Frank Browning: Hey! Wow! American "Outsiders" Make It in Paris

Outsider Art was born in London, at least officially, in 1972 when the critic Roger Cardinal characterized the movement labeled by French artist Jean Dubuffet as art brut: art generated "outside" traditional circles, often by self-trained artists and sculptors snubbed and snickered at by uptown galleries and museums. The problem is that it's hard to stay an outsider once you've been discovered by the market. A current show including of the Pop-Bizarre, including 25 Americans, at the Halle St. Pi...