LATEST NEH GRANTEES INCLUDE LACMA, HARVARD, AND KEN BURNS
The National Endowment for the Humanities has announced its latest round of grants, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Mike Boehm.
A number of museums and universities have landed grants for art exhibitions: The Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s receiving $40,000 for a touring exhibition on the art of Sri Lanka. The Walters Art Gallery will be given $300,000 for a show on European late-Gothic art, while the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts will receive the same amount for a traveling exhibit on World War I and American Art. Harvard College, too, is getting $300,000, for a multivenue exhibit on illuminated manuscripts. Meanwhile, the NEH will be contributing $150,000 to the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s efforts to complete an in-depth catalogue of early American furniture.
The largest grant for any one single project, however, isn’t headed to a museum: The NEH has set aside $1 million for a ten-part documentary on the Vietnam War directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick.
$22.8 million in grants were announced in total. The full list of recent grant winners can be found here.
