The new home of the American Folk Art Museum opens its doors to the public on Tuesday, culminating a $22 million project that started in the late 1970s with the purchase of several brownstones just… ...

The Museum of American Folk Art in New York earlier this month changed its name to the American Folk Art Museum and moved into new quarters about 10 blocks away from its old home--and four times ...

The American Museum of Folk Art American Folk Art Museum is one of my favorite museums in America. It’s also one of my least favorites. I love the museum because it’s committed to showing so ...

Very few people now seem to remember that the American Folk Art Museum used to occupy an old townhouse on West 53rd Street, a setting surely less than perfect but with a plucky, can-do spirit that ...

The American Folk Art Museum looked more plucked than plucky at the close of 2011. The museum owns the most extensive collection of American folk art anywhere, along with a large selection of folk art ...

Over the last week, the architectural community has been all aflutter?and, okay, intensely divided?over the fate of the former American Folk Museum Building. A 12-year-old building that was opened ...

The American Folk Art Museum museum held its annual gala for the first time since this year's debate over future plans for the West 53rd Street site.

The Museum of American Folk Art is located on 53rd Street between Sixth and Fifth Avenues. I cannot help thinking all the time that the new museum, ...

The Archives of American Art has collected a wealth of primary sources documenting the contested terrain of American folk art. In celebration of the opening of the American Folk Art Museum’s new ...

In a statement released last night, Glenn Lowry, the director of the MoMA, confirmed that the American Folk Art Museum, designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien Architects, will be demolished in ...