It’s a busy day for job news here in the Tri-State area. Hot on the heels of word about the Bruce Museum’s new deputy director, the American Folk Art Museum has announced that it’s named Anne-Imelda Radice as its new director. The museum has been without a director for more than a year. Maria Ann Conelli, the previous executive director, stepped down in July of 2011. Read More
The American Folk Art Museum, which vacated its building next to MoMA last year and moved to a smaller storefront near Lincoln Center due to financial difficulties, is “reasonably secure” after selling the building on West 53rd Street and receiving contributions of about $3.5 million. Read More
At his booth at The Metro Show, a new arts and design fair focused mainly on American folk art, James Brett, who runs the London-based Museum of Everything, looked around cautiously before removing his shirt. Across the aisle a dealer looked at him with a judgmental gaze before Mr. Brett told her, “You’re funny.” He was fully clothed by the time a female visitor arrived at his booth. Read More
The American Folk Art Museum and the Seaport Museum, two New York museums that weathered difficult economic conditions this year, may partner for a series of exhibitions at the Seaport Museum in 2012. Read More
