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 ...

When Marcia Weber was first exposed to contemporary folk art and outsider art, she didn’t realize how integral it would become to her everyday life. “I come from a fine-art background,” Weber says, ...

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, ...

For 28 years, the Outsider Art Fair has shaken up the New York art scene by highlighting voices too often discounted by fine art insiders. A booth at the 2018 Outsider Art Fair in New York. Sean Zanni ...

In fact, Schultz is the director of the 3,000-square-foot Grassroots Art Center, which opened in 1996. “We collect and display ‘outsider art or folk art,’” Schultz says, explaining that is art usually ...

The American Folk Art Museum in New York has received a new gift of works made by self-taught artists from the legendary collection of Audrey B. Heckler. The works will be exhibited at some point in ...

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 ...

Inside Outsider Art: The Folk Art Perspective featuring works by William H. Clarke, Leroy Johnson, Sylvester McKissick, Willie Earl Robinson, and Mr. Imagination Exhibit Dates: August 8, 2007 ~ ...

Last week my fellow Hyperallergic editor Kyle Chayka wrote a post about video artist Wendy Vainity, who makes bizarre, creepy, and sometimes funny 3D animations. Chayka began by posing a question: ...