The want for space is now being addressed at the museum’s main exhibition site at 2 Lincoln Square in Manhattan, with the inauguration of new “gallery”
Sew on and Sew Forth
The American Folk Art Museum shows off a recent gift of quilts
Folk art flashbacks
Stacy Hollander recently relinquished her long and laudable curatorial career at the American Folk Art Museum, a constant through the many changes AFAM has seen over the years.
City Folk
A new exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum explores the relationship between commerce and folk art in old New York
Art, science, and the Second Great Awakening
The American Folk Art Museum examines the work of Orra White Hitchcock, scientific illustrator and minister’s wife
The outsider artist as storyteller
Vestiges & Verse at the American Folk Art Museum
Genius at work and on view in Queens
AFAM’s Self-Taught Genius Gallery opened on September 26 in LIC with an exhibition of some fifty-five works culled from the museum’s huge Self-Taught Genius: Treasures from the American Folk Art Museum exhibition that toured the country, appearing in seven venues over three-and-a-half years.
A stitch in wartime
The American Folk Art Museum presents a fascinating collection of quilts made by men at arms.
Mad Scientist
The strange, protean artistry of Eugen Gabritschevsky.
An art brut debut at the American Folk Art Museum
Zinelli painted for up to eight hours a day, producing nearly nineteen-hundred works of art.