The other day, I was fortunate enough to attend a three-hour art exhibition staged in a public place, but nevertheless presented under conditions in which it was easier to ask forgiveness than to get permission. Because of the semi-underground nature of that wonderfully experimental show, I still feel uncomfortable writing about it; this is not…
“Outlier” is a term that resolves several terminological dilemmas in contemporary art. Curator Lynne Cooke has applied it to a hard-to-define group of marginalized artists in her magisterial Outliers and American Vanguard Art exhibition now at the High Museum, where the term denotes artists who have been variously named as folk, self-taught, untrained, vernacular, visionary,…
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