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The article reviews the exhibition "Foiled: Tinsel Painting in America'" at the American Folk Art Museum in Lincoln Square in New York City until January 13, 2013.

Having survived a near-death experience last fall, the American Folk Art Museum will present an exhibition starting June 20 at the South Street Seaport Museum with the Museum of the City of New York, which now operates the Seaport Museum. The exhibition, ''Compass: Folk Art in Four Directions,'' announced on Tuesday, will draw on the Folk Art Museum's collection to describe the Seaport as a bustling international port in the early 1800s. The show will occupy four galleries and run through Oct. 7. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Please. Someone, everyone, do something to save the American Folk Art Museum from dissolution and dispersal. Or at least slow down the process, so that all options can be thoroughly considered. New York's contemporary artists, and New York as a whole, need the creative energy of this stubborn, single-minded little institution, its outstanding exhibition program and its wondrous collection, an unparalleled mixture of classic American folk art and 20th-century outsider geniuses. At the moment it almost seems that the museum's trustees can't wait to end their flawed stewardship of this great but historically fragile institution. Last spring, having defaulted on a $31.2 million construction bond, they sold the museum's 10-year-old building to its neighbor, the Museum of Modern Art, and retreated to its small, rather grim Lincoln Square branch. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WHEN I walked into the Lululemon store in Lincoln Square, the first thing that struck me was how the superlative ''super'' has become so common in our vernacular. I had barely touched a soft Game Over hoodie displayed on a table when a salesclerk materialized next to me: ''Have you tried on one? They are super-cozy. They have a little Lycra in them so they aren't going to bag out like a normal sweatshirt.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]