Features
New Ways of Seeing at the Outsider Art Fair
This year’s edition proves that the key to viewing work by so-called “autodidact” artists is recognizing its capacity and merit as equal to all other art forms.
Bryan Martin
Bryan Martin is a writer based in New York. He works as an editor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and earned his MA in art history from City College.
Opinion
Accessibility Should Be at the Center of Museum Education
Art history departments often fail to embed disability studies into their curricula when engaging with art, politics, and identity.
Art Review
What the Smithsonian Won’t Say About Grandma Moses
The benign narrative of the beloved artist must be deconstructed, as she also embodies the US’s detrimental values.
Art
The Art-World Pastiche of Marlon Mullen
The first artist with developmental disabilities to show at MoMA transmutes signifiers of art magazines and books into paintings that pulse with his singular vision.
Art
Kombucha as Metaphor for Parenthood
Anna Ting Möller’s search for their birth mother led them to cultivate kombucha to confront ambivalent feelings on motherhood.
Art
The Singular Vision of Morris Hirshfield
Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered highlights the need for more research on twentieth-century self-taught American artists, who were marginalized by restrictive art historical narratives.
Art
Why the Mbari Houses in Nigeria Became Extinct
Although the tradition of Mbari houses can never be revived, their rich history and broader influence on modernism in Africa is profound.