Obsessive looking is the natural response to "Obsessive Drawing," the new exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum in Manhattan. Of the five artists in the show, who hail from around the globe, four offer work that is minimalist is design and maximalist in execution.

The fifth artist, Chris Hipkiss, is represented by a 35-foot-long narrative environmentalist diatribe, Lonely Europe Arm Yourself (1994-5), which is "operatic" and then some, to use the words of AFAM curator Brooke Anderson.

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