Staff at New York City's American Folk Art Museum (AFAM) are organizing for fair wages, benefits, and sustainable working conditions. On June 6, workers across the Upper Manhattan museum's departments ...

The American Folk Art Museum (AFAM) in Manhattan's Upper West Side will temporarily close its doors to the public this summer for a major renovation project set to revitalize the museum shop, ...

The American Folk Art Museum in New York has received a new gift of works made by self-taught artists from the legendary collection of Audrey B. Heckler. The works will be exhibited at some point in ...

The American Folk Art Museum may have lost its headquarters in Lincoln Square, but it’s setting up a new home in Long Island City. The New York Times reports that the museum plans to establish a ...

Perched atop churches, barns, businesses, houses and seats of government, weather vanes have for hundreds of years taken the form of everything from farm animals to pets, storybook figures to race ...

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