AnalysisArt market
Neurodiverse and disabled artists are joining the mainstream—yet discrimination persists
With Project Art Works nominated for the Turner Prize and growing institutional interest, the art world is waking up to "outsiders" but advocates fear their exploitation
NewsAcquisitions
American Folk Art Museum acquires 40 significant works by self-taught artists
Gift includes examples by Horace Pippin, Sister Gertrude Morgan and Bill Traylor
NewsOutsider art
Art Preserve: first museum devoted to America’s homegrown ‘art environments’ opens in Wisconsin
The John Michael Kohler Arts Center has built the new facility to house more than 25,000 "life-specific" works, created over years by untrained artists using found materials
NewsArt market
Takashi Murakami organises Outsider art sculpture show in vast New York space
Collectors can still break into market for self-taught work, says fair founder
NewsAcquisitions
Adding to a robust trove, High Museum in Atlanta fields a gift of works by self-taught artists
Local couple donates 47 paintings, drawings and sculptures by Southerners and African Americans
ReviewArt market
'Renegade' Outsider Art Fair opens in multi-venue format in New York
Exhibitions are taking place across several galleries, although some workshops that support artists with disabilities have been unable to take part due to challenges of pandemic
NewsAcquisitions
Yuichiro Ukai’s manga monster drawing acquired by American Folk Art Museum
The 25-year-old Japanese self-taught artist’s densely layered Yokai is his first piece to enter a museum’s collection
NewsObituaries
Ruth DeYoung Kohler II, Outsider art champion and Art Preserve founder, has died, aged 79
She helped establish the John Michael Kohler Art Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin as one of the leading institutions dedicated to self-taught artists
NewsAcquisitions
American Folk Art Museum announces gift of over 500 works by self-taught artists
Trove donated by collector Audrey B. Heckler includes examples of European Art Brut and works by African-American artists
AnalysisOutsider art
Outsider art pulls an 'in' crowd in New York
The city's Americana week saw works by 20th century self-taught artists edging out traditional folk art and antiques thanks to a growing celebrity-studded client base
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Grassroots band of locals organise a squat to protect Gerry's Pompeii
NewsArt market
New York’s Americana week reveals a generational shift in taste
Sales lag while demand for folk art is on the rise as Millennials move away from a ‘Home Alone’ aesthetic
BlogLinda on the loose
The Outsider Art Fair: a victim of its own success?
The event does better when it casts a wide net, while sticking closer to its roots
NewsArt fairs
The mainstreaming of outsider art yields a market in flux
New York’s Outsider Art Fair swells in size as it looks to align itself with larger contemporary art fairs
BlogThe Buck stopped here
The mysterious Hermione: Andy Holden and Jarvis Cocker celebrate unknown British artist with homemade wine and mix-tapes
NewsArt fairs
Outsider Art Fair postones first Basel edition
Director Andrew Edlin says the fair is still a modest operation
NewsArtists
Pallant House Gallery to host UK's first outsider art conference
May event organised by the charity Outside In and European Outsider Art Association aims to give voice to artists on margins of society
ReviewExhibitions
National Gallery of Art show integrates the outliers
Outliers and American Vanguard Art in Washington, DC, makes clear that schooled and self-taught artists have never been that far apart
NewsArt market
The Outsider Art Fair to launch first Basel edition this summer
The Basel programming may centre on Swiss art brut artists and institutions
NewsArt market
Outsider Art Fair welcomes new exhibitors to New York
Genre continues to embrace ever-widening fringe, to collectors’ delight
NewsExhibitions
Sotheby's brings outsider art to Bond Street
Exhibition with charity Outside In shows work by "hidden" artists working outside mainstream society
NewsArt fairs
China discovers its self-taught artists
Alternative art festival launched in Beijing draws on pioneering work of Nanjing Outsider Art Centre
ArchiveExhibitions
Japanese Outsider Art gets a warm Wellcome
The exhibition will bring together more than 300 works by residents of social welfare institutions on the country’s Honshu island
ArchiveCollectors
Collector interview: Peter Fay, Australia’s champion of the outsider
The collector of works that are knotty, passionate, perverse and deeply personal talks about his tastes and his gift to the nation