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40 Self-Taught Artists, Including Bill Traylor, Enter American Folk Art Museum Collection

by Cassie Packard August 12, 2021August 16, 2021

The gift deepens the museum’s holdings of Black and Latinx artists from the US, Caribbean, and beyond.

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When Writing Has No Meaning

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez August 8, 2020November 5, 2020

Scrivere Disegnando is an exhibition of more than 300 works produced by 93 artists whose subject is imaginary language.

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Keeping it Odd — and Real — at the 2020 Outsider Art Fair

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez January 11, 2020January 10, 2020

With a broader, more international scope, this year’s gathering will offer fresh discoveries at every turn.

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Discovering the Women of Art Brut

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez February 23, 2019February 22, 2019

In Vienna, a new exhibition showcases the ideas and accomplishments of self-taught female artists.

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If It Wasn’t Made as Art, Can a Curator Make It Art?

by Jeremy Woolsey August 31, 2018August 30, 2018

Curator Nobumasa Kushino raises questions about how and to what extent items and actions not originally intended to be art can be rendered such, and whether they should be.

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A Storm of Art Brut from the Balkans

by Joseph Nechvatal May 29, 2018May 30, 2018

An exhibition of ecstatic, mystical work at the Halle Saint Pierre in Paris questions what is visionary, anti-pop, art brut, or art brutish.

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In Houston, an Outsider Art Trove Finds a Museum Home

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez August 13, 2016August 22, 2016

HOUSTON, Texas — In this long, hot summer of violence, election-campaign anxiety, and widespread malaise, seekers of relief might find solace in music, movies or visits to museums — that is, in art in general, not so much for escapism, but for art’s reassuring messages about the endurance of the human spirit in the face of adversity.

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The Outsider Artist Who Built His Own Private “Disneyland”

by Sarah Rose Sharp August 4, 2016August 3, 2016

HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — Outsider artists walk a fine line between being perceived as inspired or insane.

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In Switzerland, Art Brut Goes Back to Its Roots

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez July 16, 2016July 16, 2016

LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The roots of art brut, as a field of research, may go back a century or more, effectively (if perhaps unwittingly) tracing the evolution of this unusual art genre in parallel with but separate from that of modern art.

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Jean Dubuffet and Art Brut in the US: A Historical Moment Re-examined

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez October 17, 2015October 17, 2015

What if canonical art history had been written not by academics but by art’s makers themselves? Who would have been included in such a history, and who would have been left out?

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A Chelsea Double Feature: Paper Meets Clay on “Homeground’s” Turf

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez August 1, 2015August 4, 2015

One of New York’s great resources is its daunting abundance of commercial galleries, which provide encounters with an endless parade of new and old art forms from around the world.

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André Robillard Takes Aim at Cast-off Junk — and the Stars

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez December 13, 2014December 13, 2014

In Europe, the self-taught French artist André Robillard is one of the best-recognized practitioners of this kind of art-making, although his achievements are still not so well known in the US, even among aficionados of outsider or self-taught art.

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