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Outsider Art Fair
The Outsider Art Fair or OAF is an international exhibition that features outsider artists who work in a variety of mediums. It is a biannual fair occurring in New York City and Paris, the former taking place in January and the latter in October. Plans were made for a Basel edition in 2018 to run alongside Art Basel, but has since been postponed until further notice. History The Outsider Art Fair was founded in New York in 1993 by Sanford Smith as a way to help outsider artists exhibit and showcase their work. In 2013 the fair was bought by the art dealer Andrew Edlin through the company Wide Open Arts, LLC. The Outsider Art Fair originated in New York, but under new leadership has been able to expand to Paris, the first edition of which took place in October 2013. The fair takes place twice annually: with the New York edition taking place in January and the Paris edition in October. With owners changing hand so has the venue for the two editions, the New York happening at the Met ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the List of United States cities by population density, most densely populated major city in the United States, and is more than twice as populous as second-place Los Angeles. New York City lies at the southern tip of New York (state), New York State, and constitutes the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban area, urban landmass. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world's most populous Megacity, megacities, and over 58 million people live within of the city. New York City is a global city, global Culture of New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Gilardi
Bernard (''Bernhard'') is a French and West Germanic masculine given name. It is also a surname. The name is attested from at least the 9th century. West Germanic ''Bernhard'' is composed from the two elements ''bern'' "bear" and ''hard'' "brave, hardy". Its native Old English reflex was ''Beornheard'', which was replaced by the French form ''Bernard'' that was brought to England after the Norman Conquest. The name ''Bernhard'' was notably popular among Old Frisian speakers. Its wider use was popularized due to Saint Bernhard of Clairvaux (canonized in 1174). Bernard is the second most common surname in France. Geographical distribution As of 2014, 42.2% of all known bearers of the surname ''Bernard'' were residents of France (frequency 1:392), 12.5% of the United States (1:7,203), 7.0% of Haiti (1:382), 6.6% of Tanzania (1:1,961), 4.8% of Canada (1:1,896), 3.6% of Nigeria (1:12,221), 2.7% of Burundi (1:894), 1.9% of Belgium (1:1,500), 1.6% of Rwanda (1:1,745), 1.2% of Germany (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raphaël Lonné
Raphael was an Italian Renaissance painter. Raphael or Raphaël may also refer to: Music *Raphael (band), a Japanese rock band active 1997–2001 * ''Raphael'' (opera), an 1894 opera by Anton Arensky *Raphael (musician), American musician and composer of ambient music *Raphael (singer), Spanish singer *Raphaël Haroche, French singer known by the mononym Raphaël *The Raphaels, an alternative country music band Names *Raphael (given name), a name of Hebrew origin *Raphael (surname) *Raphael (footballer) (born 1985), full name Raphael Tessaro Schettino, Brazilian footballer Religion *Raphael (archangel), an archangel in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam *Raphael I of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1475 to 1476 *Raphael II of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1603 to 1607 *Raphael of Brooklyn (1860–1915), saint in the Christian Orthodox tradition *Raphael I Bidawid, patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church in 1989–2003 O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Greaves (photographer)
Richard Greaves may refer to: * Richard L. Greaves (1938–2004), American historian * Richard Methuen Greaves (1852–1942), Welsh landowner * Richard Greaves (1853-1916), Australian gold prospector {{human name disambiguation, name=Greaves, Richard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugène Gabritschevsky
Eugène (or Eugen) Gabritschevsky (December 1893 – April 5, 1979) was a Russian biologist and artist. He was born into a comfortable family of scientists from Imperial Russia. His father was a renowned bacteriologist, and worked with Louis Pasteur in France and with Robert Koch in Germany. Gabritschevsky studied biology at the University of Moscow from 1913, specialising in problems related to heredity. He finished his studies successfully and went into research. In 1925, he was invited to the Columbia University in the United States, where he continued his work for two years, and in 1927, he settled in Paris, where he continued his research at the Pasteur Institute. By the age of thirty-three, he was well known in his field, and was world-renowned for his knowledge on the laws of mutation in the lives of insects. He was committed to Haar-Eflingen psychiatric hospital in 1931 and diagnosed with schizophrenia. He spent the remainder of his life in the hospital. In the ensuing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konstantin Bokov
