The passion for outsider, naïve, primitive, folk, and self-taught art—none of the traditional adjectives really captures its character—is one of the oldest romances in modern culture. For a ...

A Folk-Art Painting With Fine-Art Qualities John James Trumbull Arnold’s ‘Portrait of Mary Mattingly’ reveals the station of its young sitter’s family though the work’s details.

Russian folk art has never been much collected in Western Europe. But now, there are signs it is drawing greater interest, including in the Western antique market and the art world, as viewers and ...

Appraisal: Folk Art Root Sculpture, ca. 1900, from ROADSHOW's Special: Kooky & Spooky.

Drawing from his life in rural China, the gay artist known as Xiyadie uses a folk art form to tell his coming out story. His show is coming to the Blindspot Gallery in Hong Kong.

Folk artist Li Haiming makes an enamel drawing of the Four Great Beauties, four ancient Chinese women renowned for their beauty, in Peking Opera costumes in his studio in Lanzhou city, capital of ...