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Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts awards $400,000 to organizations during pandemic José Clemente Orozco-Farias, Fauna Mirrors Murals, 2017. Photo by: Nico Young. © Museum of Jurassic Technology. LOS ANGELES, CA .-The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts announced today the eighteen recipients of its first Organizational Support Grants. For 2021, this new initiative replaces the organization’s Artist Project Grants in order to address the immediate needs of Los Angeles arts organizations contending with the devastating effects of COVID-19. These grants provide unrestricted funding of up to...

There is no vaccine for arts organizations struggling to survive 11 months into a debilitating pandemic, but the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts is offering what it hopes will be an injection of relief. The foundation, which for the last five years has awarded artist project grants to local organizations, announces Thursday that it is pivoting for 2021. It will instead award $400,000 in organizational support grants to help L.A. County arts groups stay afloat during this time of unprecedented economic hardship, when most arts organizations have been shuttered for nearly a year. “These o...

Olafur Eliasson with a piece of iceberg from his London Ice Watch installation Photo: Matt Alexander/PA Wire The Getty Foundation has started to distribute research grants for the third edition of the multi-venue exhibition series Pacific Standard Time in 2024, awarding $5.38m to 45 cultural, educational, and scientific institutions throughout Southern California to start preparing shows on the theme of art and science. “We couldn't be more pleased at the inventive ways that the institutions engaged with the themes, from multiple projects that explore Indigenous knowled...

Indigenous futurism. Narrative medicine. Cyberpunk and digital dystopias. Soil contamination. Environmentally sustainable mega-cities. These and other topics will be explored in “Pacific Standard Time: Art x Science x L.A.” in 2024. The Getty Foundation announced Wednesday the 45 Southern California cultural and educational institutions that will collectively receive more than $5 million in exhibition research grants. “Pacific Standard Time: Art x Science x L.A.” will include dozens of concurrent exhibitions as well as performances, publications and other programming, all exploring t...

The Photographs of a Mythical 19th Century Jewish Immigrant The Contemporary Jewish Museum // October 17, 2020 - March 21, 2021 January 21, 2021 | in Photography We think you'll like Los Angeles-based artist Stephen Berkman’s immersive photography installation, Predicting the Past: Zohar Studios, The Lost Years, is a tribute to Shimmel Zohar, a mythical nineteenth-century Jewish immigrant photographer, founder of Zohar Studios. The exhibition includes over thirty photographs, several large installations, a cabinet of curiosities, and a large format artist book about the Zohar project. Thes...