Folk Self-Taught and Outsider Art

Museum and Gallery Listings (New York Times)

5 Sep 2008

Selective listings from art critics of The New York Times.

Film: Portrait Of The Artist As A Mad Man - Documentary Profiles Eccentric Cleveland Artist Rev. Albert Wagner (Cleveland Scene)

3 Sep 2008

Many years ago, when eminent documentarian Les Blank visited Cleveland with one of his short features about an "outsider artist," an eccentric self-taught painter-sculptor-costumer-composer-architect (The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists, highly recommended; catch it if you can), I tried to interest the famed filmmaker in East Cleveland's own Rev. Albert Wagner as a celluloid subject. Blank ...

Eloquent Visions: Outsider and Visionary Art (2008-08-30 - 2008-10-19) (Absolutearts.com)

1 Sep 2008

Orleans House Gallery in Twickenham is set to showcase the cream of international outsider and visionary artists in a forthcoming exhibition. Seven years on from its groundbreaking show Private Worlds: Outsider and Visionary Art, which helped promote this previously marginalised form of creativity to a wider public, Outsider Art has become widely known through high profile exhibitions, recently ...