According to his psychiatrist, Philipp Schöpke possessed “the extreme opposite of what is called drawing talent.”
Edward M. Gómez
Edward M. Gómez is a graphic designer, critic, arts journalist, and author or co-author of numerous books about art and design subjects, including Le dictionnaire de la civilisation japonaise, Yes: Yoko Ono, and The Art of Adolf Wölfli: St. Adolf-Giant-Creation. He has written for the New York Times, Art in America, the Brooklyn Rail, Salon, Reforma (Mexico), the Japan Times (Japan), and other publications. Edward is the senior editor of Raw Vision, the London-based, international, outsider-art magazine. He is based in New York and London.
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Discovering the Women of Art Brut
In Vienna, a new exhibition showcases the ideas and accomplishments of self-taught female artists.
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What Is “Outsider” in Unthinkable Times?
Art’s uplifting power is unmistakably real; today, the works of the most original autodidacts feel more compelling than ever.
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Yoko Ono Sings As If Our Lives Depended on It
With Warzone, the artist revisits some of her older anthems, whose themes are more timely than ever.
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Glimmers of Modernism from a 19th-Century Bordello
A brothel customer’s photographs of 19th-century prostitution, made with sympathy and imagination.
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Elaine de Kooning’s Old House Is Art’s New Home
In East Hampton, the modern artist’s former residence is emerging as an unexpected cultural hub.
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A Pilgrimage to Art Brut’s Austrian Heart
An Austrian museum presents a wide-ranging survey of works made over almost 50 years by residents and other autodidacts associated with the Art Brut Center Gugging, near Vienna.
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When the Spirits Guide the Hand
An intriguing exhibition focuses on art whose makers were compelled to create it by forces greater — and far beyond — themselves.
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Outsider Art Comes to the Metropolitan Museum
The entry of works from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation into the Met’s collection has prompted the museum to rethink the way it presents 20th-century art history.
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Melvin Way Holds the Keys to the Universe
Melvin Way’s finely crafted, befuddling works demand to be understood on their own terms. But just what are they?
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Peter Hujar’s Elegy for New York City in the 1980s
Hujar’s photographs document the effervescent creative spirit that pulsed through the East Village as the AIDS crisis unfolded.
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Luisa Rabbia’s Tiny Marks and Big Mysteries
With her series Love-Birth-Death, Rabbia addresses some of humanity’s most enduring, universal enigmas.