Opening a museum in New York, a city that already boasts nearly 150 of them, is a move so bold that it rarely happens. “It’s kind of a stupid thing to do, isn’t it?” asks Jan Broman, who is nevertheless doing just that, with his brother, Per, this September, with the opening of Fotografiska New York, a photography museum on Park Avenue South, in Manhattan. (It’s the same space that the fraudster wannabe socialite Anna Sorokin, aka Anna Delvey, claimed she was developing as a cultural center.) Since the siblings founded the original Fotografiska, in their native Stockholm, in 2010, the museum has drawn over 4 million visitors; this past June, they opened an outpost in Estonia, and after New York they plan to launch in London and Shanghai.
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