The New Museum Press Office has announced three new scholarship initiatives designed to promote the study of contemporary art. The new Mellon Grant for Scholarship in Contemporary Art utilizes a $500,000 donation from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the museum’s Research Fellow, a two-year rotating position. In addition, the New Museum will relaunch its publishing partnership with MIT Press with the hope of creating publications that deal with “the making and meaning of art in the twenty-first century” . Finally, the museum also unveiled the MX Curatorial Travel Fund, which consists of over $300,000 meant to encourage research abroad. (more…)

The Cooper Union Board of Trustees has issued a statement that the university will move forward with its plan to begin charging admission, with an attempt to continually provide additional scholarship funds as needed. “The actions taken by the board today and in April are intended to provide The Cooper Union with a financial model that will sustain it into the future, while ensuring both the quality of the academic program and the institution’s ability to enroll students entirely on the basis of their aptitude and achievement and to meet their full financial need,” the school said in a statement. (more…)