Artist Henry Darger lived in a rented room in a row home in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago for some 40 years, from 1932 to 1972. While there, unknown to his contemporaries, he created an ...

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“There’s no getting around it,” one exhibitor said. “More people will see a work at a fair in three or four days than will come into your gallery in 10 years.” By Ted Loos Distant relatives are ...

For much of his life, Henry Darger was almost invisible. He was an odd man -- a reclusive janitor whose outside life revolved around going to church and monitoring the weather. But in death, Darger ...

What do we want from Henry Darger? Born in Chicago a century and a decade ago this month, the consummate outsider artist and writer is the subject of a monumental new book by his posthumous Boswell ...

“Andrew Edlin Gallery is pleased to present Henry Darger, its third solo exhibition of the renowned self-taught artist’s work. The show, comprised of approximately two dozen works taken from the ...

The fascination of artists with the work of Henry Darger is easy to understand. Not only do his images beg to be psychoanalyzed, but, like any so-called “outsider” artist, Darger seems to represent ...

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“Dargerism: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger,” on view at the American Folk Art Museum through September 21, features works by 12 artists who have been inspired by Henry Darger (1892–1973), the ...

If you find yourself asking who the Vivian Girls are, prepare to be answered on two fronts. In the literary/esoterica world, the Vivian Girls are heroines who lead a child slave rebellion in a ...

Distant relatives are seeking to gain control of the outsider artist’s estate from a former landlord, who says that Darger gave the art and literary works he created to her husband. By Robin Pogrebin ...

"Dargerism: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger," Apr. 15-Sept. 21, 2008, at the American Folk Art Museum, 45 West 53rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10019 What’s so fascinating about Henry Darger? More ...