“Tank Head” by buZ blurr, 2000, mixed media. Credit: courtesy UA Little Rock Windgate Center of Art + Design What defines a piece of art as “outsider” or “folk” can be pretty nebulous. Grounds for ...

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 ...

When Marcia Weber was first exposed to contemporary folk art and outsider art, she didn’t realize how integral it would become to her everyday life. “I come from a fine-art background,” Weber says, ...

Long perceived as the art world’s poor stepchild, outsider art—pieces created by self-taught creatives—is suddenly in the spotlight like never before. For one thing, this year’s Outsider Art Fair, ...

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 ...

It’s been more than 70 years since Jean Dubuffet introduced the idea of Art Brut, and the art world is still learning to embrace the genre of art made outside of more industry-approved avenues of ...

› What: Outsider Art Trail Tour› Where: Seven art and folk art venues in Summerville, Rome and Calhoun, Georgia› When: 7 a.m.-2 p.m. Trade Day flea market; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. galleries, Saturday, Aug. 17› ...

Vestiges & Verse: Notes from the Newfangled Epic, an exhibition of illustrated texts by self-taught artists, feels so intimate that it seems to enter the creative process itself. Already a member?

Although I'm commited to the high, I've always loved the people's art and try to catch this big show staged every year in the fine old Victorian pile built to house the satirical review Puck ("The ...