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, ...

The fair fosters a welcoming environment for all those with an appreciation for art, regardless of background or technical know-how. Andrew Sloan, "'81 Chevy in the City" (2021), pen and colored ...

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 ...

Let our critic guide you through the bed rugs, the handmade playing cards and unexpected moments of beauty that stop you in your tracks. By Will Heinrich The 31st annual Outsider Art Fair, which ...

For all its talk about inclusivity, the contemporary-art world can be exclusionary. When was the last time you’ve seen a big show from a new artist without a fancy MFA? This adherence to the religion ...

Any art fair worth its salt will introduce you to exciting new voices. But with its focus on artists who exist independent of the mainstream art world, the Outsider Art Fair is perhaps the fair best ...

The world of Henry Darger, the solitary Chicago janitor who became an icon of outsider art after his death, is already a deep and many-chambered rabbit hole. Darger spent most of his adult life in a ...

Although he traced and painted and wrote in obscurity until the day he died, Henry Darger is, today, probably the best-known outsider artist in the world. In the past decade or so, the small space of ...