7W New York
7 West 34th St. between Fifth & Sixth Aves.
Thursday, January 26 preview, $35, 6:30 – 9:00
January 27-29, $20 (includes catalog and admissions to programs)
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The twentieth annual Outsider Art Fair takes place January 26-29 at 7W New York, featuring more than thirty galleries exhibiting painting, sculpture, and photography by self-taught, primitive, and naive artists, including Galerie Bonheur, Pavel Zoubok, La Galerie les Singuliers, Margaret Bodell Arts, Galerie Bourbon-Lally, Stephen Romano, and the Creative Growth Art Center. Among the special lectures and programs are Charles Russell’s “Groundwaters” talk and book signing, screenings of Is It Art? and The Films of Everything with the Museum of Everything’s James Brett, the conversation “The Roots of the Spirit: American Folk Art Museum at the 2011 Venice Biennale” with Martha Henry and Kevin Sampson, the panel discussions “Dubuffet’s Legacy” with Sarah Lombardi, Harmony Murphy, and Barbara Safarova and “Voices from Inside: Pano Drawings by Mexican-American Inmates” with Henry, Dr. Peter David Joralemon, Barbara E. Mundy, and Deborah Cullen, a look into “Creativity and Madness” with Bruno Decharme, Mieke Bal, and Safarova, and the symposium “Uncommon Artists XX” with Stacy C. Hollander, Carol Crown, Jane Kallir, and Russell, held at the American Museum of Folk Art.