Loy Allen Bowlin was known for his shuffle-step dancing, jokes and off-key singing. He was, of course, most well known as the "Rhinestone Cowboy" for his artistic rhinestone creations,... »

Outsider Architecture | Edited by Dylan and Henry

Why build it? According to him 'Because he can'... or at least could. The Sutyagin house was a wooden house in Arkhangelsk, Russia. The 13-story, 144-ft tall residence of a local entrepreneur... »

Outsider Architecture | Edited by jamesb and Dylan

One of two self-built castles in Hungary (the other is the much more ramshackle Tarodi Var), Bory Castle was the work of Hungarian sculptor and architect Jeno Bory. Bory built the castle between... »

Architectural Oddities, Eccentric Homes, Outsider Architecture | Edited by Dylan and Henry

Located a minute's walk from Argentina's national legislature, at the end of Buenos Aires' Avenida de Mayo, the Palacio Barolo, once South America's tallest building, still towers above the... »

Commercial Curiosities, Outsider Architecture, Repositories of Knowledge | Edited by , Dylan and others

After a dispute with the government over construction of his spherical house in central Vienna, the Austrian artist Edwin Lipburger declared his property an independent nation in 1984 and renamed... »

Micro-Nations, Outsider Architecture | Edited by Dylan and Josh

There are many motivations to create one's own castle. Divine inspiration, as a way of cheating death, as a monument to human ability, or simply a compulsive inability to stop building. However... »

Architectural Oddities, Outsider Architecture | Edited by Dylan and ack sed

At one point in the late 1950s, during an extended and fever-ridden illness, Eddie Owens Martin experienced the first of a series of phenomenal visions that would drive his artistic efforts for... »

Museums and Collections, Outsider Art, Architectural Oddities, Eccentric Homes, Outsider Architecture | Edited by wythe

John Preble, a Louisiana painter, has picked up just about every rock, bottle, and license plate he has passed. Inspired by the Tinkertown Museum in New Mexico, he put it all together in the Abita... »

Outsider Art, Hunting and Taxidermy, Outsider Architecture | Edited by M Rebekah Otto, michelle and others

Set in Joshua Tree, California, Noah Purifoy's "Outdoor Desert Art Museum" is 7.5 acres of open land displaying Purifoy's assemblage sculptures, all created on-site between 1989 and 2004. Visitors... »

Outsider Art, Outsider Architecture | Edited by anhie, Sue Welsh and others

"Visionary art as defined for the purposes of the American Visionary Art Museum refers to art produced by self-taught individuals, usually without formal training, whose works arise from innate... »

Outsider Art, Outsider Architecture | Edited by Dylan, Henry and others