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National Endowment For The Humanities – Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections

Posted by admin in Art and Museums, Culture on November 6, 2011

The National Endowment for the Humanities, or the NHE, is an independent federal agency of the United States of America which work towards supporting the humanities through research, education, preservation and public programs.

In keeping with the NHE’s effort to save the humanities, they’ve already developed the Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections (SCHC) program, which aims to assist in tackling the complex challenge of preserving vast and diverse holdings of humanities materials.

The SCHC program offers two kinds of grants, the grants for planning and also the grants for implementation.

The planning grants are meant to help institutions develop and assess preventive and conservation strategies, which include site visits, risk assessments, planning sessions, monitoring, testing, modeling, project-specific research, and preliminary designs in the future implementation of approved projects.

The NHE will grant eligible parties as much as $40,000 to initially support planning projects, and the other $10,000, upon request and pending the recommendation of interdisciplinary planning teams, as a way to improve the outcomes of planning grants as well as encourage incremental improvements in collection care.

An Implementation grant, alternatively, is aimed at the implementation of preventive conservation project, having a maximum grant budget of $350,000 per grant awardee. Implementation grants consist of implementation projects that are location-sensitive and therefore are based on institution-oriented plans. Read the rest of this entry »

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Best Contemporary Art Museums in the World

Posted by admin in Art, Art and Museums, Article, Culture, Gallery on July 18, 2011

The best way to assimilate the culture and art of any particular era or a particular art movement is by going to an art museum. There are many different art movements from Neo Classicism, Post-modernism, Abstract Expressionism to Impressionism. For a lay man who is not well versed in the intricacy of art styles and art movement, all these terms can seem a little incomprehensive. The best way to understand art from a particular period is to go to an art museum and browse through their extensive collection. There are many art museums that are devoted to exhibiting art from a particular style. One such modern art style that is very much popular is contemporary art.

Contemporary art can be defined as an art from the period ranging from just after the World War II to the present period. However, this definition of contemporary art is too narrow and limiting. Art movements including abstract expressionism, minimalism, pop art, feminist art and post modernism all fall under the category of contemporary art. There are many contemporary art museums in the world that showcase some of the best works in contemporary art. Here, we will focus on some of the best contemporary art museums in the world. Read the rest of this entry »

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