The last year and a half may have incubated a new generation of ‘self-taught’ artists
How, if at all, will museums address this?
Next week, Atlanta’s High Museum of Art will open “Gatecrashers: The Rise of the Self-Taught Artist in America.” Two weeks later, it will debut “Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe.” The museum had announced in April a gift of 47 works and a promised bequest from Atlanta collectors Harvie and Charles “Chuck” Abney, which would expand its “un…