On the last day before Christmas break, as a blanket of snow and sleet melted into the grass and an early winter fog hung ...

SANTA FE — “Truths Be Told: Artists Activate Traditions” at the Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA) made me reconsider what folk art really is. I’m used to curators making the case for why ...

Envision the house of your wildest dreams. Add your dream car, designer handbags and shoes, and more cash and gold than anyone could possibly spend. Facsimiles of these items, fashioned from bamboo ...

The rings and chimes of copper-coated iron bells echoed across Milner Plaza on Museum Hill as a breeze swept through. Bell-maker Janmamad Salemamad Luhar said in an interview through an interpreter ...

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WTVM) - The first ever folk art museum in Columbus is now open at the Columbus Collective Museums. The Folk Art Junction Museum held its grand opening Friday, March 15. The gallery is a ...

An upcoming exhibit is asking the question: what makes art in the Adirondacks unique? The Adirondack Experience: The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake is taking a look at how that art reflects our region, ...

With its complex geometry and designs, Ukrainian Easter eggs originated in pagan times. Artist and ethnographer Sofika Zielyk will discuss the colorful history and tradition of the Ukrainian Easter ...

MOREHEAD, Ky. (LEX 18) — The Kentucky Folk Art Center is continuing to find ways to be innovative. The museum was established in the 1980s in Morehead. It is now housed in a unique building which ...

LONDON — Drone warfare is silent, invisible, depersonalized killing. It is frictionless death. For those living in the countries from which the unmanned aircraft are piloted — far from war zones or ...

TODAY’S visitor to Indonesia will find artists at work in two rather distinct traditions. Let us call one the folk-art tradition, though much of such work is now more sophisticated than primitive, and ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The seeds of the Ukrainian band Yа́gody were planted long before their official formation bore fruit. The group’s origins stretch back to 2010, when actor Mykola Huseynov proposed ...

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