Adam Caruso and Peter St John will re-cast four rooms, which will become new exhibition and interpretation galleries.
The grant will also allow the centre to give access to the wider collection and digitise the artefacts as well as refreshing the exhibition and interpretation to create an interactive learning experience.
The trio's 1972 album "Pictures at an Exhibition," an interpretation of Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky's best-known work, also reached the Top 10, and six months later ELP's fourth album in just two years, "Trilogy," reached No. 5 on the U.S. charts.
"It's bound to come under criticism because the more inclusive they are, the more you realize what's missing from standard exhibitions and interpretations of California art and culture".
Elsewhere, Mary Rose staff were busy designing the exhibition mounts and interpretation panels.
In 2013, the Harvard Art Museums will open bigger and renovated premises with "a significantly expanded program for the exhibition, study, and interpretation of the art of our time," says Deborah Martin Kao, its chief curator.
The exhibition demonstrates how interpretations run the gamut, from a bhangra festival of Indian dance in Vancouver to a klezmer concert in Wales, from a celebration at B'nai Jeshurun in Manhattan of the legalization of same-sex marriage to the musical accompaniment for the gold medal performance of Aly Raisman, the American gymnast, at the London Olympics.
The exhibition brings imaginative interpretations of the arts in Harlem to MIST - a new, but increasingly important institution in its own right - and captures just a glimpse of the creativity that continues to color this community's lasting and international fame.
Beneath the parasol are two boxes, a glass one containing the cafe, shop and education spaces, and a wooden one containing an interpretation and exhibition space which for now is still under wraps.
The exhibition takes a broad interpretation of the meaning of Western art, with pieces ranging from a landscape painting of American mountains by Albert Bierstadt to a falcon statuette from ancient Egypt that depicts the god Horus and dates to around 360 B.C.
