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Featuring over 60 works including paintings, textiles, photographs, and sculptures, Somewhere to Roost explores how artists evoke and construct ideas of “home.”. Visitor Information. The Museum is open from 11:30 to 6:00 PM from Wednesday to Sunday. Advanced ticketing is encouraged.
January 24, 2021–June 6, 2021. Curator: Curators: Valérie Rousseau, PhD, Senior Curator, and Bruno Decharme in collaboration with Barbara Safarova, Sam Stourdzé, and Paula Aisember. American Perspectives: Stories from the American Folk Art Museum Collection. February 11, 2020–January 3, 2021.
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.
Join us for a public tour of current exhibitions, Francesc Tosquelles: Avant-Garde Psychiatry and the Birth of Art Brut and Somewhere to Roost. 1:00 pm–2:00 pm. Free with registration.
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. It is the premier institution devoted to the aesthetic appreciation of folk art and creative expressions of contemporary self-taught artists from the United States and abroad.
American Folk Art Museum; 2 Lincoln Square, New York City ; Free Admission; Open Today 11:30-6:00 pm
Researchers. Library and Archives. Self-Taught Genius Gallery. Explore the Collection.
The Museum is open from 11:30 to 6:00 PM from Wednesday to Sunday. Advanced ticketing is encouraged. Drop-ins are welcome. Admission is free. Film Series
Through 125 remarkable works including paintings, needlework, and photographs, this exhibition invites visitors to focus on figures who appear in—or are omitted from—early American images and will challenge conventional narratives that have minimized early Black histories in the North, revealing the complexities and contradictions of the ...
The American Folk Art Museum is all about art and crafts by Americans who made incredible things without any formal artistic training. There's no snobbery here—the museum is all about ...
