I think this had a lot to do with thinking about these terms like ‘self-taught’ that are used a lot in the outsider art world, which is the world that initially became kind of an area for artists with ...

Tucked away among the artworks at New York dealer Andrew Edlin’s booth at the Outsider Art Fair in New ... and his only professional contact with the art world had been when he walked into ...

The American Folk Art Museum has received a new gift of works made by self-taught artists from the legendary collection of ...

One reason that outsider art has gained so much recognition is that curators have begun presenting it in the world's biggest shows. Massimiliano Gioni notably featured such art in his 2013 Venice ...

The best and worst of the Outsider Art Fair, which opened to the public Thursday night, seems to come down to clutter.

You don't have to take my word for it. According to Jerry Saltz, the down-to-earth Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic, for his ...

Outsider art is defined as work "made by self-taught individuals, who are untutored in the traditional arts with typically little or no contact with the conventions of the art world." With this ...

Outsider art has an ever-evolving definition. The most common is art by artists who are not formally trained, or art that exists outside of the conventions of the traditional art world.