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

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

In the popular imagination, the 1940s were dominated by sacrifice at home and violence abroad as World War II raged on. But at a new exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, curators aim to ...

Artist Lucy Picasso points to her paintings on display at the Outsider Art Fair in New York City on February 27, 2025. Picasso — who changed her birth name, Louann Johnson, to honor comedian ...

Pan American Art, Miami is showing another renowned artist, Purvis Young. Shelter, NYC. Ronald Griggs, Ballerina and Dogman, 2024, Mixed media on paper, $505.00 ...

The book Outside In: Exploring the margins of art presents works by a group of mostly contemporary “outsider” artists and argues a case for critiquing them on merit—and the outsider art ...

In many cases these artists took up making paintings, sculptures, quilts or textiles outside of a day job, or later in life. In early 2023, Christie’s held an auction of outsider and vernacular art.

In his 1972 paper, the art critic Roger Cardinal defined “outsider art” as art that illustrates extreme mental states, unconventional ideas, or elaborate fantasy worlds, as is evident in Darger's work ...

The work of Chicago “outsider” artist Henry Darger has been displayed in galleries and museums across the globe and has generated millions of dollars at auction. But Kiyoko Lerner and her late ...