Konstantin Bokov (born 1940 in Shostka, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian born American artist who creates mixed media assemblages, sculptures, and paintings while most often employing found materials and objects. Biography He is the son of the poet and songwriter Viktor Bokov (1914-2009). He initially studied music at the Art Academy of Leningrad in what is now once.again Saint Petersburg, Russia but soon fell under the spell of the canvases of sunsets by Vincent van Gogh and decided that he wanted to paint. Bokov immigrated the United States in 1975 with his wife and son. He is represented by the Van Den Plas gallery in New York City and also installs works on his own initiative at various locations in his home neighborhood of Washington Heights. Sometimes considered an outsider artist, Bokov has exhibited at European Outsider Art Fair in Vienna and the Outsider Art Fair in New York City. Bokov's work has been exhibited at the Now Gallery alongside that of Keith Haring and Jean-Miche ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morton Bartlett
Morton Bartlett (1909 in Chicago – 1992 in Boston) was an American freelance photographer and graphic designer who, from 1936 to 1963, devoted much of his spare time to creating and photographing a series of intricately carved lifelike plaster dolls. He never formally exhibited his work, though a small circle of friends and acquaintances was aware of its existence. Only upon his death in 1992, when the contents of his estate were purchased by New York art and antiques dealer Marion Harris, did his artistic creations become more widely known to the general public. After cataloguing all the sculptures and photographs, and publishing FAMILY FOUND - The Lifetime Obsession of Morton Bartlett, Marion Harris exhibited the work, organized exhibits and placed his work in museums including The Metropolitan Museum in New York. Life Morton Bartlett was born on 20 January 1909 in Chicago, Illinois and orphaned at the age of 8. He was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Warren Goddard Bartlett, a weal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beverly Baker
Beverly Baker Fleitz (March 13, 1930 – April 29, 2014) was a women's tennis player from the United States who was active in the late 1940s and during the 1950s. According to John Olliff and Lance Tingay of ''The Daily Telegraph'' and the ''Daily Mail'', Fleitz was ranked in the world top 10 in 1951, 1954, 1955, 1958, and 1959, reaching a career high of World No. 3 in those rankings in 1954, 1955, and 1958. Fleitz was included in the year-end top 10 rankings issued by the United States Tennis Association, United States Lawn Tennis Association from 1948 through 1951 and in 1954, 1955, 1958, and 1959. She was the top-ranked U.S. player in 1959. She was ambidextrous and played with two forehands. Career Fleitz began playing tennis at age 11 and played mostly on public courts in Lincoln Park in Santa Monica, California. Her father Frank Baker was her only coach and was the assistant director of recreation for the city of Santa Monica. During 11 of the 12 weeks following June 19, 195 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vahakn Arslanian
Vahagn is a god in Armenian mythology. Vahagn may also refer to: * Vahagn (name), an Armenian male given name *''Invocations to Vahakn'', Op. 54, no. 1 (1945), a composition for piano and percussion by the American composer Alan Hovhaness Alan Hovhaness (; March 8, 1911 – June 21, 2000) was an American- Armenian composer. He was one of the most prolific 20th-century composers, with his official catalog comprising 67 numbered symphonies (surviving manuscripts indicate over 70) a ... *Symphony No. 10, " Vahaken," Op. 184 (1944, rev. 1965), by Alan Hovhaness {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Arning
Eddie Arning (1898–1993) was an American artist. He was born in the farming community of Germania, Texas. As a young adult, he was admitted into a Texas mental institution for violent acts. In 1964, after 60 years in the institution, he was introduced to crayons by Helen Mayfield, an Austin artist who worked in the hospital that summer, and began coloring. After a few years of using crayons, Arning switched to oil pastels and began producing more complex compositions. His early works were autobiographical and depict scenes from his childhood with animals, flowers, windmills and churches. Later, Arning became inspired by newspapers, advertisements and magazine illustrations and was producing more graphic images. Over ten years, Arning produced over 2000 drawings. His work has been likened to styles in avant-garde twentieth-century art. Arning stopped drawing suddenly in 1973 when he was forced to leave his home because of "bad conduct." Arning is represented in numerous mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugene Andolsek
Eugene Andolsek (1921 – November 17, 2008) was an American artistic draughtsman. He is considered an outsider artist. Life Eugene Andolsek was born in Adrian, West Virginia, United States. He grew up with his mother's homemade quilts and crochet pieces which became a principal influence for his later drawings. In 1953, Andolsek became a stenographer for the Rock Island Railroad. Work In 1950, Andolsek began producing drawings based on grids. He spent almost every evening for the next fifty years drawing intricately patterned pieces, using basic drawing instruments and graph paper, as a means of diverting his thoughts from worrying about work. He was soon creating abstract compositions of remarkable geometric and chromatic complexity and produced several thousand kaleidoscopic designs. His creative work ended in 2003 as a result of deteriorated eyesight. Mental health After being made redundant, Andolsek developed an irreversible eye disorder and became almost blind, provoking h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
