In celebration of the opening of the American Folk Art Museum’s new building at 45 West 53rd Street, the Archives presents selected documents from the papers of the tastemakers who advanced the ...

This creative flow, much of which involved exploring and arranging Argentinian folk songs, became a writing exercise that launched Musayelyan toward creating a new album. The album, entitled Strange ...

The American Folk Art Museum (AFAM ... Gift Drawings and the Shaker Aesthetic (2025–25) exhibition (photo Valentina Di Liscia/Hyperallergic) In addition to its robust collection of folk quilts ...

In this lesson, we are exploring the guitar style of one of the most celebrated ‘protest singers’ of America in the 1960s and beyond. A legend of the folk genre, Joan Baez was born in New York ...

Independence-minded folk singers of the 1730s wrote anti-British songs so “seditious” that Governor William Cosby of New York felt called upon to stage a public song burning. In the America ...