The American Folk Art Museum looked more plucked than plucky at the close of 2011. The museum owns the most extensive collection of American folk art anywhere, along with a large selection of folk art ...

His bold work, which often incorporates wood carving and found objects, is now held in collections at places like the American Folk Art Museum and El Museo del Barrio, both in New York ...

Curator Holger Cahill mounted the 1932 show (just eight years after the museum’s founding) “American Folk Art: The Art of the Common Man in America, 1750–1900.” Five years later ...

The first is “Anything But Simple: Gift Drawings and the Shaker Aesthetic,” a show of elaborate and intricate “gift drawings” at the American Folk Art Museum near Lincoln Square ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: Located 2.5 miles south of the Santa Fe Plaza on Museum Hill, the Museum of International Folk Art neighbors the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, the Museum of Indian Arts ...

Here are five places where you and your family can learn more about this historic art form: Welcoming visitors since 1953, this museum houses the world’s largest collection of folk art with more ...

Folk art has demanded much more respect lately, not least of all because of the American Folk Art Museum’s dedication to the genre for more than 60 years. A visit to the institution will make ...

American architect Albert Mayer initially developed ... and installed in buildings across the city," according to Britain's Victoria & Albert Museum, which showed the piece in its Tropical ...

Her craft became her storytelling. Shelley’s works are in numerous collections, including the American Folk Art Museum, High Museum of Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Smithsonian ...

The 1920s was a period of cultural revolution that came soon after the traumatic events of World War I. The mass-scale ...

WEST LAWN — The final chapter in the six sections of a new exhibit at the Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian ... Sacral Art, Art as Activism, Mythic Feminism, Designed in Chicago and Belonging. Dalia ...

During the 70s and early 80s he created record sleeves, label logos, and music-related ... his work is included in the collections of the Museum Of Modern Art and the Smithsonian Institution.