Art
Although he traced and painted and wrote in obscurity until the day he died, Henry Darger is, today, probably the best-known outsider artist in the world. In the past decade or so, the small space of his one-room Chicago apartment ceded to the spacious galleries of museums and art fairs, and Henry D
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There's something captivating about outsider art. The energy of it feels different somehow. In the past two decades, the field has grown enormously, and in the process, it's become more integrated with the contemporary art world. Unknown artists have been discovered, more galleries devoted to self-t
Opinion
A post by my fellow editor Kyle Chayka got me thinking about the "outsider artist" designation and the different ways people define it.
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By all accounts, Pearl Blauvelt (1893–1987) was a recluse who lived in northeastern Pennsylvania in a house without running water, plumbing or central heating. Her neighbors referred to her as the “Village Witch.” In the mid 1950s, she was declared incompetent and moved to a facility where she resid
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On the internet exhibition space The State, a Tumblr-based website, artist Chris Collins has published “tyepilot.com”. The text and image-based essay riffs off the artist's discovery of a hidden cache of spam images advertising work-from-home internet jobs. Tyepilot's images are remarkably reminisce