New York City's Museum of Modern Art sparked a preservation battle when it made plans to demolish the bronze-clad American Folk Art Museum to make way for MoMA's glassy expansion. Artist Sam Grinberg retraces the fight over the building's fate (spoiler alert: MoMA decided to raze the facade but keep it in storage) and the larger questions of preservation it raises in a new comic for Curbed National. [Curbed National]
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