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Chinese art from the Guizhou province in southwest China is on display at San Ildefonso museum in Mexico City. Artists hope that this exhibit, entitled “Masterpieces,” will help bridge the cultural gap between China and Mexico. The works are from the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC) and feature more than 151 folk art pieces, including masks, sculptures and paintings. This exhibition will run through February 19th, 2017.

The American Folk Art Museum was cited by Roberta Smith of the New York Times for presenting one of the top ten exhibitions of the year: When the Curtain Never Comes Down.

This is the third year in a row that the museum has been honored by end-of-year praise. Last year, Willem van Genk: Mind Traffic was cited by art critics at Time Out New York as one of the top ten exhibitions of the year. And in 2013, Roberta Smith noted the importance of the museum's exhibitions of works by Bill Traylor.

The St. Louis Art Museum has announced a significant acquisition: “Sunday Morning Breakfast,” a 1943 painting by the highly regarded African-American folk artist Horace Pippin.

The painting, the purchase of which was approved by the museum’s board of commissioners on Monday evening, cost $1.5 million.

In January, Sotheby’s will offer an American folk art collection with some dark and risqué imagery. The auction consignors, Petra and Stephen Levin, philanthropists based in Florida, had filled their Vermont home with woodcarvings of prostitutes wrapped around clients ($30,000 to $50,000 for two pairs) and a shoeshine boy leering at a female customer’s legs ($30,000 to $50,000). In a diorama of a bar crowded with disheveled drunks ($20,000 to $30,000), cigarette butts are smeared on the floor.

Jean Dubuffet believed that art by self-taught and so-called outsider artists possessed an authenticity and creative imagination that was missing from professional art and from modern life in general. He called the work he favored “Art Brut,” collected it in great quantities and donated his accumulation of 4,000 examples to the city of Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1971.

On Columbus Day Weekend (October 10-11, 2015) the Antiques Dealer's Association of America, Inc. (ADA) will once again present their annual art and antiques show in picturesque Deerfield, Massachusetts. Held on the campus of Deerfield Academy, The ADA/Historic Deerfield Antiques Show is celebrated for its stellar dealer roster and remarkable selection of eighteenth and nineteenth-century American art, antiques, and design. According to James Kilvington, a Delaware-based antiques dealer and President of the ADA’s Board of Directors, “In terms of quality, it’s the best show in New England and I think that...

Frida Kahlo: Art, Garden, Life, New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
On view through November 1, 2015
This blockbuster exhibition is the first to examine Frida Kahlo’s keen appreciation for the beauty and variety of the natural world, as evidenced by her home and garden as well as the complex use of plant imagery in her artwork. Featuring a rare display of more than a dozen original Kahlo paintings and works on paper, this limited six-month engagement also reimagines the iconic artist’s famed garden and studio at the...

Leading authorities in the folk art field will present talks on the themes and ideas explored in the exhibition "A Perfect Likeness": Folk Portraits and Early Photography, part of Fenimore Art Museum’s Annual Americana Series.

The exhibition, “A Perfect Likeness”: Folk Portraits and Early Photography, which opens the same day and is on view through December 31, 2015, illustrates how early photography contributed to the demise of folk portraiture in the 1840-50 period. Established painters were deeply affected by the invention of the daguerreotype and their reactions to this early photographic method varied.

A rare 18^th-century Lancaster County fraktur, which a man found in a suitcase in a dump more than 30 years ago, was appraised at $25,000 to $35,000 on the episode of the “Antiques Roadshow” historical-artifact program that aired Monday night on PBS.

The Pennsylvania German folk art document, attributed to the unknown maker known as the Sussel-Washington artist, was appraised during the episode shot in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

1. Modern masterpiece designed around a major folk art collection. Sorry...weathervanes not included.

This warm and inviting villa is proof that folk art can be right at home in a modern setting. Unfortunately, the stunning Teiger House doesn’t come with the current owner’s enviable collection. Designed by Roto Architects for avid art collector David Teiger, the house is located in lush Bernardsville, New Jersey -- an area favored by the barons of the Gilded Age and home to numerous grand estates. Perched atop 6.4 acres, the L-shaped Teiger House features an abundance of natural elements such as an exterior made of stone, stucco, and ipe wood; Douglas fir post and beams; beechwood built-ins; and Yukon White Indiana limestone floors and counters. Rustic yet refined, the awe-inspiring Teiger House has been...