The Outsider Art Fair, now in its sixth year, held on January 23-25 at the Puck Building in Manhattan, is already outgrowing its name.
Outsider means everything, and it means nothing.
What you see happening is a response to quality, to works of art. That they are by the self-taught is secondary. The great works transcend the definitions. Ollman feels strongly that if this art is going to succeed, it has to succeed in a larger context. Jose Beria next to Native American ledger drawings.