The Smithsonian American Art Museum’s collection of folk and self-taught art represents the powerful vision of America’s untrained and vernacular artists. Represented in the museum’s collection are ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- What does "home" mean? Different things to all of us, of course. A place of love, for some. One fraught with trouble, for others. An elusive concept for too many. "Home isn't always a ...

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October 23, 2024 Many gameboards on view in the exhibition Playing with Design: Gameboards, Art and Culture offer a glimpse into the social and economic changes of the late nineteenth and early ...

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 ...

ST. LOUIS — A history of folk art developement graces the walls of the Saint Louis Art Museum in a new exhibition that ponders the motivations for artists who were at times considered to work outside ...

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 ...

You’d be forgiven for not knowing the name Madalena Santos Reinbolt (1919–1976). Her current exhibition at New York’s American Folk Art Museum is the self-taught Afro-Brazilian artist’s first museum ...

Think pink—and include lots of zeroes. American folk art masterworks belonging to Peter and Barbara Goodman hit the auction block on Jan. 20 at Christie’s, where a 188-year-old oil painting is ...