The definition of American folk art is notoriously difficult to pin down. In the twentieth century “folk art” has embraced everything from Pennsylvania German frakturs to eccentric architectural ...

Native Art Now! is a documentary that examines the evolution of Native contemporary art over the last 25 years, presenting personal perspectives from internationally acclaimed Native contemporary ...

The American Folk Art Museum looked more plucked than plucky at the close of 2011. The museum owns the most extensive collection of American folk art anywhere, along with a large selection of folk art ...

Native American campaigners are raising questions about the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s first-ever curator of Native American art — claiming she does not belong to a federally recognized ...

the Museum of International Folk Art neighbors the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture and the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian. In between visits ...

The surge of new American folk schools is reviving, sustaining and teaching a rich heritage of old crafts. These institutions, dedicated to craft preservation, are educational centers of their ...

The Fenimore Art Museum opened for the season April 1.

Artifacts going back 7,000 years have been found at the site, along with postholes, gravesites, human remains and other evidence of substantial settlement by the Tequesta Native American tribe.