The American Folk Art Museum gives the late self-taught Afro-Brazilian artist Madalena Santos Reinbolt her first museum solo ...

The definition of American folk art is notoriously difficult to pin down. In the twentieth century “folk art” has embraced everything from Pennsylvania German frakturs to eccentric architectural ...

The middle value of all realized prices for an artist's works sold at auction during a given period, providing a clearer representation of typical market values by minimizing the influence of extreme ...

A Grand Forks folk artist, Pieper Bloomquist, will have her work featured in a new exhibition, "Nordic Echoes: Tradition in Contemporary Art," which opens April 5 at the Scandinavia House in New York ...

An Antiques Roadshow expert admitted he couldn't figure out how a piece of folk art was assembled in a bottle.

intricate drawings on view at the American Folk Art Museum are anything but simple Completed more than a century ago, these artworks reveal the Impressionist's triumphs—and struggles The Chinese ...

The American Folk Art Museum in New York has received a new gift of works made by self-taught artists from the legendary collection of Audrey B. Heckler. The works will be exhibited at some point ...

Made from papier-mâché, its title is “Battleship Kate,” and it’s a major piece of American folk art. But it’s not the sculpture that makes it important. It’s the tattoos. The sculpture ...

American folklorist and historian Simon J ... for a community and not by a company for profit. In the same way folk artists ...

March 8, 2025 • Episode 31 features an interview and performance from Loudon Wainwright III, songs from folk artist Hal Cannon, Michigan singer-songwriter Jane O'Neill, and New Orleans jazz ...

Subscribe to our RSS feed: The quilt, that cozy bed covering and wildly various art form, is being celebrated for a year by the American Folk Art Museum in a series of exhibitions. First up during ...

Tradition in Contemporary Art exhibit at the American-Scandinavian Foundation’s Scandinavia House in Manhattan Pieper Bloomquist of Grand Forks is an award-winning folk artist whose work often ...