Nicks has produced some lovely works with folk ... to art as a painter and designer. John Mellencamp is a man of many talents, and one of those talents is painting. Mellencamp is a famous musician ...

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 ...

In an interview with 'The Sun,' Art Garfunkel revealed he recently had a tear-filled reunion with Paul Simon, describing the get-together as “very, very warm and wonderful.” ...

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 ...

Chinese people first developed folk art between 4,000 and 5,000 years ago. Famous folk art such as paper tearing, shadow play, embroidery and carving were loved by royalty and common people alike.

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

Elaine Mitchener speaks to Vanessa Ague about the influence of John Cage and Jean-Michel Basquiat on her curation for this ...

The American ... famous landmarks — is being earmarked as a venue for visual and performing artists, and events that combine the two. It’s as if Manhattan’s downtown contemporary art scene ...

In his painting, “Pat Stood on Slag,” Bob McCormick portrays his grandfather as a young lad standing in a field of slag near a mining patch in Schuylkill County’s coal fields. Patrick Henry ...

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 ...