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Outsider Art Fair, Smaller This Year, but a Model for the Future
A scaled-back lineup includes Daniel Johnston’s colorfully nightmarish drawings, plus chunky clay cameras and quilts as abstract as anything in the MoMA.
At Electric Lady Studios, in New York City, an installation view of drawings by Daniel Johnston, the rock star and artist who died in 2019.Credit.Olya Vysotskaya
By Will Heinrich
Jan. 28, 2021
This year’s Outsider Art Fair is a stripped-down and deconstructed one, just seven curated shows spread across four Manhattan galleries and one famous recording studio. (There are also 45 online viewing rooms if you like that sort of thing.)
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For over two decades, Emma Jones has committed to three practices: every Monday she sits where her son Malik Jones was shot and killed by police. On the fourteenth of every month she engages in an action in support of a victim of police violence, and every year she holds an event on the anniversary of Malik’s murder.
Everything changed for the Jones family on April 14, 1997, when 21-year-old Malik Jones was brutally gunned down by East Haven, Conn., police officer Robert Flodquist. “I said very clearly when Malik was murdered, that but for racial profiling, Malik would be alive today,” Jones said in a conversation with