Little Walt Dog, a self-taught artist from Compton, California, discovered the therapeutic, communicative power of art during the long period of time he served in federal prisons. Now re-establishing himself in Compton, he has moved on and has dedicated his life to making art. His paintings of cars, highways, and everyday scenes from his surroundings celebrate his appreciation of personal freedom and a spirit of fellowship with his community. Ruffed Grouse Gallery will show them at this year’s Outsider Art Fair. Free-access article.

Admirers of art brut and outsider art are used to seeing works made with such conventional materials as ink, colored pencils, or paint on paper, cardboard, or found scraps of wood. However, the self-taught Scottish artist Pinkie Maclure is a master of stained glass, a technique that is rarely encountered in the outsider art field. In her work, she takes the pulse of our times and illuminates — literally — such subjects as insomnia, drug addiction, and humanity’s destructive relationship with nature. At the 2025 Outsider Art Fair, the dealer Marion Harris will present Maclure’s luminous confections. See our photo-filled report. Free-access article.

brutjournal’s coverage of the 2025 Outsider Art Fair New York begins with a look at a group of rare, early-career paintings by the emblematic, American self-taught artist Mose Tolliver (1919-2006), which will be available from Ruffed Grouse Gallery, a small venue based in Narrowsburg, New York. Culled from the holdings of private collectors who acquired the pictures from Tolliver’s home studio in the 1970s, these works represent some of the most sought-after productions that emerged during a formative period of the artist’s career. Free-access article.

The Collection de l'Art Brut in Lausanne, Switzerland, has organized a knock-out exhibition of emblematic works from its vast holdings for the Museo delle Culture (popularly known as “Mudec”) in Milan. See our photo-filled report about “Dubuffet e l’art brut” (“Dubuffet and Art Brut”), which features paintings, drawings, mixed-media objects, and much more by such emblematic art brut creators as Adolf Wölfli, Aloïse Corbaz, Fleury-Joseph Crépin, Gaston Dufour, Laure Pigeon, Madge Gill, Guillaume Pujolle, Guo Fengyi, and Johann Hauser, and by such Italian autodidacts as Giovanni Bosco, Giovanni Battista Podestà, Carlo Zinelli, Angelo Meani, and Antonio Dalla Valle. Free-access artcle. Avanti!

Recently, in England, brutjournal’s London-based artist-correspondent, Cathy Ward, shared with us one of the stranger treasures from her collection of unusual artworks and antiques. A small, undated painting whose creator remains anonymous, its curious character and imagery somehow feel just right for these uncertain times. Here, we take a close look at this odd picture, savoring its strangeness. Free-access article.