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The Outsider Art Fair Gets a Makeover

by Corinna Kirsch on January 16, 2013
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“It’s singular. It’s the only one,” Andrew Edlin told me about the Outsider Art Fair. Edlin’s been running the twenty-year-old art fair since his newly formed company Wide Open Arts purchased it back in August. It opens in the former Dia building, now Center 548, over the weekend of January 31st, and according to Edlin we’ll see some deep changes.

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Your Weekend Itinerary: A Guide to the 2012 Outsider Art Fair

by John Gawarecki-Maxwell on January 25, 2012
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The Outsider Art Fair, one of the most high-profile annual exhibitions of folk and self-taught artists, will be celebrating its twentieth anniversary this weekend. The fair has long been a hotbed for presenting interesting outsider art from around the world and trends within the field, and from the looks of the schedule, this year’s fair – which opens this Friday, January 27, and runs through Sunday the 29th – will be no exception.

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Jerry Saltz Beyond Thunderdome: Folk Art Museum Architecture Defended By Critics

by Paddy Johnson on May 17, 2011
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Still more writers think critics Jerry Saltz and Roberta Smith should not be blaming The Folk Art Museum’s architecture for its financial woes. First NY Mag Saltz colleague Justin Davidson piped in Thursday, calling it akin to “faulting Mercedes-Benz for making such lovely cars that minimum-wage workers go bankrupt buying them”, and now Paul Goldberger at The New Yorker says architects can only work with what they are given.

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Infinite Variety at The Park Armory: An Interview with Exhibition Designer Tom Hennes

by Paddy Johnson on April 1, 2011
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This Wednesday I published an interview with Elizabeth V. Warren co-curator of Infinite Variety, an exhibition of over 650 quilts by The Folk Art Museum at The New York Park Armory. The interview was the first in a two part series which I talk to the professionals behind the incredible show. Today, in the second part of the I speak with Tom Hennes at Thinc Design, about the exhibition design.

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Infinite Variety at The Park Avenue Armory: An Interview with Curator Elizabeth V. Warren

by Paddy Johnson on March 30, 2011
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Over 650 red and white quilts currently hang from the ceiling of The New York Park Armory. Up for just four days (and closing today), Infinite Variety showcases the vast archive of quilts amassed since 1956 by collector Joanna Rose. It is her 80th birthday wish: “Something I've never seen before,” she told her husband Daniel Rose when he asked what she would like to celebrate, and “a gift for New York”. The show is completely free to the public.

I visited the Park Armory this sunday and was so impressed by the cylindrical scaffold towers of quilts and obsessive attention to detail I contacted co-curators Elizabeth V. Warren, guest curator and an a leading authority on quilts and Stacy C. Hollander, senior curator at the Folk Art Museum. I also got in touch with Tom Hennes at Thinc Design, to discuss the exhibition design. What follows is the first of a two part interview series with Elizabeth V Warren and Tom Hennes. Today I speak with Elizabeth Warren.

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