| GE-50277-10 | Public Programs: America's Historical and Cultural Organizations: Planning Grants | Yale University | Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008 | 9/1/2010 - 10/31/2011 | $40,000.00 | Robin | | Jaffee Frank | | | | Yale University | New Haven | CT | 06510-1703 | USA | 2010 | Art History and Criticism | America's Historical and Cultural Organizations: Planning Grants | Public Programs | 40000 | 0 | 40000 | 0 | Planning for a traveling exhibition, a catalog, and public programs about the history of Coney Island and its depiction in art and popular culture over the last 150 years.
The Yale University Art Gallery requests $40,000 to plan Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008. It will be the first major art exhibition to explore America's iconic playground as a place and an idea, from its beginnings as a watering hole for the wealthy, through its transformation into an entertainment mecca for the masses, to the closing of its last amusement park. |