Media-based painter Rinal Parikh is redefining Indian folk art with contemporary themes and local imagery

As a blanket of snow and sleet melted into the grass and an early winter fog hung over the Delaware Valley last month, Rinal ...
The Virginian-Pilot

The Navajo story of adaptation and survival told through rare blankets and weavings

Even if they did not realize it, the Navajo women were weaving their story of survival into their art. In a unique collection of Navajo weavings at Colonial Williamsburg, some of the earliest blankets ...
Forbes

Artists Explore Ideas Of Home In ‘Somewhere To Roost’ At American Folk Art Museum

“Home” can be a place. The four walls of a dwelling. It can just as easily be a person or a thing. The arms of a loved one. Your homies. A pet. Food. A smell Homes can be lost, found, built, sold, ...
The Virginian-Pilot

Colonial Williamsburg to open Navajo art exhibit

A new exhibit at Colonial Williamsburg’s Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum will give visitors a look at blankets and rugs crafted by 19th-century Navajo artisans when it opens later this summer ...
Hindustan Times

Uttarakhand: Aipan folk art form gets GI recognition; 5 other crafts included

According to the documents submitted by Uttarakhand authorities in GI Registry, Uttarakhand Aipan art form is used to decorate floors and walls at places of worship Aipan folk art form, Munsyari Rajma ...
Hyperallergic

Where Folk and Fine Art Meet

Joseph Cornell, Untitled, Gift of Mrs. John A. Benton. © The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. (All images courtesy of ...
Robb Report

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum Selected as the Featured Loan Exhibition at the 2017 Winter Antiques Show to Launch the Museum’s 60th Anniversary Year

The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum (AARFAM), which will commemorate its diamond anniversary in 2017 and is one of the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg, will launch its celebratory year ...