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City of Fort Myers awards arts and culture grants to 19 arts organizations, one group and one artist
On June 15, Fort Myers City Council awarded $150,000 in arts and culture grants. Of the 47 applicants this year, grants were awarded to 19 arts organizations, one group and one individual artist. The total awarded, $150,000, was the same amount the city awarded last year.
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Collection of Stanton Storer, courtesy of Sarasota Art Museum.
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Becca Boyd, Museum Marketing and Communications Manager, Sarasota Art Museum
No Southwest Florida museum has any of David Hockney’s artworks in its permanent collection. They are very expensive. His painting “Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)” sold at Christie’s New York in 2018 for $90 million, a record for a living artist. But one of his photographic drawings is on loan to the Sarasota Art Museum as part of the “Something Borrowed, Something New” exhibition.
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