By Will Heinrich The Outsider Art Fair, which opens to the public Thursday evening, can sometimes feel like a rock 'n' roll junk shop, full of chaos and noise. But this year’s edition of the ...

Last year, more attention was paid to overlooked modernists and Indigenous artists . This year, don't be surprised if collectors looking for a hidden gem turn their focus to outsider art.

The American Folk Art Museum has received a new gift of works made by self-taught artists from the legendary collection of Audrey B. Heckler.

Tucked away among the artworks at New York dealer Andrew Edlin’s booth at the Outsider Art Fair in New York right now is a small plaque honoring Sanford Smith, who founded the fair in 1993 and ...

The exhibit features artists with disabilities from around the Pacific Northwest and will be open from Friday, March 7, ...

Outsider art is defined as work "made by self-taught individuals, who are untutored in the traditional arts with typically little or no contact with the conventions of the art world." With this ...

Bill Traylor was an American painter and one of the most celebrated Outsider artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. With his unique figurative style, Traylor depicted a lost era of the rural agrarian ...

The strange, satiric drawings of German artist Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern (1892-1982), long a favorite of Outsider Art fans, seem to be making the cross-over into the mainstream -- again. Here’s ...

Interact is displaying the paintings of artist Janice Essick this week at the Outsider Art Fair in New York. St. Paul artist Lucy Johnson — known in art circles as Lucy Picasso — has never ...

You don't have to take my word for it. According to Jerry Saltz, the down-to-earth Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic, for his money, The New York Outsider Art Fair is the BEST art fair in the world.