Hall Art Foundation
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The Hall Art Foundation is an organization, founded in 2007 by Andrew Hall and Christine Hall, which oversees two contemporary art museums, one in Vermont and one in Germany, named Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg.{{cite magazine |last1=Wallis |first1=Stephen |title=Step Inside the Hall Art Foundation's New Home |url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/step-inside-the-hall-art-foundations-new-home |accessdate=8 March 2019 |magazine=Architectural Digest |date=17 October 2017}} There is also a permanent installation of Anselm Kiefer's work at MASS MoCA supported by the Hall Art Foundation.{{cite news |last1=Michel |first1=Karen |title=Kiefer's Bleak Horrors Of War Fill An Entire Building |url=https://www.npr.org/2013/11/23/246854236/the-bleak-horrors-of-war-on-display-in-massachusetts |accessdate=8 March 2019 |publisher=NPR |date=13 November 2013}} The museums in Vermont and Germany serve to exhibit some portion of Hall's 5,000-piece art collection. The Foundation and its efforts have been compared to Glenstone, another private museum.{{cite magazine |last1=Belcove |first1=Julie |title=The Secluded World of Private Museums |url=https://robbreport.com/shelter/art-collectibles/secluded-world-of-private-museums-2829055/ |accessdate=8 March 2019 |magazine=Robb Report |date=18 November 2018}}{{cite news |last1=Cohen |first1=Patricia |title=Writing Off the Warhol Next Door |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/business/art-collectors-gain-tax-benefits-from-private-museums.html |accessdate=8 March 2019 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=10 January 2015}}
Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg
Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg, situated near Hannover, has a history that stretches back almost one thousand years.{{Cite web|title=Schloss|url=https://www.derneburg.de/schloss-1|access-date=2022-01-07|website=www.derneburg.de}} For centuries it was a convent and later a monastery. In the 19th Century it became the residence of the Dukes of Münster who commissioned the renowned Hanoverian architect Georg Ludwig Laves to convert it to a stately home. Artist Georg Baselitz acquired the property in the 1970s and it became his residence and studio for approximately thirty years until its sale in 2006. Since then, the Schloss has been reunited with the adjacent domain and both have undergone extensive renovations to become one of the largest privately owned public museums for contemporary art in Europe.{{Cite web|last=Prante|first=Martina|title=Derneburg: Wie aus dem Pferdestall eine Kunsthalle wird|url=https://www.hildesheimer-allgemeine.de/meldung/derneburg-wie-aus-dem-pferdestall-eine-kunsthalle-wird.html|access-date=2022-01-07|website=www.hildesheimer-allgemeine.de|language=de}}
Reading, Vermont
Hall Art Foundation in Reading, Vermont is situated on a former dairy farm. The campus of converted galleries consists of a 19th-century stone farmhouse, three barns, as well as a reception center and cafe. Making up approximately 6,000 sq. feet of museum-quality exhibition space, the farmhouse and barns sit next to a waterfall on a tributary of the Black River, and are surrounded by approximately 400 acres of pastures, hayfields and extensive woodland. Outdoor sculptures by world-renown artists are installed throughout the grounds. Exhibitions are held seasonally, from May through November.{{Cite web|title=Vermont - Locations - Hall Art Foundation|url=http://www.hallartfoundation.org/location/vermont|access-date=2022-01-07|website=www.hallartfoundation.org}} In 2013, it was named by Architectural Digest as one of the "Must-See Museums Opened by Collectors Around the World".{{Cite web|date=2013-12-31|title=Must-See Museums Opened by Collectors Around the World|url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/museums-opened-by-collectors-slideshow|access-date=2022-01-10|website=Architectural Digest|language=en-US}}
MASS MoCA
The Hall Art Foundation also has an exhibition partnership with the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, in North Adams, Massachusetts, the largest contemporary art museum in North America.{{Cite web|title=MASS MoCA - Locations - Hall Art Foundation|url=http://www.hallartfoundation.org/location/mass-moca|access-date=2022-01-07|website=www.hallartfoundation.org}} In September 2013, the Foundation opened a long-term installation of sculpture and paintings by Anselm Kiefer in a specifically repurposed, 10,000 square-foot building on the MASS MoCA campus.{{Cite web|date=2015-10-15|title=Anselm Kiefer {{!}} MASS MoCA|url=https://massmoca.org/event/anselm-kiefer/|access-date=2022-01-07|website=massmoca.org|language=en-US}} In 2014, the Foundation landscaped the area surrounding this building in order to present long-term installations of outdoor sculpture.
Collection
Together, the Hall and Hall Art Foundation collections comprise over 5,000 works by several hundred artists including Georg Baselitz, Joseph Beuys, Nicole Eisenman, Olafur Eliasson, Eric Fischl, Anselm Kiefer, Barbara Kruger, Ed Ruscha, Julian Schnabel, Andy Warhol and Franz West.{{Cite web|title=Collection - Hall Art Foundation|url=http://www.hallartfoundation.org/collection|access-date=2022-01-07|website=www.hallartfoundation.org}}
In addition to displaying its collection at its own two museum sites, the Hall Art Foundation collaborates with other public institutions around the world to organize exhibitions and facilitate loans from its own collection and that of the Halls.
As part of its educational activities, the Hall Art Foundation has published, co-published and/or provided substantial financial support for the publication of about two dozen books relating to the exhibitions it has organized and co-organized.{{Cite web|title=Publications - Hall Art Foundation|url=http://www.hallartfoundation.org/publications|access-date=2022-01-07|website=www.hallartfoundation.org}}
Dreyfoos School of the Arts
The Hall Art Foundation is committed to supporting the Black community in America. In 2020, it partnered with the Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts in West Palm Beach, Florida, a tuition-free magnet public high school for Palm Beach County's most talented and disciplined students in the arts. The Hall Art Foundation has established an endowment of over $1.5 million to provide scholarships to deserving students of color graduating from Dreyfoos who wish to pursue a degree in the Visual or Performing Arts at an accredited college, university or conservatory or who wish to attend an accredited summer arts program. Separately, the Hall Art Foundation also supports Dreyfoos’ Adjunct Artist Program, providing funding that allows the school to engage artists of color as guest artists, artists in residence and artist consultants for its students.{{Cite web|last=Sjostrom|first=Jan|title=Collectors Andy and Christine Hall organize auction for Black students' scholarships|url=https://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/story/entertainment/2020/11/09/andy-and-christine-hall-lead-auction-for-black-student-scholarships/3741015001/|access-date=2022-01-07|website=Palm Beach Daily News|language=en-US}}
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Category:Art museums and galleries in Vermont
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