Tag: American Folk Art Museum
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Ralph Fasanella: Lest We Forget
Ralph Fasanella’s paintings, on view at the American Folk Art Museum, record US history from the point of view of a life-long New Yorker, the son of Italian immigrants, a union organiser whose passion was the working class and social…
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Nico van der Endt interview: ‘Willem van Genk was a visionary, a man discovering a universal truth about the human species’
Willem van Genk, one of the most fascinating outsider artists, is featured in a new exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum. Studio International talks with his longtime dealer, Nico van der Endt, for a personal view of the artist
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Professor Mechal Sobel discusses her research on Bill Traylor
Mechal Sobel is one of the scholars who has reassessed Traylor’s drawings in light of the social and cultural conditions of the post-civil war south. Sobel is professor emeritus of history at the University of Haifa, Israel, and author of…
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Bill Traylor
Bill Traylor: Drawings from the Collections of the High Museum of Art and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
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In the Kingdom of the Gods and Goddesses
Then, in 1975, an even more remarkable underground city was discovered in Chandigarh. For 18 years, humble, self-taught Hindu artist, Nek Chand, had been secretly constructing an extraordinary folk art environment. Although Chand called it the Kingdom (nagri) of the…
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Two seekers of light – Ammi Phillips and Mark Rothko – meet in Manhattan
American Folk Art Museum, Manhattan 7 October 2008 – 29 March 2009
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Martin Ramirez Masters the Secret of Time
Until recently, few people knew much about his life in Mexico and early years in the states. Now that a biography has been pieced together, the American Folk Art Museum in New York has staged a retrospective for the artist.…
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Silence and Connection
A Deaf Artist in Early America: The Worlds of John Brewster Jr American Folk Art Museum, New York 4 October 2006-7 January 2007 The experience of being deaf was integral to the poignant portraits painted by John Brewster Jr. In…
