Edlin and the fair have played a key role in getting self-taught artists and Art Brut talent into major museum exhibitions, biennales and blue-chip galleries. Established in 1993, the Outsider Art ...

A spate of acquisitions announced this week includes works by famed outsider artist William Hawkins and early 20th-century realist George Bellows.

The American Folk Art Museum in New York has received a new gift of works made by self-taught artists from the legendary collection of Audrey B. Heckler. The works will be exhibited at some point in ...

In the last five decades the popularity of outsider art (works by artists working outside of the art establishment) has grown exponentially. Museums, galleries, and the public worldwide have embraced ...

NEW YORK — Outsider Art, which once had fringe cachet, is now pretty well inside the mainstream fold. As a genre, it has developed branding strategies, a collecting base and a marketable canon of ...

Has the outsider art field become a victim of its own success? If so, it is a peculiar “victim,” and its success must be measured by standards that go beyond the money-obsessed art world’s primary ...

From gifting to trusts to building a private own museum, art collectors can keep the collection—and the peace—intact with strategic estate planning. Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images Picture this: A ...

Martín Ramírez,”Untitled (Tunnel with Cars and Buses)” (1954), reproduced as one of five new ‘Forever’ Stamps by the United States Postal Service (© 2015 USPS) (click to enlarge) Blue-chip outsider ...

HICKORY ­-- Winged angels, pitchfork-wielding devils, Jesus, Adam and Eve and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are among the biblical figures who appear repeatedly in "Silent Preachers and Bringers ...