TANG TEACHING MUSEUM AT SKIDMORE GETS $100,000 FOR CONSERVATION

The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College is getting a $100,000 challenge grant from the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation, according to Artnews’s Hannah Ghorashi. The funds will create the museum’s first endowment for conservation, allowing it to preserve the seven-thousand-odd works in its collection. Better yet for the museum: The grant comes with a matching donation from an anonymous patron.

Ian Berry, the museum’s director, noted: “We have shown Kelly’s work at the Tang, and I curated a large exhibition of modern and contemporary drawing called ‘Twice Drawn’ in 2006 with Jack Shear”—the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation director. Berry added, “I met them both when I worked as a studio assistant for Kelly in 1996 until 1998. It was a great time for me and I am forever grateful for the generosity and lessons offered during that transformative time.”