Art
An Important Archive of New York Quilt History Is Being Digitized
The American Folk Art Museum is digitizing the New York Quilt Project, an archive of over 6,000 quilts and their histories.
American Folk Art Museum
Art
The Wartime Quilts Made by Men from Military Uniforms
The American Folk Art Museum in New York is exhibiting wartime quilts made by British soldiers from their uniforms in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Announcement
American Folk Art Museum Opens "Self-Taught Genius Gallery" in Long Island City
The new dedicated space will highlight selections from the museum's permanent collection.
Art
In Carlo Zinelli and Eugen Gabritschevsky’s Art, the Life Spirit Endures
Diving into the American Folk Art Museum’s two new exhibitions, it’s quite likely that your head will spin — for all the right reasons — in the presence of some very potent expressions from two unsinkable human spirits.
Art
Best of 2016: Our Top 20 NYC Art Shows
This list barely scratches the surface of the city's artistic offerings this year, from overdue retrospectives to surprising sides of artists we know well.
Art
Revisiting America’s Dead in Posthumous Portraits from the 19th Century
The 19th century saw the rise of the posthumous portrait when, through photographs and paintings, people preserved the faces of departed loved ones.
Art
Choosing Between a Folk Artist’s Story and His Work
Ronald Lockett believed in magic. So said sculptor Kevin Sampson during a talk in July at the American Folk Art Museum.
Books
America’s Secret Societies: A New Book Probes Their Art and Mysteries
What is more titillating — knowing that someone is guarding a delicious secret you might never be invited to share, or being charged with protecting some precious confidence of your own?
Art
Folk Art Relics from the Golden Age of America's Secret Societies
A strange visual language developed from the 18th to the 20th century behind the closed doors of American secret societies.
Art
Jean Dubuffet and Art Brut in the US: A Historical Moment Re-examined
What if canonical art history had been written not by academics but by art’s makers themselves? Who would have been included in such a history, and who would have been left out?
Art
In Transit: Willem van Genk's Cardboard Trolleys
The first United States exhibition of Dutch artist Willem van Genk’s work at the American Folk Art Museum offers a comic counterpoint to the recent Futurist show at the Guggenheim.
Art
In 'Self-Taught Genius,' a History of Label-Teasing Art Forms
In 1964, Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously noted, with regard to what exactly constituted “obscenity,” “I know it when I see it.” Similarly, among some art historians, collectors and other experts, just what can or should be considered “folk art” often has been a subject of criteria-ques