The American Folk Art Museum (AFAM) in New York has acquired a significant gift from the collection of Museum Trustee Laura Parsons and her husband, Richard Parsons. The Parsons’ gift has .
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Aminah Robinson is a name familiar to many people in Columbus. When the African American artist died in 2015, she donated her house and studio to the Columbus Museum of Art. There was an enormous treasure trove that no one had ever seen before. We can now see many of these works in a show at the museum,
Raggin On: The Art of Aminah Brenda Lynne Robinson’s House and Journals.
When you walk into the exhibit, you first see a large chair. It’s kind of a throne with intricate carvings in leather and tree roots. Curator Deidre Hamlar describes the chair’s origins.
Takashi Murakami Curates Monumental Super-Rough Exhibition Presenting a large-scale presentation of sculptures.
Takashi Murakami has been tapped by Outsider Art Fair organizers to curate a monumental presentation of sculptures in New York City. Murakami will lend his curatorial talents for an immense exhibition featuring artworks crafted by folk artists from all across the globe. Called “Super-Rough,” the presentation is an extension of the fair’s annual programming that champions dimensionality and handmade aesthetics versus the more sleek and “shiny consumer consciousness” of most contemporary art fairs.
“‘Super-Rough,’ a word play on ’Superflat’––Murakami’s highly influential, conceptual explication for the phenomenon of a new genre of Japanese Pop Art as it emerged towards the end of the last millennium––counterposes the private, idiosyncratic and visionary universe of outsider art as an alternative to c
Curious Objects: Bill Traylor on the Silver Screen, with filmmakers Sam Pollard and Jeffrey Wolf Editorial Staff
Photograph by Horace Perry, courtesy of the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
In April of 1853 a child was born into slavery on an Alabama cotton plantation owned by George Traylor. His first name was Bill and he would take the plantation owner’s last name for himself. A sharecropper and laborer for most of his life, in the decades since his death in 1949 Bill Traylor has become known to the world as an artist. Now, a new documentary tells Bill Traylor’s story on film for the first time. Ben Miller speaks with executive producer Sam Pollard and director Jeffrey Wolf about
Columbus Alive
In February of 2020, Don “DonCee” Coulter drove to New York City, where the Westbeth Gallery included his fabric work in a group show, “The Gold Standard of Textile and Fiber Art.” Coulter got to the gallery’s address an hour early for his artist talk and pulled into a nearby parking garage. The attendant was like, ‘I don t think you want to do this.’ I m like, ‘What are you talking about? I need to park.’ He was like, ‘It’s $55 an hour,’” said Coulter, who looked around and saw rows of luxury cars. “He was like, ‘Hurry up and back up before somebody comes in.’”