The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation.The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation announces the winners of the Tremaine Exhibition Award for 2000. Totaling $350,000, the award was given to the following four institutions: P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center The P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center is one of the largest and oldest institutions in the United States dedicated solely to contemporary art. It is located in the neighborhood of Long Island City, Queens in New York City. in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. ($50,000); the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston ($100,000); the Baltimore Museum of Art The Baltimore Museum of Art in Baltimore, Maryland, was founded in 1914. It is located between the Charles Village and Remington neighborhoods, immediately adjacent to the Homewood campus of Johns Hopkins University, though the museum is an independent institution not affiliated ($100,000) and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts The Virginia Museum of Fine arts, or ‘’’VMFA’’’ is an art museum in Richmond, Virginia. It is one of the first museums in the American South to be operated by state funds. in Richmond ($100,000). Established in 1998, this biennial biennial, plant requiring two years to complete its life cycle, as distinguished from an annual or a perennial. In the first year a biennial usually produces a rosette of leaves (e.g., the cabbage) and a fleshy root, which acts as a food reserve over the winter. exhibition award honors Tremaine, a life-long collector of contemporary art, who formed the foundation prior to her 1987 death. The award strives for innovative and experimental contemporary art themes at the curator level--themes that will challenge and expand the audiences and art world alike. "The Foundation seeks curators who dream of exploring compelling ideas, provocative themes, and unusual theses in contemporary art exhibitions that might otherwise be difficult to find," said Dini Merz, Program Director of the Tremaine Foundation. P.S. 1's The May West Show; The Institute of Contempor ary Art's Art and Healing: Ritual and Transformation; The Baltimore Museum's Exchange Rate; and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Outer and Inner Space: A Video Exhibition in Three Parts will be mounted between 2001 and 2003. Guidelines for the 2002 Tremaine Exhibition Award will be available in late 2001. |
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