No Idle Hands, installation view at the Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) SANTA FE, New Mexico — To the uninitiated, the phrase “tramp art” ...

Standing before an audience of several hundred art-loving souls in Toronto in February, the Toronto art collector and curator Ydessa Hendeles quietly and confidently laid out her view of the artist's ...

Folk art often tends to have anonymous creators, unlike the fine arts, where artists can become household names. But when it comes to tramp art, a particular woodworking tradition that might ...

What deserves to be in a museum? It isn't a novel question, but it’s one that warrants continual re-asking and re-examining as artistic practices stretch, reshape, and thread their way through ...

Materials, Methods, and Meanings: Craft in the Archives of American Art explores how artists working across craft disciplines have redefined their fields through inventive uses of materials, ...

I recently finished reading Dr. Nancy Rappaport's excellent book In Her Wake, and it reminded me once again that our lives are works of art - or at least they can be works of art if we choose to make ...

A visitor to the Philadelphia Museum of Art views the French painter Fernand Léger's 1919 painting "The City." (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) As I waited in line to see the “Léger: Modern Art and the ...