The Outsider Art Fair Opens its 30th Anniversary Edition in NYC

From 3-6 March, the 30th anniversary edition of the Outsider Art Fair welcomes guests to Manhattan’s Metropolitan Pavilion. There, an astounding array of international exhibitors present art brut as well as the work of self-taught artists. Once again, the fair demonstrates that it is unlike any other, through the range of complex artistry on hand to the powerful programming in its Curated Spaces sector (which …

Juha Tanhua’s Photography Turns Parking Lot Oil Spills Into Galaxies

Finnish photographer Juha Tanhua noticed an oil spill by his car that reminded him of the Northern Lights. He captured it, then forgot about it. When he rediscovered the image in his archive, he began to seek out and photograph more leaks around parking lots after heavy rain. Tanhua soon amassed a collection—which he refers to as “oil paintings,” since they are quite literally artworks …

Abolishing The Fat Villain Stereotype in Pop Culture

From Jabba The Hutt to Harry Potter’s uncle Vernon, fat villains permeate pop culture, sustaining real-life biases that demean and dismiss fat people. It’s a trope that, Sarah Stark writes for Inverse, needs to be abolished. While making fat people out to be lacking morals or inherently bad (a fat body symbolizes “evidence of sin,” according to Canadian sociologist Fiona Whittington-Walsh), the entertainment industry’s reliance …