The latest round of grants from the Pew Charitable Trusts will help fund a James Castle Retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and a Peter Saul show at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
This package of grants from the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative totals $1,166,231 —the largest amount awarded in the program’s 11-year history - and will support eight groups and two teams of independent curators.
Peter Saul (whose Dali Advises the President is pictured) will be represented at PAFA in October with 60 works, including a new parody of Thomas Eakins’ The Gross Clinic.
The Castle show, the Art Museum says, is "the first major scholarly consideration by a leading museum of Castle’s work." It also opens in fall.
The Mural Arts Program and ICA came away with substantial Pew money.
