Contemporary art is a premium alternative asset class that attracts ambitious investors who are looking to outperform the major indices and diversify their holdings into an uncorrelated sector of ...

A lively sale of Outsider art at Christie’s New York on Thursday morning totaled $2.2 million, with a sell-through rate of 98 percent across 143 lots. Without any of the more spectacular figures that ...

Outsider art, sometimes called art brut, or self-taught art, describes the work of artists who lack formal training or don't identify with any specific school or genre. At its most basic, it's truly ...

When the crew of five that organizes the Outsider Art Fair (OAF) wrapped the eighth Paris edition on October 30, they found themselves with just three months to organize the New York iteration of the ...

Outsider art is having an "in" moment. It's a label given to self-taught, unconventional and often uncelebrated artists, but in recent months exhibitions of outsider art have shown up at the ...

That nebulous tag, Outsider Art, is stuck to self-taught artists inhabiting the margins of society and sometimes the norms of sanity, those unconnected to Art Institutions, and some who operate ...

Art fair season is upon us once again, but like everything else in the pandemic era, it's all going to be very different this time around. Starting things off is the Outsider Art Fair, which for ...

In 1985, the renowned, self-taught artist Howard Finster created the cover art for the Talking Heads’ album Little Creatures. The Baptist minister painted caricatures of band members in his folksy, ...

For 28 years, the Outsider Art Fair has shaken up the New York art scene by highlighting voices too often discounted by fine art insiders. A booth at the 2018 Outsider Art Fair in New York. Sean Zanni ...

Unbound by the laws of physics and imbued with a spirit of anarchy and rebellion since its earliest days, animation has always embraced outsider characters as they struggle to find their place in the ...