Over 30 of Daniel Johnston‘s drawings and paintings will be on display at Greenwich Village’s iconic Electric Lady Studios as part of the 2021 Outsider Art Fair in NYC. The collection was curated by ...

Bill Traylor, “Black Pig with Blue Eye” (ca. 1939–42), tempera on found cardboard, 11.75 x 11.75 inches (photo courtesy Just Folk) It’s that time of year again, when the annual Outsider Art Fair ...

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 ...

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 ...

When the crew of five that organizes the Outsider Art Fair (OAF) wrapped the eighth Paris edition on October 30, they found themselves with just three months to organize the New York iteration of the ...

Artwork by late Houstonian Charles Dellschau called Weather Lodge. Dellschau worked in isolation during his later years, and many of his creations were rescued from a trash heap after his death.

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 ...

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On the fair’s 30th anniversary, a question hangs in the air: Has this genre been absorbed by the mainstream? What is ‘outsider’ when its greatest talents are in the canon? By Roberta Smith It has been ...

How he survived the Great Depression in “El Norte” is unknown, but in 1931, drifting and apparently mentally ill, he was picked up by police in California’s Central Valley. For many years, Ramírez was ...