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 ...

When Michael Stipe first started engaging with outsider art, he was a young buck learning the curious folkways of Athens, Georgia, while on the cusp of fronting the storied rock band R.E.M. Now, with ...

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 ...

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, ...

Andrew Edlin, the fair's owner, credits the popularization of outsider art to the dealers that stuck to it through thick and thin. Howard Finster THANK GOD FOR AN EMPTY CROSS (2000 AND 877 PIECES), ...

Given the high-stakes drama that’s marked the first three weeks of 2020—an assassination in Iran, a retaliatory strike on U.S. bases in Iraq, an impeachment hearing, and, yes, the royal Megxit—the ...

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, ...

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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 ...

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 ...