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 ...

Mexican folk art’s fearless colors, bold motifs, and deep cultural roots are finding fresh life in contemporary interior design. From Otomi embroidery to Talavera tiles, traditional patterns are being ...

Having researched several folk art PA Dutch Bieber dower chests, I was drawn to an unusual 1780 example which was photographed in Slator’s Antique Newspaper in 1997. An important folk art designed ...

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 ...

On a balmy afternoon several weeks ago, Alfred "Big Al" Taplet, a portly man in paint-spattered work clothes, stood in an open garage, applying the final touches to a manhole-size sheet of plywood.

SANTA FE — “Truths Be Told: Artists Activate Traditions” at the Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA) made me reconsider what folk art really is. I’m used to curators making the case for why ...

In January of this year, the latest work by Smiljan Radic, the Chilean architect chosen to design the next Serpentine Pavilion, opened to public acclaim. The Museum of Pre-Columbian Art (Museo de Arte ...

Herald & Review/Kevin Kilhoffer Pat Fischer owns Antiques-N-Art store in downtown Casey. Her American folk art designs have been used by retailers throughout the country.

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 ...

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 ...