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 ...

The National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship, which is the highest honor in folk and traditional arts in the United States, was awarded to 10 artists, including three ...

Some of these forgotten folk rock artists had pretty successful careers in their respective heydays. However, they rarely get brought up in modern-day conversations about the most influential folk ...

Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century” zeroes in on a far less charted corner of Black history than that of ...

Six essential new and rising artists set to make a big impact, featuring PUNCHING BAG, Fcukers, Alemeda, Florence Sinclair, ...

Out of all the one-hit wonders of folk on this list, this one is particularly underrated. The Rooftop Singers didn’t write this one; it was penned by Gus Cannon back in the 1920s. However ...

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 ...

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 ...

The month of November boasts many events for art and food lovers, including multiple art showcases and a Dia de los Muertos ...

Artists in six states will soon be able to apply for emergency relief aid after hurricanes caused billions of dollars in ...

2024 America's Cup racing boat But, I don’t really want to talk about the party. In fact, I think the charity auction that took place during the gala, and featured the extraordinary modern art ...

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 ...