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11 Innovations That Changed History From pioneering inventions to bold scientific and medical advancements, find out more about 11 innovations that changed the course of human history. Author: DNY59/Getty Images From pioneering inventions to bold scientific and medical advancements, find out more about 11 innovations that changed the course of human history. 1. The Printing Press Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group/Getty Images Prior to the rise of the Internet, no innovation did more for the spread and democratization of knowledge than Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press. Deve...

Installation view of Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning On view at Shin Gallery, curated by Scott Ogden as part of the Outsider Art Fair 2021 Photo: Olya Vysotskaya A trickle of intrepid visitors made their way through the various venues of the Outsider Art Fair in New York on its VIP preview day yesterday. In addition to online viewing rooms, this year’s edition of the cult fair is taking place across four galleries in Manhattan, as well as the legendary Electric Lady recording studio, with two solo exhibitions and five broadly themed group exhibitions. “It would h...

The 29th Outsider Art Fair Now Open In Four NYC Galleries And Electric Lady Studios View all 35 Art fair season is upon us once again, but like everything else in the pandemic era, it's all going to be very different this time around. Starting things off is the Outsider Art Fair, which for nearly 30 years has been one of the world's preeminent showcases of self-taught artists, which basically just means anyone who makes art without any formal education, without following any particular movement or set of rules, and often without any financial motive or presumption that their...

Outsider Art Fair, Smaller This Year, but a Model for the Future A scaled-back lineup includes Daniel Johnston’s colorfully nightmarish drawings, plus chunky clay cameras and quilts as abstract as anything in the MoMA. At Electric Lady Studios, in New York City, an installation view of drawings by Daniel Johnston, the rock star and artist who died in 2019.Credit...Olya Vysotskaya By Will Heinrich Jan. 28, 2021 This year’s Outsider Art Fair is a stripped-down and deconstructed one, just seven curated shows spread across four Manhattan galleries and one famous recording studio. (There are a...

By Sam Kemmis, Elina Geller and Sally French The travel world as we knew it won’t be back for some time and credit card issuers had to zig and zag their way through 2020 to bring value to customers in the new normal. We saw things like the addition of Peloton  ( PTON) - Get Report partnerships, travel credits used at grocery stores, discounted streaming services and even credit statements for Dell  ( Why stop there? As travel hopes to slowly rebound in 2021, credit card companies would be smart to continue to find new ways to improve the value of their travel cards. With that said, as Ne...