1807 1/2 21st Ave. S. What's new in contemporary folk and outsider art? Well, let's begin with another question: What is contemporary folk and outsider art? New York artist Joe Coleman's recent ordeal ...

A lively sale of Outsider art at Christie’s New York on Thursday morning totaled $2.2 million, with a sell-through rate of 98 percent across 143 lots. Without any of the more spectacular figures that ...

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 ...

Long perceived as the art world’s poor stepchild, outsider art—pieces created by self-taught creatives—is suddenly in the spotlight like never before. For one thing, this year’s Outsider Art Fair, ...

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 ...

Alfred Jensen, “Twelve Events in a Dual Universe” (all images courtesy Hayward Gallery) Unlike the context for the Guerilla Girls’ historic condemnations of overwhelmingly male curatorial skews at the ...

Outsider art is having an "in" moment. It's a label given to self-taught, unconventional and often uncelebrated artists, but in recent months exhibitions of outsider art have shown up at the ...

For its 27th edition, the Outsider Art Fair will welcome 67 galleries to New York’s Metropolitan Pavilion in January. This year, the fair includes such notable exhibitors as first-time participant ...

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 ...

If the academy, gallery system and museums have the power to define and promote art, the countless works that are ignored make up an entire genre of their own. Despite it being used for decades, ...