Now a new show at the American Folk Art Museum features 25 previously unseen pictures from the Dunievitz collection.

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Never mind that some museums have faltered after opening a flashy new building, most notably the American Folk Art Museum in New York.

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Buyers included a shopping center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore and the American Folk Art Museum in New York City.

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The model on view at the American Folk Art Museum shows that the Palace would have been 136 stories tall 34 more than the Empire State Building.

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In an otherwise glossy part of Midtown, just a few doors down from the ever-popular Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), stands the tiny, humble American Folk Art Museum.

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The research at Williamsburg over the decades has yielded more than 50 million fragments of items, a 500, 000-piece trove of collected items and a network of museums under Chief Curator Ronald Hurst's direction that includes the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, the Wallace Museum and cafe, and the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum.

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Wertkin, director of the Museum of American Folk Art in New York City, who is planning a 1999 sequel to his museum's 1975 tramp art exhibit.

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Museum officials also have said the folk-art building's floors wouldn't line up with those of the MoMA building.

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Museum curators have started adding select pieces of tramp art to their folk art collections, such as a pin cushion, comb box and crucifix acquired in 1986 by the Smithsonian's National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.

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