Through the summer and early Autumn of 2004, the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Les Halles, Paris, dedicated its walls and floors to one of the biggest exhibitions of Raw Art (Outsider Art, L’Art Brut, or Art of the Margins, if you prefer) ever held in the French capital. The organisers claimed they were displaying the work of hundreds of Outsider Artists. [see FT147:40-44]. The exhibition was certainly impressive, taking in art by psychiatric patients, alcoholics, visionaries, sociopaths, loners, naifs, vagrants, street kids and hobos.

That said, it’s not hard to mount the ‘biggest ever’ exhibition of Outsider Art in Paris: there haven’t been many others, of any size.