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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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Monumental Art No Bigger Than a Postcard

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez November 7, 2020November 7, 2020

Toying with blob-like shapes and the illusion of depth, the Austrian self-taught artist Leopold Strobl packs mystery and expressive power into small-scale drawing-collages.

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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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A Soaring Visionary of Afrofuturism and Black Power

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez March 28, 2020March 27, 2020

In Atlanta, the pride-affirming work of the African American self-taught artist Charles Williams comes into focus in a new, well-researched exhibition.

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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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Rescuing Art Sites on the Endangered List

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez September 7, 2019September 9, 2019

The American researcher Jo Farb Hernández has led the charge to preserve fast-deteriorating, self-taught artists’ environments — before they’re gone.

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An Uncanny Mountain Monument Is the Focus of an Outsider Artist for Half a Century

by Sarah Rose Sharp July 12, 2019August 30, 2019

As outsider art goes, you can’t get much further outside than Thunder Mountain Monument, built by Chief Rolling Mountain Thunder over many years, starting in 1969.

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How Psychiatry and Hallucinogenic Drugs Meet in Painting

Avatar photo by Dylan Brethour July 10, 2019July 10, 2019

The Bethlem Museum of the Mind’s latest exhibition Brilliant Visions: Mescaline, Art and Psychiatry plunges into the murky world of psychosis and psychedelics.

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The Disturbing Yet Hopeful Paintings of an Outsider Artist

by Julia Friedman March 15, 2019March 15, 2019

Bernard Gilardi’s exhibition suggests a positive grouping of misfits, a hopeful interpretation of the ambiguity within Gilardi’s paintings as a sanctuary for the odd.

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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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Looking Back on William Hawkins, the Outsider Artist Who Became Wildly Popular in His 80s

by Sarah Rose Sharp May 17, 2018

There is this sense, in looking at Hawkins’s bold and humorous paintings, of returning to something one has always known.

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The Insider’s Guide to Outsider Art

by Brendan L. Smith May 4, 2018May 4, 2018

The exhibition features some compelling artwork, but it falls into the same traps and stereotypes that have plagued many museum exhibitions featuring outlier artists (if that’s what we’re supposed to call them now).

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