Outsider art is the name given to work made in places such as asylums and prisons by artists who have not been to art school.

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At a recent conference on the future of the arts in a digital world the opening night panel was asked to name a digital art work that had impressed them.

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Christie's won't name the seller, a Japanese conglomerate that bought the work at the height of the 1980s art bubble and must now, because of financial pressure, get rid of it.

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Christie's won't name the seller, a Japanese industrial conglomerate that bought the work at the height of the 1980s art bubble and must now, because of financial pressure, get rid of it.

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Occasionally, too, an individual comes along to commission an important work of art or architecture like Planar House designed by the Stephen Holl (who is, however, already a name in architecture, thus less an investment risk).

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