In the Arts: Queens Museum Plans Sale of Little Pieces of New York
March 19, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
The Queens Museum of Art is capitalizing on its most famous asset to help weather the economic downturn, “selling” pieces of its 9,335-square-foot scale model of New York City — reports The New York Times.
The model was created for the 1964 World’s Fair and last updated in 1992. But starting next week, the museum’s Adopt-a-Building program will offer buyers an apartment in the miniature Big Apple for $50 and a house for $250. For $10,000 developers can add their recently built towers to the model.
In other arts news: Stung by the closure in January of a local musical theater, Boston’s small stage companies are carefully considering economic issues in plotting upcoming productions, The Boston Globe reports. “Every show we do has to be profitable,” said Sue Griffin, a board member with the Marblehead Little Theater. “It’s a little pressure-cooker situation.”
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