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Arts & Culture
At Bank of America, we believe that investing in the arts has a positive impact on our lives. We support a wide range of nonprofit organizations with funding and programming to help make the arts more accessible to communities around the world and to preserve works of art and heritage sites for generations to come.
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Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
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The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure
The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure, curated by writer Ekow Eshun, showcases the work of contemporary artists from the African diaspora, including Michael Armitage, Lubaina Himid, Kerry James Marshall, Toyin Ojih Odutola and Amy Sherald, and highlights the use of figures to illuminate the richness and complexity of Black life. On view at the National Portrait Gallery, London, from February 22 through May 19, 2024.footnote1
Art Conservation Project
2024 Selections
The 2024 Bank of America Art Conservation Project is funding 24 conservation projects around the world.footnote2
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The next eligible program weekend is June 1st and 2nd
For over two decades, Bank of America has offered our cardholders free general admission - during the first full weekend of every month - to cultural institutions across the United States.
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Vision & Spirit: Black Artists in the Bank of America Collection
Vision & Spirit is composed of more than 100 paintings, prints, drawings, photographs and mixed-media works by 48 artists born in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. On view at the Upcountry History Museum, Greenville, SC from February 17 through June 2, 2024. footnote3
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For the past 25 years, Bank of America has offered our cardholders free general admission – during the first full weekend of every month - to more than 225 cultural institutions in cities across the United States. See the full list of participating institutions, state by state.
The next eligible Museums on Us® weekend is June 1st and 2nd
Who is eligible?
Museums on Us is available to Bank of America, Merrill or Bank of America Private Bank (U.S. Trust) credit or debit cardholders during the first full weekend of every month. One free general admission is limited to the individual cardholder. This offer is not transferable. This offer does not guarantee admission. Not to be combined with other offers. Excludes fundraising events, special exhibitions and ticketed exhibitions.
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How to visit
Present your active Bank of America, Merrill or Bank of America Private Bank (U.S. Trust) credit or debit card with photo ID to gain one free general admission to a participating cultural institution.
Adjusted Museums on Us admission procedures, if applicable, can be found by locating and selecting a partner name on our Museums on Us map. Information posted here is updated on an ongoing basis.
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Amy Sherald (American, b. 1973), She was learning to love moments, to love moments for themselves, 2017. Oil on canvas. 1375 x 1092 mm. © Amy Sherald. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Joseph Hyde
Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917), Dancer with Bouquets, 1895–1900, Oil on canvas 71” × 60” (180.3 × 152.4 cm), Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
Benny Andrews (American, 1930–2006), Rehearsal (Music Series), 1997, Oil and collage on canvas 46” x 42” (116.8 × 106.7 cm). Bank of America Collection. © 2023 Estate of Benny Andrews / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, Courtesy Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY.
View of the Williams Forum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2021, with Fire (United States of the Americas), 2017/2020, by Teresita Fernández, Promised gift of Mitchell L. and Hilarie L. Morgan, Courtesy of the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London. Photograph by Elizabeth Leitzell.
Ed Ruscha (American, b. 1937), Standard Station, Ten-Cent Western Being Torn in Half, 1964, oil on canvas, 65” x 121 1/2” (165.1 x 308.6 cm). Private collection, Fort Worth. © 2023 Ed Ruscha. Photo © Evie Marie Bishop, courtesy of the Modern Museum of Art of Fort Worth.