GRANTS

ARTS & CULTURE

The Foundation played a role in the creation of the Rubin Museum of Art and continues to be supportive of that institution and more broadly of the exhibition and study of the arts of the Himalayan region. 

Our major continuing cultural commitments include three other remarkably valuable organizations: the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center, which is preserving and making digitally available endangered written works, some of them both ancient and unique, from the Himalayan region; WNET 13 for their annual Arts Month programming and for their excellent documentary series, Wide Angle; and Arts of the Islamic World, which is developing a virtual museum of art works and objects reflecting the rich diversity and history of the countries and regions in which Islam has been a formative presence.

Additionally, the Foundation has worked closely with Big Apple Circus on the creation of an archive of classic, historic circus acts, Circopedia. The archive's primary goal is to help the public better understand and appreciate the circus as a global artistic and cultural phenomenon, embracing both the populist nature of the circus and the democratic technology of an interactive web archive.

Most of our other arts and culture grants, whether in New York City or in the Himalayan region, are much smaller, ordinarily no more than $10,000.