juried group exhibition celebrating the museum's 110th anniversary. The show will run from July 9 to November 22, 2026, at Transformer Station, the museum's Ohio City outpost in Hingetown. Open to artists living or working in Northeast Ohio, the exhibition welcomes all media and will be selected by a curatorial jury of CMA professionals. Three participating artists will receive $1,000 micro-grants.

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LACMA Expands Local Access Initiative with New Museum Partners and Exhibitions

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has expanded its Local Access program, adding three new museum partners: the California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) University Art Gallery, the Millard Sheets Art Center at the LA County Fair, and the Ontario Museum of History & Art. Supported by the Art Bridges Cohort Program, the initiative brings exhibitions sourced from LACMA's permanent collection to communities across Southern California. The program's latest exhibition, 'Act on It! Artists, Community, and the Brockman Gallery in Los Angeles,' opens at the Vincent Price Art Museum on September 27, exploring the legacy of the historic Brockman Gallery and its role in the Black Arts Movement.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 8, 2025 visibility 16 link 12 artists

With works by Munch and Mamma Andersson, the British Museum reveals the darkness of Nordic noir

The British Museum in London will open a free exhibition titled "Nordic Noir" on October 9, featuring over 150 works by 100 artists. The show begins with Edvard Munch, including his woodcut "Gammel fisker (Old fisherman, 1897)", and moves chronologically to explore how Nordic artists responded to political transformations since 1944. Curated by Jennifer Ramkalawon, the exhibition highlights works by contemporary artists such as Yuichiro Sato, Anna Zimmerman, Maria Nordin, Per Kirkeby, and the Norwegian radical collective GRAS, many of which have never been seen outside the Nordic region.

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How Two New Art Exhibitions Are Spotlighting Black Queer History

Two new art exhibitions are spotlighting Black queer history amid escalating government censorship and threats to federal arts funding. "In the Life: Black Queerness—Looking Back, Moving Forward" at the Carr Center in Detroit traces 80 years of Black queer culture, opening with LeRoy Foster's 1945 self-portrait and featuring works by Zanele Muholi, April Bey, and Pamela Sneed. Co-curated by Patrick Burton and Wayne Northcross, the show is produced by Mighty Real/Queer Detroit and will be part of the Detroit Queer Biennial in June 2026. A second exhibition, "The Gay Harlem Renaissance," runs from October 10 through March at the New York Historical Museum in Manhattan, curated by Allison Robinson, highlighting queer contributions to the Harlem Renaissance through artifacts like rent party tickets and works by Malvin Gray Johnson.

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Teiger Foundation gives grants totalling $7m to 85 curators

The Teiger Foundation, a US-based nonprofit supporting art curators, has announced its 2025 grantees, awarding a total of $7 million to 85 curators at institutions across the country. This nearly doubles last year’s grants as the foundation transitions to a biennial model, with individual grants ranging from $50,000 to $150,000 for exhibitions, research, touring shows, and three years of programming. Notable projects include a major survey of the late artist L.V. Hull organized by curators Ryan N. Dennis, Annalise Flynn, and Yaphet Smith, and a Theresa Hak Kyung Cha retrospective curated by Victoria Sung and Tausif Noor.

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Comment | US museums are finally going bilingual: here's why it matters

US museums are increasingly adopting bilingual and multilingual programming, primarily adding Spanish translations to wall texts, websites, and catalogs. Institutions like the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA) and MoMA PS1 in New York have led this shift, with MCA hiring bilingual staff and developing a bilingual website, while MoMA PS1 offers texts in Spanish, simplified Chinese, Arabic, Tagalog, and Bisaya for specific exhibitions. This trend responds to the fact that 14% of the US population speaks Spanish at home, and Latinx people represent a growing demographic in cities like Chicago.

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article policy schedule Jul 31, 2025 visibility 17 link 3 artists

Yale University Art Gallery withdraws federal funding applications over anti-diversity regulations

The Yale University Art Gallery has withdrawn two federal grant applications submitted to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for an upcoming exhibition on African art exploring the migration of Nguni peoples, scheduled for 2026. The gallery objected to new anti-DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) restrictions imposed by the Trump administration, which require that funded projects do not promote certain ideologies based on race or gender. The gallery will instead use Yale University's $46 billion endowment to cover the $200,000 exhibition costs. This follows a previous instance where the gallery opted out of NEA funding, and a separate $30,000 NEA grant for the exhibition "Nusantara: Six Centuries of Indonesian Textile" was rescinded, though that show will proceed with support from the Robert Lehman Endowment Fund.

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August 2025 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

The article compiles a list of open calls, residencies, and grants for artists with deadlines in August through October 2025. Opportunities include the Wave Hill Sunroom Project Space in New York City, Sculpture by the Sea in Cottesloe, Australia, the Hunt Museum Open Submission Exhibition in Ireland, New Voices 2026 at Print Center New York, and the Moons, Castles, Trees exhibition for The Wrong Biennale in Copenhagen. Grant opportunities include the Ellis-Beauregard Project Grants in Maine, the Seattle Art Museum Betty Bowen Award for Northwest artists, and the Hornsby Art Prize in Australia, among others.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 1, 2025 visibility 15 link 14 artists

National Gallery of Art lends historic works to the Figge Art Museum

The Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa, has opened an exhibition titled "The Golden Age: Featuring Northern European Artworks from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art," featuring 10 masterworks from 1537 to 1700 on loan from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The show includes paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder, Anthony van Dyck, Frans Hals, and Louis Vallée, and runs through April 4, 2027. The Figge is one of ten small to mid-size museums selected for the National Gallery's "Across the Nation" initiative, which sends key works to institutions nationwide to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the United States.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 30, 2025 visibility 12 link 6 artists

Home of murdered Pakistani artist Ismail Gulgee becomes a museum

The home and studio of murdered Pakistani Modernist artist Ismail Gulgee has been transformed into a museum by his son, installation artist Amin Gulgee. Opened in February 2025 in central Karachi, the museum preserves the late artist's work, including his Expressionist calligraphic paintings and later abstract canvases, which had been locked away since Gulgee, his wife, and a maid were killed in 2007 by their driver and an accomplice. The building, designed by architect Nayyar Ali Dada, now houses a carefully curated collection that traces Gulgee's evolution from formal calligraphy to vibrant abstraction.

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