11.   Museums dedicated to outsider art have opened in Baltimore and the Netherlands.

12.   Outsider art continues to upstage American folk art in gallery and museum exhibitions as well as in the press.

13.   Outsider art is flourishing because the art establishment have become the true outsiders of our day.

14.   Paradoxically, the brouhaha over Bottle Village comes just as outsider art is attracting critical attention.

15.   Some of the work hews to familiar folk art and outsider art conventions.

16.   Some of them are ad hoc forms of urban outsider art, like the mosaics on the lampposts around Tompkins Square Park.

17.   Taken as a whole, these viewing opportunities approach total immersion in the expanding world of outsider art, past and present, American and European.

18.   That experience may have contributed to his involvement with outsider art and his efforts to spend time with the artists he collects.

19.   That is not to say that outsider art is without masters.

20.   The importance of outsider art has also been proclaimed by Congress.