by John Gawarecki-Maxwell on January 25, 2012
The Outsider Art Fair, one of the most high-profile annual exhibitions of folk and self-taught artists, will be celebrating its twentieth anniversary this weekend. The fair has long been a hotbed for presenting interesting outsider art from around the world and trends within the field, and from the looks of the schedule, this year’s fair – which opens this Friday, January 27, and runs through Sunday the 29th – will be no exception.
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by Paddy Johnson on September 19, 2011
New York Times Roberta Smith issues an impassioned cry to save the Folk Art Museum. As the critic tells it, a litany of failures have occurred, ranging from investing in a building no one wanted to enter to last year’s hiring of Director Maria Ann Conelli, a woman who had never headed a museum before and knew little of folk art.
May this story arc differently than it did for The Jersey City Museum.
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