The Craft & Folk Art Museum is losing an ampersand — and gaining a new name: The Wilshire Boulevard museum will announce Tuesday that it will go by Craft Contemporary, effective immediately. The new ...

ARE WORKING ALL AROUND US. WE FOUND SOME UNIQUE ARTISTS AT WORK. APART FROM MUSEUM COLLECTIONS AND BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS ARE THE WORKING FOLK ARTISTS OF TODAY. FROM HAND-PAINTED CHOCO -- CHALK TO THE ...

“He was collecting vernacular and designing modern,” explains curator Monica Obniski. An amateur collector might own a handful of pieces, a hobbyist a few dozen, and a serious collector a few hundred.

The hardest thing about filling a room with “folk art” is that no one knows exactly what folk art is. “It’s a term to be struggled with,” says Meredith Affleck, manager of the upcoming exhibition at ...

Credit the Pacific Northwest's music scene with inspiring the name of Washington State University's new exhibition, Indie Folk: New Art and Sounds from the Pacific Northwest. "When I found out that ...

Westbury Arts held the opening reception for Joan Kim Suzuki’s “The Gift of Remembrance: Modern Korean Folk Art Exhibition” on May 5, which is celebrated as Children’s Day in South Korea and Japan.

What comes to mind when you think of folk art? Maybe "country," or "old" or "unusual." Folk art can be from the past or the present. It's not taught in universities. As with most artists, the work ...

So you are responsible for clearing out your great-aunt's house and putting it on the market. It is a daunting task and you have no idea what is in the attic, the shed, the basement. But don't be too ...