The golden rays of the afternoon sun enhance the bold, hand-painted patterns on the mud walls of a round, thatched hut in Peggy Masuku's village of Matobo in southwestern Zimbabwe.

Elie Nadelman was an American-Polish artist whose work married the genres of classical sculpture and folk art. His sculptures of women and animals combined soft stylization with the industrial ...

Holger Cahill in his landmark 1932 exhibition American Folk Art: The Art of the Common Man in America, for the Museum of Modern Art, looked to the pre-industrial past for “the simple and unaffected ...

Even though from today's perspective, we speak of Young Poland's ‘chłopomania’ (a term describing a fascination with peasantry), the relationship between folk art and the early modernists ...

Renaissance paintings, medieval archives ... intricate drawings on view at the American Folk Art Museum are anything but simple Completed more than a century ago, these artworks reveal the ...

Art is in the eye of the beholder. In the galleries of the folk art museum, you'll discover an amazing variety of paintings, sculptures, and other objects created by talented, self-trained artists ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: Located 2.5 miles south of the Santa Fe Plaza on Museum Hill, the Museum of International Folk Art neighbors the ... ceramics and paintings to puppets and costumes.

From fanged cats and all-seeing ravens to anthropomorphized botanicals and disembodied faces, Michael McGrath ’s uncanny ...

While most Durga Puja pandals celebrate Bengali folk arts and heritage, some in NCR are embracing the theme of women’s safety ... The Kalighat-style patachitra art adorning the ceiling of ...

A local leader of the Mexican folk saint cult "La Santa Muerte" was ... But that didn't work for "La Madrina Chayo," a woman considered a leader of the cult in the north-central state of Guanajuato.

Several Durga Puja pandals in NCR emphasize women's empowerment and Bengali heritage ... is celebrating traditional folk art from four regions of Bengal – Birbhum, Bankura, Purulia and Midnapur ...