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 ...

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.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Michael Stipe first started engaging with outsider art, he was a young buck learning the curious folkways of Athens, Georgia, ...

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: ...

Today at New York City’s Metropolitan Pavilion, so-called outsider art takes center stage as the doors open for the 24th annual Outsider Art Fair. Among the ranks is Vermont artist, psychiatrist and ...

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 ...

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 ...