Just a few years ago, Audrey B. Heckler’s over 500-piece collection of outsider art had rarely been seen in public. Now, nearly the entirety of her holdings—one of the country’s most important and ...
No Idle Hands, installation view at the Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) SANTA FE, New Mexico — To the uninitiated, the phrase “tramp art” ...
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, craftsmen from many different regions of the country used a peculiar form of sculpture — the whittled walking stick — to communicate social signals, convey ...
U.S. News Insider Tip: Located 2.5 miles south of the Santa Fe Plaza on Museum Hill, the Museum of International Folk Art neighbors the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, the Museum of Indian Arts and ...
Last week, the American Folk Art Museum announced Jason T. Busch as its new executive director, replacing Anne-Imelda Radice, who retired in March after leading the museum for six years and steering ...
This weekend in the arts: "Doomgaze" at the Casbah, "Farm to Craft" at the Mingei, Barrio Art Crawl, "Neon Afterlife" in ...
MOREHEAD, Ky. (LEX 18) — The Kentucky Folk Art Center is continuing to find ways to be innovative. The museum was established in the 1980s in Morehead. It is now housed in a unique building which ...
At milepost 382 off the Blue Ridge Parkway, you'll find the Folk Art Center, home to the Southern Highland Craft Guild. The guild dates back to the 1930s and still represents the artists and craftsmen ...
Still mourning the American Folk Art Museum, a critic says, “We, and MoMA, don’t need any more Rauschenbergs, or Richters.” Bring on the outsider artists. By Holland Cotter What I’ll miss during the ...
Last year, when I was writing my dissertation on the history of Ukrainian folk, my research found a repeated pattern: Despite long histories of suppression, erasure, and destruction, Ukrainian people ...
Animated characters from the Netflix hit “KPop Demon Hunters” may feel thoroughly modern, but their roots stretch deep into ...