NEW YORK, NY.- Caroline Kerrigan Lerch was named Show Director for the Metropolitan Show, it was announced by Mark Lyman, President of the Art Fair Company. The inaugural fair, which debuts January 18-22, 2012, at the Metropolitan Pavilion, at 125 Wes…
The Metropolitan Art Show: New Art and Antique Fair Replaces the American Antiques Show
NEW YORK, NY.- The Art Fair Company, which presents the Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fairs and the Art and Antique Dealers League Spring Show NYC, will launch The Metropolitan Art Show: Art & Antiques @ The Pavilion, a new art and antique fair wh…
New York City’s MoMA to Buy Museum of Folk Art Next Door
NEW YORK (AP).- New York City’s Museum of Modern Art has agreed to buy the building of the financially strapped Museum of Folk Art. The building is next door to MoMA, meaning MoMA could expand the exhibition space of its West 53rd Street facility. No…
CAFAM Announces New Leadership MOCA’s Suzanne Isken Takes The Reins
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Amid its double exhibition opening Saturday, the Craft and Folk Art Museum (CAFAM) announced Suzanne Isken, former Education Director at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), will assume the role of director at the museum February 14…
L.A.’s Craft and Folk Art Museum Director, Maryna Hrushetska, to Step Down at End of Year
LOS ANGELES, CA.- After reviving an ailing Craft and Folk Art Museum (CAFAM) and establishing a more solid foundation for the institution, Maryna Hrushetska will step down as Director effective December 30, after six years of service. Hrushetska, who p…
First New York City Museum Exhibition in All Media at American Folk Art Museum
NEW YORK, NY.- Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was one of the most complex and multifaceted self-taught artists in the United States. Over a fifty-year period, between the late 1930s until his death in 1983, Von Bruenchenhein produced expans…
An Impressive and Comprehensive Collection of Glorious Quilts Celebrate the "Year of the Quilt"
NEW YORK, NY.- The artistry of America’s quilt heritage will be highlighted in the “Year of the Quilt”— an unprecedented twelve-month-long series of exhibitions, special events, and educational programming focusing on the creative contributions of…