“It’s probably one of the most important acquisitions of an archive in our history, aside from our Henry Darger collection,” Valérie Rousseau, the museum’s senior curator, told Artnet News. “My ...

November 5, 2025 Made from natural sources and transformed through a range of artisanal and industrial processes, quilts carry deep geographical and cultural histories. Artist and scholar Lauren ...

Installation view of ‘Mystery and Benevolence: Masonic and Odd Fellows Folk Art from the Kendra and Allan Daniel Collection’ at the American Folk Art Museum (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic ...

(L to R) Sam Doyle (1906 – 1985) 'Rocking Mary' (double - sided) St. Helena Island, South Carolina, United States (circa 1983) enamel house paint on corrugated roofing tin, 52 × 26 × 1 /2 in.; Gift of ...

Two versions of Elie Nadelman’s “Dancer (Danseuse)” (1920-22) on view in ‘The Folk Art Collection of Elie and Viola Nadelman’ at the New-York Historical Society (all photos by the author for ...

PORTLAND — “American Perspectives” is the anodyne title of a traveling exhibition from New York’s American Folk Art Museum, now on a stop at the Portland Museum of Art. It’s hard to imagine a name ...

Even if you are well versed in cigar-store tribal figures, compressed perspective and other aspects of American folk art, the exhibition “American Weathervanes: The Art of the Winds” at the American ...

Call it bold or banal, but I think enough time has passed since Hamilton‘s debut in 2015 that a New Yorker can make a reference to the musical without the city collectively rolling its eyes and ...

NEW YORK — Growing up in Cambridge in the 1980s, Emelie Gevalt would make semi-regular excursions with her family to Longfellow House, the stately Georgian manor at 105 Brattle St. The National ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Looking at an American folk quilt is like being engulfed in a starburst of swirling shapes and vibrant colours. "Unfolding Stories: Culture and Tradition in American Quilts," an ...

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 ...