Art Brut recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of their debut single, “Formed a Band,” and they’re getting ready to look back on two decades of witty, shouty observational songs with two ...

Karl Vondal, “Couple Under Palm Trees” (2013), pencil, colored pencil, and collage on paper, 4.1 x 5.8 inches, Private Foundation: Artists from Gugging (all photos courtesy of Museum Gugging) ...

It takes no stretch of the imagination to believe that Art Brut frontman Eddie Argos might be of the slightly nerdy persuasion; just listen to an Art Brut record and you'll probably come up with the ...

Last month saw the indie veterans announce the compilation album ‘A Record Collection, Reduced To A Mixtape’ and the five-CD box set ‘Yes, This Is My Singing Voice!’. “A nice landmark,” Argos told NME ...

Jean Dubuffet, Michel Thévoz and the artist Slavko Kopac (a collaborator with the Compagnie de l’Art Brut) at the Collection de l’Art Brut in Lausanne, Switzerland, on the eve of the new museum’s ...

You have to hand it to Art Brut. Even those of us who loved that first album thought the gleefully sardonic British bashers were good for just one album of riffs and jokes, that their slapdash energy ...

"We're pretty persistent," Eddie Argos told us of his band's secret to longevity. "I think we'd still be going now even if no-one had bought any of our records." Thankfully, it hasn't quite come to ...

The notion of artists with no formal training creating incredible pieces of artwork has been an important part of various cultures around the globe for centuries, but it wouldn’t be until the 1940s ...

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French artist Jean Dubuffet introduced the world to Art Brut, a predecessor of contemporary “outsider” art. He debuted Coucou Bazar, an “animated painting,” at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in ...