"The National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) has announced a new round of grants-$75.1m to 84 projects, many of them celebrating the US's semiquincentennial. These are the first grants since the administration of president Donald Trump fired all but four members of the National Council on the Humanities, which advises the NEH on funding priorities, in October."
"UT Austin, which has with the Trump administration's demands on universities, will use its money to hire 16 faculty members to launch "academic majors in Strategy and Statecraft and Great Books". (The university will also receive $60,000 for an unrelated fellowship to study ancient Greek philosophy.)"
"Perhaps the most surprising of the larger grants is $2m for Grand Central Atelier (GCA), a small art school in Queens, New York. There, students learn via methods "rooted in traditions pre-dating the 19th century and the advent of photography", , which boasts that its full-time, four-year programme "has consistently produced the world's most skilled contemporary realist painters, draftsmen and sculptors. Our existence forges the newest link in an unbroken 600-year-old tradition of artists contributing works of art untouched by modernism, inspired by the direct observation of nature.""
NEH awarded $75.1m to 84 projects, many tied to the US semiquincentennial, marking the first round of grants after the administration dismissed most National Council on the Humanities members in October. Grants support university programs, museum exhibitions, fellowships, and small arts schools. UT Austin will hire 16 faculty to launch academic majors in Strategy and Statecraft and Great Books and will receive $60,000 for a Greek-philosophy fellowship. UNC-Chapel Hill and University of South Carolina received substantial awards, and the Museum of the American Revolution got $2.2m. Grand Central Atelier received $2m for traditional realist training.
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