Hamtramck Disneyland, alley view (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — Outsider artists walk a fine line between being perceived as inspired or insane.

Last week my fellow Hyperallergic editor Kyle Chayka wrote a post about video artist Wendy Vainity, who makes bizarre, creepy, and sometimes funny 3D animations. Chayka began by posing a question: ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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), ...

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 ...

The world of Henry Darger, the solitary Chicago janitor who became an icon of outsider art after his death, is already a deep and many-chambered rabbit hole. Darger spent most of his adult life in a ...

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 ...

Austin's premier transmedia nonprofit OUTsider has officially released the artist lineup and schedule for their 10th annual OUTsider Fest, happening Feb. 15 - 18, mainly taking place at The Vortex ...