Features
New Ways of Seeing at the Outsider Art Fair
This year’s edition proves that the key to viewing work by so-called “autodidact” artists is recognizing its capacity and merit as equal to all other art forms.
William Edmondson
Art
William Edmondson’s Tombstone Blues
The self-taught artist, who carved gravestones for a living, is finally receiving institutional recognition.
News
Public Outcry Halts Plan to Sell Artist William Edmondson’s Property to Developers
In order to balance the municipal budget, Nashville was considering selling the park that occupies the site where Edmondson lived and worked for decades.
Art
When Artists Move from the Margins to the Center
The most powerful outsider artworks in Outliers and American Vanguard Art at the National Gallery of Art evoke ideals about all artists: the belief, for example, that they are distinct from non-artists.
Art
In Switzerland, Art Brut Goes Back to Its Roots
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.