The Home of Folk Art

Celebrate Henry Darger’s Birthday with the American Folk Art Museum & Rock-and-Roll Legend Patti Smith Live in Concert-Saturday May 15th, 2010

It is a benefit party for the American Folk Art Museum in honor of Henry Darger, one of the most amazing and celebrated outsider artists. Mr. Darger’s work is being displayed at the museum until September 19, 2010, in the exhibition Up Close:Henry Darger and the Coloring Books.

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The Home of Folk Art

A Changing of the Folk Art Scene at one of Americas Finest…

New York’s  American Folk Art Museum boasts  two wonderful locations in the city at 45 West 53rd Street and 2 Lincoln Square.  The Eva & Morris Feld Gallery (Lincoln Square Branch) rolled out their new exhibit in October which is spotlighting some special artists.  Many times Folk art is mistaken as being a more southern art form.  In this new exhibit AMFAM features Folk artists that not only hail from a more northern latitude but actually called New York home.  Enter – The Trilogy.

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