1807 1/2 21st Ave. S. What's new in contemporary folk and outsider art? Well, let's begin with another question: What is contemporary folk and outsider art? New York artist Joe Coleman's recent ordeal ...

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 ...

“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 ...

The passion for outsider, naïve, primitive, folk, and self-taught art—none of the traditional adjectives really captures its character—is one of the oldest romances in modern culture. For a ...

Christie’s sale of so-called outsider art, or works by creators with no formal training, on Friday at its Rockefeller Center saleroom in New York City blew past its presale expectations, coming in at ...

Christie’s is pleased to announce that Americana Week 2015, a series of auctions, viewings and events, will be held from January 16-26. Christie’s sale of Important American Furniture, Outsider and ...

Call it bold or banal, but I think enough time has passed since Hamilton‘s debut in 2015 that a New Yorker can make a reference to the musical without the city collectively rolling its eyes and ...

Iran & the Caucasus, Vol. 15, No. 1/2, Jubilee Volume (2011), pp. 5-47 (43 pages) Unordained clergy make Armenian prayer scrolls, which go back to the amulets against the Child-stealing Witch. They ...

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 ...

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, ...