The annual Outsider Art Fair in New York opens tonight and continues through out the weekend. Outsider art still fascinates me when I think of how much some artists are struggling to establish themselves in the context of contemporary art, meanwhile these outsiders are just doing their thing. Why fuss about money and fame if that isn’t the real goal of the game? I notice that this desperation is the cause of the passive-cattiness in the system.

If this desperation isn’t enough to keep you out, then perhaps the cost of education will do the trick: The 2 year MFA from Columbia University is now nearing the 80K mark. ($77,624 tuition alone)

Outsider Art Fair (website)

January 25 - 27, 2008
Friday
Saturday
Sunday 11am - 8pm
11am - 8pm
11am - 7pm

The Puck Building
295 Lafayette Street, corner of Houston Street,
Soho, New York City

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