Flag Art Foundation

Job seekers interested in the assistant position recently advertised by the Chelsea FLAG Art Foundation–it’s probably too late.

The foundation received over 250 resumes two days after the job was advertised on the New York Foundation for the Arts website. (The ad here.)

The flood of responses indicates the depths to which job cuts at galleries and other arts related businesses have swelled the ranks of the unemployed.

The FLAG Art Foundation posted a job opening for a temporary assistant position. The job begins Oct. 1 and runs through January 2010, “with a possibility to extend.”

The FLAG, which had formerly been open mostly by appointment, will be open to the public for their upcoming show, “Floating a Boulder.” The show opens Oct. 1 and features Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Jim Hodges, organized by  Hodges.