Board Decides to Keep American Folk Art Museum Going, Names New President

When we last left news of the American Folk Art Museum, things weren’t looking good in the slightest. Despite having sold their large, still relatively new Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects-designed building to the adjacent MoMA and moving into a much smaller space in New York’s Lincoln Square neighborhood, thereby supposedly saving them from the millions in debt they’d been held down by for years, things were still apparently rough going. At that time, with the NY Times reporting that their “financial picture [had] grown so bleak,” it was widely assumed (even by members of the museum it seemed) that their days were numbered and its