A scaled-back lineup includes Daniel Johnston’s colorfully nightmarish drawings, plus chunky clay cameras and quilts as abstract as anything in the MoMA. By Will Heinrich This year’s Outsider Art Fair ...
Susan Te Kahurangi King, “Untitled” (circa 1965), graphite and colored pencil on paper, 11.5 x 16 x 4 inches (photo courtesy of the artist, Chris Byrne) As the Outsider Art Fair ⎯ which opens next ...
The 24th annual Outsider Art Fair opens in New York on January 21, and never before has the scope of what might qualify as — or, more precisely, of what is being called — outsider art seemed so ...
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 ...
The Outsider Art Fair is the rare event that inspires visitors to say to one another again and again, as they walk up and down the aisles, “Don’t you love coming here each year?” Open this weekend at ...
It’s a big week for outsiders, real and otherwise. Today, large swaths of America wince as a racist insult-comic ascends to the highest office in the land. President-elect Donald Trump ran on a ...
A recent gallery exhibition on abstract art and self-taught artists proposes a new story for the rise of abstraction. Susan Te Kahurangi King’s Untitled, 2022. In the winter of 2012, New York’s Museum ...
The show at the Metropolitan Pavilion is a big, expansive display of mostly smallish things but with a good share of stop-and-stare surprises. By Holland Cotter Outsider Art, which once had fringe ...