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.)