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: ...

When I began my teenage immersion into subculture-type things, I also began laughing at people. To prove that I was cool, I had to make fun of what wasn’t cool (I doubt I fooled anyone). My ...

Seven Days is 30, and we need your help to celebrate. With your donation, we’ll stay on track, delivering rigorous reporting on Vermont news and culture. Today at New York City’s Metropolitan Pavilion ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — Outsider Art, which once had fringe cachet, is now pretty well inside the mainstream fold. As a genre, it has developed branding strategies, a collecting base and a marketable canon of ...

A towering sculpture of a man in a blue suit greets you at Safnasafnið, the Icelandic Folk and Outsider Art Museum. (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) AKUREYRI, Iceland — If you set out from ...