Outsider Art Fair: Art So Out It’s Almost In. For fifteen years, ever since I spent a day at Dubuffet’s Muse´e de l’Art Brut in Lausanne, I’ve been getting mailings announcing their new shows and wishing I had the chance to go back. Now it’s in New York in a major way (and apparently has been on an annual basis, at the Outsider Art Fair in Soho each January). Although as a psychiatrist I have been particularly interested in the works of art brut produced by those suffering mental illnesses, it is less a matter of who produced it than its spontaneity, drivenness and untutored nonconformity to any artistic formalities or conventions that defines the genre. New York Times And a self-proclaimed outsider artist (which, before the term was “in”, would have been a contradiction in terms) Max Podstolski contributes some <a href=”http://www.spark-online.com/january01/miscing/podstolski.html
“>”insights: to Spark which show how far the term has degraded.