A classic example of regional folk craft, Taghkanic baskets have been woven in a small corner of the Hudson River valley since the mid-eighteenth century.
At the 2019 Delaware Antiques Show
The Delaware Antiques Show is in full swing at the Chase Center on the Riverfront in Wilmington, Delaware, where it runs through Sunday.
New and on view at the American Folk Art Museum
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”
Portraits by a Minister’s Daughter
New scholarship offers insights into the life of the elusive early American artist Mary B. Tucker
Sew on and Sew Forth
The American Folk Art Museum shows off a recent gift of quilts
Folk Art: Opening eyes in Santa Fe
Once we abandoned the benign condescension about folk art several decades ago, it became possible to see the field for what it really is: a perpetual boundary breaker.
City Folk
A new exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum explores the relationship between commerce and folk art in old New York
This summer: art from the heart
This summer, three notable exhibitions around the country present wonderful selections of … call it what you will: folk art, self-taught art, craft, or just plain “art.”
The outsider artist as storyteller
Vestiges & Verse at the American Folk Art Museum
Shadows and scissors
The life and work of Everet Howard, early American silhouette artist.