While its former home on 53rd Street faces the wrecking ball, New York’s American Folk Art Museum is—to borrow from Project Runway host Tim Gunn—making it work in a new, smaller space elsewhere in ...

As we reported yesterday, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has announced their plans to demolish the 12-year old American Folk Art Museum, designed by Tod Williams & Bille Tsien. The MoMA, which has ...

“He was collecting vernacular and designing modern,” explains curator Monica Obniski. An amateur collector might own a handful of pieces, a hobbyist a few dozen, and a serious collector a few hundred.

Rendering of Crow Museum of Asian Art at the O’Donnell Athenæum at UT Dallas, view of arrival and drop off from northwest. Image Courtesy of Morphosis Architects This new cultural district, located at ...

Indie Folk: New Art and Sounds from the Pacific Northwest, guest curated by Melissa E. Feldman, is on view now through June 30 at the Museum of Craft and Design in San Francisco, California. The ...

In studying early American folk art, there is no shortage of folk art documents that express early pioneer immigrants’ gratitude for reaching America in a time when many individuals still feared the ...

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 ...

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) announced today that in its next phase of expansion, it will tear down the 2001 American Folk Art Museum building designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects. The ...

Over the course of history, every culture has devised its own answer to the riddles posed by the universe. While literature unquestionably is one of the strongest records of human history, folk art ...