I received an email from Nasser and Co. in response to the article “WTF is Primitive vs. Tribal Art” where I had sited that the gallery had used both the terms “primitive” and “tribal” on their façade ...

Where do the terms “Primitive” and “Tribal” sit in our art lexicon? For the past few years I have understood these both as pejorative terms, but have consistently seen the labels applied to ...

Jennifer Moses writes a beautiful travel piece for The New York Times, about the paintings of Louisiana folk artist Clementine Hunter — and how Hunter’s work taught her to see the world in a new way: ...

Miss Willson is at least 150 years old. If she ever died, nobody knows when or where. If she ever had a first name, nobody knows what it was. About all that remains of Miss Willson is 20 primitive ...

Two exhibitions of objects of art are being arranged for this year, which will be of no little scientific, as well as aesthetic, interest. Of these, the first will illustrate the art of primitive ...

One-eyed Israel Litwak. a stocky little grey-fringed man, was too old to make furniture any more. At 68. he was not even up to varnishing, and so he lost his job. “Then,” he recalls, “all of a sudden ...