Minnie Evans, Design Made at Airlie Gardens, 1967. Oil and mixed media on canvas on paperboard. Smithsonian American Art Museum, gift of the artist © The Estate of Minnie Evans

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Lately, there’s been a vogue for art made without the influence of the art school-gallery-museum industrial complex. These days, such art is usually referred to as “folk art” and “self-taught art,” but they used to call it “outsider art”—a term that wouldn’t work in an art world that now seeks to be as inclusive as possible. The new language also aligns more closely with what people like about........

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