Brett Littman, who is deputy director of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (the MoMA offshoot in Queens) and manager of the museum’s radio station (WPS1), made a minor stir when he showed up in Seattle last week. Turns out he was here to interview for the director job at the Museum of Glass: International Center for Contemporary Art in Tacoma.

Unfortunately, it didn’t work out. The museum did offer the job to Littman, who has an extensive background writing about glass and curating shows in the medium, a spokeswoman at the museum confirmed earlier today. But Littman turned it down for personal reasons. The museum’s search committee will reconvene shortly to decide what to do next.

Littman visited Platform Gallery, where he saw William Powhida’s raving drawings (an interview with the artist is here) and bought one for his personal collection, the withering letter to the artist Dana Schutz. He also invited Powhida to be interviewed on his radio show later this month.

Powhida lives in Brooklyn, so he was understandably flummoxed that a New York museum mucky-muck discovered him here. “In Seattle,” he said, standing outside his opening, sounding bemused and tense.