Andrew Edlin, the fair's owner, credits the popularization of outsider art to the dealers that stuck to it through thick and thin. Howard Finster THANK GOD FOR AN EMPTY CROSS (2000 AND 877 PIECES), ...

A lively sale of Outsider art at Christie’s New York on Thursday morning totaled $2.2 million, with a sell-through rate of 98 percent across 143 lots. Without any of the more spectacular figures that ...

1807 1/2 21st Ave. S. What's new in contemporary folk and outsider art? Well, let's begin with another question: What is contemporary folk and outsider art? New York artist Joe Coleman's recent ordeal ...

Henry Boxer Gallery’s booth at Outsider Art Fair, with George Widener, “Titanic” (2014) in center (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) Thornton Dial, “By Myself (Looking at Life)” (2012) at ...

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 ...

When Michael Stipe first started engaging with outsider art, he was a young buck learning the curious folkways of Athens, Georgia, while on the cusp of fronting the storied rock band R.E.M. Now, with ...

The fascinating story of black artists whose flamboyant colors, ocean waves, and swaying palms defined Florida for a generation of tourists.

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 ...

If the academy, gallery system and museums have the power to define and promote art, the countless works that are ignored make up an entire genre of their own. Despite it being used for decades, ...

Contemporary art is a premium alternative asset class that attracts ambitious investors who are looking to outperform the major indices and diversify their holdings into an uncorrelated sector of ...