We asked five curators at major institutions: How are you installing and considering folk and outsider art in the coming years? The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Sylvia Yount, Lawrence A. Fleischman Curator in Charge of the American Wing, and Alyce Perry Englund, Associate Curator of Decorative Arts ⬬
Evocative doesn’t even begin to describe the latest exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts. For the first time in over two hundred years, a set of baroque-era armor is on view to the public alongside Juan van der Hamen y Léon’s portrait of Jean de Croÿ wearing it. ⬬
From her studio in Philadelphia, Melanie Bilenker creates beautiful portraits capturing the quiet moments of life. ⬬
Americans are growing more fascinated with Aboriginal art, which John and Barbara Wilkerson have been collecting since 1994. ⬬
Jeremy Frey, master Passamaquoddy basket maker, has taken traditional Indigenous forms to new heights. ⬬
Between 2022 and the end of 2024, collector and scholar Martin Eidelberg gave the Metropolitan Museum of Art eighty late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century works of European ceramic art, most of them now on view in Making It Modern: European Ceramics from the Martin Eidelberg Collection. ⬬
n 1905 Florence Thornton Butt used a sixty-dollar loan to open a supermarket—Mrs. C. Butt’s Staple and Fancy Grocery in Kerrville, Texas. Today Charles Butt remains the head of the grocery chain (now known as H-E-B), but he is also a passionate art collector focusing on American modernism. ⬬
2 Lincoln Square is ready for its much-anticipated refresh. ⬬
We asked five curators at major institutions: How are you installing and considering folk and outsider art in the coming years? Leslie Umberger. ⬬
We asked five curators at major institutions: How are you installing and considering folk and outsider art in the coming years? Kathleen Foster. ⬬