Much to the horror of the art-world elite in 1950s France, Jean Dubuffet’s work had a tendency to look like it was made by an amateur. His paintings, which have chunky surfaces that look either…

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Among the crucial insights of the American Folk Art Museum’s exhibition “When the Curtain Never Comes Down” is that the performative impulse was vital to self-taught (or “outsider”) artists long befor…

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A show at the American Folk Art museum features wondrous outfits inspired by objects in the collection

New York's Museum of Modern Art announced today that, as part of an expansion, it will raze the Tod Williams Billie Tsien-designed American Folk Art Museum (AFAM) building, adjacent to its building…

Today marks the launch of the American Folk Art Museum's online archive of the magazine Folk Art (formerly known as The Clarion). The New York museum published 118 issues of the magazine between…

Over 100 of Bill Traylor's lively, pared-down images are spending the summer at New York's American Folk Art Museum, spread out over two concurrent shows devoted to his drawings.

This new hope for the Tod Williams and Billie Tsien-designed building comes with the announcement that architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro have been commissioned to plan the MoMA's imminent exp…