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 ...

“Tank Head” by buZ blurr, 2000, mixed media. Credit: courtesy UA Little Rock Windgate Center of Art + Design What defines a piece of art as “outsider” or “folk” can be pretty nebulous. Grounds for ...

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 ...

The passion for outsider, naïve, primitive, folk, and self-taught art—none of the traditional adjectives really captures its character—is one of the oldest romances in modern culture. For a ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Call it bold or banal, but I think enough time has passed since Hamilton‘s debut in 2015 that a New Yorker can make a reference to the musical without the city collectively rolling its eyes and ...

Although he traced and painted and wrote in obscurity until the day he died, Henry Darger is, today, probably the best-known outsider artist in the world. In the past decade or so, the small space of ...

Although I'm commited to the high, I've always loved the people's art and try to catch this big show staged every year in the fine old Victorian pile built to house the satirical review Puck ("The ...