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 ...

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 ...

This famous Beatle has gotten really into painting since the heyday of the Fab Four. In fact, Paul McCartney has been committed to physical artistry for more than two decades. His interest in ...

‘Traveling Through The Jungle’ by Various Artists Out of all the forgotten folk albums from the 1970s on this list, this one has ... who lived in the deep American South.

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 ...

the Museum of International Folk Art neighbors the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture and the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian. In between visits ...

When the Museum of Art + Light (MoA+L ... For better or worse, digital is the medium of our times. American lives are digital. Screens. 1’s and 0’s. Code. Backlit. Computers.

I believe we can draw parallels between the impact of the first Industrial Revolution on folk art and the upcoming ... once the heart of American entertainment, is seeing its viewership diminish ...

2 Lincoln Square, Manhattan; folkartmuseum.org. 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 ...

18 x 24 in. (45.7 x 61 cm.) Renowned Louisiana painter Clementine Hunter is counted among the most recognizable and beloved American folk artists of the 20th century. She enjoyed a remarkable career ...

Betty Mü, an artist from Munich, Germany, is set to transform the side of the American Building on Central ... one you should put on your to-do list if you're lucky enough to be there when ...

The African American Museum of Dallas features one of the largest collections of African American folk art in the U.S. The museum displays African art, Black renaissance paintings, decorative arts ...