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American Folk Art Museum. Now Open•Francesc Tosquelles: Avant-Garde Psychiatry and the Birth of Art Brut. Somewhere to Roost. Featuring over 60 works including paintings, textiles, photographs, and sculptures, Somewhere to Roost explores how artists evoke and construct ideas of “home.”. Visitor Information.
American Perspectives: Stories from the American Folk Art Museum Collection. February 11, 2020–January 3, 2021. Curator: Stacy C. Hollander
The American Folk Art Museum is an art museum in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, at 2 Lincoln Square, Columbus Avenue at 66th Street.
Candid, genuine, and unexpected, we are New York City’s only museum dedicated to folk & self-taught artists. Since 1961, the Museum has celebrated the creativity of individuals whose singular talents have been refined largely through personal experience rather than formal artistic training.
The American Folk Art Museum is a free museum and New York City's only museum devoted to the work of folk and self-taught artists.
6 days ago · Nor is it always a location, or a place. Home can be a state of mind,” says Brooke Wyatt, curator of a show at the American Folk Art Museum called “Somewhere to Roost.”. The collection of 60 pieces explores artists’ conceptions of home in paintings, illustrations, folk art objects, collages, blanket chests, quilts and family photographs.
The American Folk Art Museum engages people of all backgrounds through its collections, exhibitions, publications, and programs as the leading forum shaping the understanding and...
