In 2014, the venue finished a major, multi-million-dollar
renovation that added a bookshop, coatroom, seating area, and
restrooms to 6,500 square feet of unique exhibition spaces on two
levels. The museum also boasts a 1,500-square-foot, enclosed
courtyard for outdoor exhibitions.
Inside scoop: SculptureCenter was founded in 1928 as The
Clay Club in Brooklyn. Over the following years, it changed
its name, moved to a carriage house on West 8th Street in
Manhattan and relocated to another carriage house on East 69th
Street in the same borough. In 2001, the agency purchased its
present site. The building was then redesigned by Maya Lin, the
landscape artist who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in
Washington, D.C.
Address: 44-19 Purves St., Long Island City, and
www.sculpture-center.org.
SELF-TAUGHT GENIUS GALLERY
Founded in 1961, the American Folk Art Museum is devoted
to traditional folk art and creative expressions of contemporary
self-taught artists from around the world. Its primary location is
in Manhattan, but it also runs the Self-Taught Genius Gallery,
a roughly 1,800-square-foot Queens space devoted to showing
works from its permanent collection.
Inside scoop: The permanent collection includes more than 8,000
paintings, textiles, sculpture, furniture, fraternal art, pottery,
books, photographs and works on paper by self-taught artists
from the 18th through 21st centuries.
Address: 47-29 32nd Pl., Long Island City and
www.folkartmuseum.org.
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