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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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), ...
The field of outsider art has too many problems to count, but the major issue is this: It’s based on a romanticized biography of the artist. Some dealers exploit personal stories in order to make ...
Alfred Jensen, “Twelve Events in a Dual Universe” (all images courtesy Hayward Gallery) Unlike the context for the Guerilla Girls’ historic condemnations of overwhelmingly male curatorial skews at the ...
Crossing into uncommon grounds / Lucy R. Lippard -- Toward an outsider aesthetic / Roger Cardinal -- Folk sculpture without folk / Daniel Robbins -- An anti-museum : the collection de l'Art Brut in ...
On the fair’s 30th anniversary, a question hangs in the air: Has this genre been absorbed by the mainstream? What is ‘outsider’ when its greatest talents are in the canon? By Roberta Smith It has been ...