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 ...

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 ...

During my first visit to the Outsider Art Fair in Manhattan yesterday, February 27, the overall experience was exactly what I'd expected: a few stand-out booths amid a sea of puzzling ones. I often ...

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 ...

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 ...

For all its talk about inclusivity, the contemporary-art world can be exclusionary. When was the last time you’ve seen a big show from a new artist without a fancy MFA? This adherence to the religion ...

🎧 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 ...