outsider art

5 min read 2023-03-04 05:48:15

At the Outsider Art Fair, Passion Trumps Prestige

At the only fair focused on self-taught artists, passion trumps prestige. Back for its 31st edition at New York’s Manhattan Pavilion, the Outsider

6 min read 2022-11-06 19:27:21

One of two sheet metal work sheds painted by the artist Coker, The Wizard of Perry South A blast of color. Soft pinks, big reds, cool blues and

9 min read 2022-05-10 21:32:00

John Beardsley– The subject of outsider art continues to attract high-profile attention: witness the exhibition Outliers and American Vanguard Art

5 min read 2022-04-19 21:27:00

Lisa Slominski– Nonconformers: A New History of Self-Taught Artists re-examines twentieth-century art history, with an exploratory reconsideration

7 min read 2022-04-12 15:31:14

By Lisa Slominski In this blog, London-based art curator, writer and cultural producer, Lisa Slominski, introduces her new book Nonconformers: A

2 min read 2022-02-28 12:00:00

Kids love dinosaurs! Basquiat was a great artist to learn about and let the kids draw Basquiat style dinosaurs!How did this go down?I showed these

1 min read 2021-11-24 16:08:27

There’s a passage by the great Salman Rushdie in his novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet that I’ve long admired and like to revisit every so often.

1 min read 2021-11-23 22:06:15

After viewing ONe Rad Latina‘s solo exhibition at Village Works, I was eager to find out more about the self-taught multidisciplinary artist. And

1 min read 2021-09-30 22:28:00

Interview with John Beardsley by David Ebony Today, James Castle (1899-1977) is renowned for the richly nuanced surface textures of his gray-scale

5 min read 2021-03-06 07:00:45

Serbian pop star Doris produces music that is a deeply idiosyncratic take on pop and rhythm and blues, with a nod to the 1980s and a Yugoslavia that

10 min read 2021-03-04 03:39:49

California's San Quentin State Prison is the oldest prison in the state; has more death row inmates than any other state; and has one of the

1 min read 2021-01-19 05:20:39

A new documentary called ‘Finding Vivian Maier‘ traces the life of Vivian Maier, a career nanny whose formerly unknown cache of 100,000

6 min read 2020-11-07 12:01:36

When it comes to the fields of art brut and outsider art, there is nothing that many dealers and collectors like more than the dramatic stories of

12 min read 2020-11-01 01:55:57

Decades ago, I accidentally began collecting stories and images of Texans who carried out unusual activities in the past. In time, I came to see

5 min read 2020-10-16 14:33:34

It helps, of course, that to Western observers a lot of Japanese food looks like a kitchen Jenga. Drawing it should be easy, an act of diligence