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 ...
Holger Cahill in his landmark 1932 exhibition American Folk Art: The Art of the Common Man in America, for the Museum of Modern Art, looked to the pre-industrial past for “the simple and unaffected ...
Nor is it always a location, or a place. Home can be a state of mind," says Brooke Wyatt, curator of a show at the American Folk Art Museum called “Somewhere to Roost.” The collection of 60 ...
Her contributions to the genre were immense. As a trustee of the American Folk Art Museum for 20 years and through her generous lending of works to global exhibitions, Heckler saw to it that ...
Is Liz Diller Even Convinced That Razing The Folk Art Museum Is The Right Move? The first stages of demolition have begun on the American Folk Art Museum. Here's what Liz Diller, one of the ...