Outsider art is a term that gets bandied about rather familiarly today as a catch-all for artists who have created outside the mainstream art world. Most of us could likely name an artist or two who ...

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 ...

Alfred Jensen, “Twelve Events in a Dual Universe” (all images courtesy Hayward Gallery) Unlike the context for the Guerilla Girls’ historic condemnations of overwhelmingly male curatorial skews at the ...

In 1985, the renowned, self-taught artist Howard Finster created the cover art for the Talking Heads’ album Little Creatures. The Baptist minister painted caricatures of band members in his folksy, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Johannes Lechner (“Lejo”), “not” (2009), pencil and collage on cardboard, 10.8 x 7.2 inches (photo courtesy of Galerie Gugging, Maria Gugging, Austria) Forget bananas stuck to walls with duct tape and ...

Outsider art is having an "in" moment. It's a label given to self-taught, unconventional and often uncelebrated artists. 'Outsider' Art Is Going Mainstream. But In Chicago, It's Always Been In ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A new art museum in Louisville is showing off a local artist's work for its inaugural show this week. Outsider Art Museum and Gallery opens Nov. 8 in the Portland ...

Outsider Art Museum & Gallery is opening in Louisville's Portland neighborhood on Nov. 8 with the first exhibition showing works of Mark Anthony Mulligan, a Louisville-based artist who passed away in ...