Attention art aficionados! This Friday, January 21, two exhibits are opening at the American Folk Art Museum, celebrating the Museum’s 60th anniversary.
The first exhibit, MULTITUDES, will showcase a wide range of works – from dazzling early American portraits, needlework, and quilts, to idiosyncratic creations of the 20th and the 21st centuries, such as sculptures made of recycled materials, color-tinted photographs, and fragments of art environments. Presented non-chronologically, the works in the exhibition will be visually clustered to reveal not only their individuality but also their commonalities.
Additionally, Pushing Boundaries: 60 Years of AFAM Exhibitions looks back at over six decades, highlighting key exhibitions in the history of the American Folk Art Museum. It features a selection of beloved works of art and rarely seen documents from the Museum’s archives.
The American Folk Art Museum is located at 2 Lincoln Square (Columbus Avenue between West 65th and 66th Streets), and admission is always free. Visit their website at folkartmuseum.org for more information.
Photo credit: “New Jerusalem” by Sister Gertrude Morgan
