The works of self-taught artist Henry Darger are the definition of that slightly condescending critical category known as the "interesting." You look at his phantasmagoric paintings, of naked ...

A room in Henry Darger's Chicago apartment as it appeared shortly before his death in 1973 Via court documents The couple worked with the Hyde Park Art Center to mount Darger’s first exhibition ...

Boy King Islands. One is a young Tuskerhorian the other a human headed Dortherean, undated, Watercolour, pencil, and cut-and-pasted printed paper on paper, The Museum of Modern Art, New York The ...

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With a landmark renovation, the Intuit in West Town has also rebranded to eliminate the divisive “outsider art” terminology.

Henry Darger is one of the most famous outsider artists in the world. But no one knew about his art while he was alive. Why he kept it a secret is a mystery but we’re going to try and find out ...

They say he created his own dream world, and then moved into it. Bonesteel, an art magazine editor who published "Henry Darger: Art and Selected Writings," in 2000, sees Darger as an innocent - an ...

A legal battle over the valuable estate of Outsider art star Henry Darger looks to be heating up in Chicago, and the stakes are high. In recent years, a group of about 50 distant family members ...

Now relatives are challenging that stewardship in court. By Robin Pogrebin When the janitor-turned-artist Henry Darger died in Chicago at 81 in 1973, leaving a single room crammed with his ...

Donation Options Search Search Search A re-creation of the one-room apartment of reclusive artist Henry Darger at Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art. AP file Share The work of ...