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| For Collectors of the Fine and Decorative Arts |
| January 2010 |
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 The New Outsiders
With discoveries from afar and new ways of looking at the work of self-taught artists, the Outsider field is evolving.
By Edward M. Gomez
The late 1940s saw the first rumblings of appreciation for what is now called “Outsider” art—works created by nonacademically trained artists who operate apart from the cultural mainstream and its art-historical canon. In France, the artist Jean Dubuffet, the Surrealist leader André Breton and the art critic Michel Tapié celebrated visionary autodidacts, whose work they labeled “art brut,” or “raw art.” Ever since then, Europe and North America have been the main territories in which research in this field has been carried out and important talents have been discovered and promoted by curators and dealers. READ MORE 
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| Also Featured in January 2010 |
| Market / Previews of Master Drawings Week, the Winter Antiques Show, the American Antiques Show, the Ceramics Fair and big Americana auctions in New York; the Los Angeles Art Show, PhotoLA and ArtLA; and the Original Miami Beach Antique Show. |
| Exhibitions / Beauty and the Brain, an unusual collaborative show in Baltimore, tests the tastes of museumgoers. |
| Talking Pictures / Columnist Jonathan Lopez in conversation with author Henry Adams about the surprisingly close relationship between Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock. |
| Collecting: Chinese Porcelain / Long favored by Westerners, Chinese export porcelain has caught the attention of Chinese collectors. |
| Essay: Francisco Goya / In his harrowing prints, Goya took a photojournalistic approach years before photography was actually invented. |
| American Narrative Painting / Before there were movies, painters unfurled gripping stories on canvas, and many portrayed scenes from everyday life. Today the best of these narrative pictures retain their allure and capture a fascinating vision of a vanished America. |
| Ancient Egyptian Art / Art objects from one of the world’s oldest and most mysterious civilizations are within the reach of today’s collectors. |
| Books / Two very different books reflect on American antiques and why we value them. |
| In a Nutshell / Ancient Arctic ivories. |
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