brutjournal’s founder and editor in chief, the art critic, art historian, and curator Edward M. Gómez, sets the scene and the agenda for the new magazine, describing its thematic scope and the ideas and interests that inspired him and a group of collaborators to create a new publication focusing on, as its masthead announces, “outsider art, art brut, the unclassifiable, and the avant-avant-garde.” (What the heck is “the avant-avant-garde”?) As Edward explains, as much as we’ll be examining new, experimental, and innovative ways of making, showing, and living with art, we’ll also be looking at how various aspects of already familiar art forms and of everyday life can still be seen as radically inventive, depending on how you regard and appreciate them. Read his introduction here.