With a landmark renovation, the Intuit in West Town has also rebranded to eliminate the divisive “outsider art” terminology.

Art brut, a phrase coined in the 1940s by French artist Jean Dubuffet, identifies a class of art that operates outside of what he termed “art culturel,” or fine art that is beholden to ...

Good morning, Chicago. Where most museums would open with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, the Intuit Art Museum, following a landmark $10 million renovation, reopened to the public recently with a ...

Edlin and the fair have played a key role in getting self-taught artists and Art Brut talent into major museum exhibitions, biennales and blue-chip galleries. Established in 1993, the Outsider Art ...

According to Dubuffet’s “dogmas”, Art Brut is quintessentially individual, reflecting the artist’s particular vision in their social isolation – therefore art groups, movements or ...

the impermanence of art brut. Discovered by Jean Dubuffet when the latter was working on the resurgence of the symbolic body, Nedjar became the protean artist whom we know today and who embodies ...

You don't have to take my word for it. According to Jerry Saltz, the down-to-earth Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic, for his money, The New York Outsider Art Fair is the BEST art fair in the world.

French artist Jean Dubuffet, who coined the original term art brut (literally, “raw” or “crude” art), was more embraced in Chicago than even in his native France — so much so that the ...

art brut, and outsider art from around the world.” Scott Sorensen, a clay artist from Roseville, left Friday morning for the exhibit. “Dreams come true,” he said. Sorensen packed business ...