Tag: Folk art

  • Troublemakers and Prophets: Elizabeth Allen and Other Visionary Artists

    The amazing story of an artist, who saw herself as a contemporary prophet, and made patchwork artworks inspired by the Apocrypha

  • Ivan Sotnikov: Painting of the 20th – 21st Century

    A private museum in St Petersburg showcases the works of an important local artist who died last year

  • The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky

    This exhibition of the art of the Plains Indians reminds us about the native US population’s story of struggle and survival, as European conquerors took over their ancestral lands

  • 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…

  • Arthur Watson: poetic conceptualist

    The work of Arthur Watson plays an important role in contemporary Scottish art. Characterised by a ‘poetic conceptualism’, Watson draws from a range of idiosyncratic experiences and predilections, all of which seem to be linked to his intimate knowledge of…

  • 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…

  • Searching for the Dragon of St George Street

    Earl Cunningham (1893-1977) or ‘The Dragon of St George Street’, as he was called by residents near his Over-Fork Gallery in St Augustine, Florida, left home at 13 to make his way in the world. He spent much of his…

  • The Art Scene in Santa Fe

    If you want to experience art in an exquisite setting, go to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Officially named La Villa Real de la Santa Fe de San Francisco de Asis (the Royal Villa of the Holy Faith of St Francis…