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Warm Institutional Embrace of Self-Taught Artists

Avatar photo by Lisa Slominski September 6, 2023September 6, 2023

There are no “outsiders” in this exhibition at the Cincinnati Art Museum.

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William Edmondson’s Tombstone Blues

Avatar photo by Isabella Segalovich September 6, 2023September 6, 2023

The self-taught artist, who carved gravestones for a living, is finally receiving institutional recognition.

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The Women Who Created “Naive” Art for the Darkest of Times

Avatar photo by Aga Sablinska May 16, 2023May 19, 2023

A new exhibition in Warsaw celebrates four postwar Polish artists on the margins of art history.

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The Singular Vision of Morris Hirshfield

Avatar photo by Bryan Martin January 10, 2023January 17, 2023

Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered highlights the need for more research on twentieth-century self-taught American artists, who were marginalized by restrictive art historical narratives.

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Nellie Mae Rowe’s Story of Freedom

Avatar photo by Ekin Erkan December 22, 2022December 22, 2022

Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe is brimming with examples of the artist’s imaginative allegorical art.

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The Prison Drawings of Frank Jones

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez August 29, 2020November 5, 2020

Frank Jones was “double-sighted” — born with a caul over his left eye — which gave him, or so it was believed, the power to communicate with the spirit world.

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Issei Nishimura’s Soulful, Expressionistic Art

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez February 8, 2020February 7, 2020

Intense and deeply personal, the Japanese self-taught artist’s work, now in its first-ever New York solo survey, defies easy labels.

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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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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).

Pratt Manhattan Gallery Presents Amazonia
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Pratt Manhattan Gallery Presents Amazonia

Curated by Berta Sichel with Patricia Capa, this group exhibition centered on the Amazonian rainforest, its native societies, and ecologies is on view in NYC.

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