Brian Dowdall, whose paintings are "doomed to make you smile," has been steadily collecting the work of other outsider artists nearly all his life. Full Episode Sunday, Jun 29 ...

Sometimes, all we know about an artist from the past comes from their artwork. This is especially true of folk and outsider ...

Chicago artist Robert Johnson stands in front of two of his window paintings at Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art in Chicago. (Chris Bentley/Here & Now) Outsider art is having an ...

Gig Depio’s exhibit, “A Brief History,” isn’t outsider art, it’s art about being an outsider. “When you’re in a place for a long time, you lose sight of it, and there’s so much you ...

The American Folk Art Museum’s transporting exhibition of the scroll-like drawings of the Mexican artist Martín Ramírez (1895–1963) should render null and void the insider-outsider distinction.

Posted in Art A Black Outsider Artist in a White Art World by Sabine Heinlein February 19, 2013 February 22, 2013. Subscribe to our newsletter.

Being an artist, by trade, luck or education, basically defines one as an outsider, someone who goes against the grain, who favours passion over practicality. But in the art world there is a ...

We’re coming out of a recession, but Michael Broadhurst has sold dozens of his paintings — close to 50 — over the last two years. We’re not talking Sotheby’s prices; a Broadhurst ...

His wildly detailed paintings of serial killers and degenerates (which fetched prices upward of $50,000) fit the outsider aesthetic, but fair organizers discovered that he had been to art school ...

Last week, Christie's held a 145-lot sale dedicated to outsider art, the latest in a series of dedicated auctions held by the ...

By highlighting artists from communities historically excluded from mainstream art institutions, the show challenges ...

The suit claims Kiyoko Lerner has no legal right to the work or the copyright of “outsider” artist Henry Darger, who died in 1973.