'Outsider' Art Is Going Mainstream. But In Chicago, It's Always Been In
Outsider art is having an "in" moment. It's a label given to self-taught, unconventional and often uncelebrated artists.
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 Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Atlanta’s High Museum of Art.
While mainstream interest in the genre may be on the rise, it’s always been in the spotlight at , a small gallery founded in Chicago in 1991 that is one of the few museums in the world dedicated solely to
