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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Also featured is Aloïse Corbaz, the Swiss outsider artist originally included in Jean Dubuffet’s foundational collection of psychiatric art and one of the few acclaimed female outsider artists ...
Creativity Explored, a studio in San Francisco, and Progressive Artist Studio Collective (PASC), presenting with New York's Shelter Gallery, both spotlight work by developmentally disabled artists.
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 ...