Edlin and the fair have played a key role in getting self-taught artists and Art Brut talent into major museum exhibitions, biennales and blue-chip galleries. Established in 1993, the Outsider Art ...

Small purple dots and squares coalesce into wild patterns branching in every direction, organizing themselves around a grid that expands beyond the edges of the paper containing them. They seem to ...

Apparently we do. From an art critic, of all people. In last week’s Village Voice, critic Christian Viveros-Faune wrote what would have been a great review of the current Llyn Foulkes retrospective at ...

Detail image. Della Wells and Anne-Marie Grgich with Sandy Jo Combes, Remember Sister, We Sisters Are Married to Truth and Freedom, Not Married to Fear and Lies, 2025. Photo by Souleo. As President ...

Outsider art, sometimes called art brut, or self-taught art, describes the work of artists who lack formal training or don't identify with any specific school or genre. At its most basic, it's truly ...

Christie’s sale of so-called outsider art, or works by creators with no formal training, on Friday at its Rockefeller Center saleroom in New York City blew past its presale expectations, coming in at ...

The former residence of outsider artist Ron Gittins in Birkenhead, a town in Merseyside, the U.K., has received Grade II listing by the country’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport, giving it ...

Any art fair worth its salt will introduce you to exciting new voices. But with its focus on artists who exist independent of the mainstream art world, the Outsider Art Fair is perhaps the fair best ...

🎧 Click the red listen button to take an audio tour of the Intuit Art Museum. Just in time for summer, Chicago’s home for so-called outsider art has reopened, following a multi-million-dollar ...

Step into 12 Pedal Junction and the instant sensory overload will likely bring you to a full stop as you survey what it has to offer. The whole place is packed with art and refurbished furniture, a ...

Crossing into uncommon grounds / Lucy R. Lippard -- Toward an outsider aesthetic / Roger Cardinal -- Folk sculpture without folk / Daniel Robbins -- An anti-museum : the collection de l'Art Brut in ...