BlogBack: American Folk Art Museum Explains the Rain
Susan Flamm, public relations director of the American Folk Art Museum, replies to Folk Art Museum Forecast: Partly Art-y with a Chance of Rain:
When you visited, we were well aware of the dripping water and our maintenance staff was working on the problem. As you noted, it's the condensation from the skylight, similar to what happens at other new buildings. The interior temperature is warmer than the exterior and condensation builds up. The day you visited was one of the coldest this month.
The painting of the "Girl in Red" is completely protected inside a glass and steel enclosure that is set into the wall, and we had also placed a sheet of plastic over the glass box and brought out the mops and buckets. [Not while I was there.] It's rather disconcerting for visitors (and we've had so many) to see them, but there was no danger to the artwork. We are in contact with the architects [Tod Williams and Billie Tsien] and they're working feverishly on a solution.
Hopefully, this is the first and last time this winter that this unfortunate situation will occur.
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