3D Video Artist Wendy Vainity is the Henry Darger of the Internet
Still from Wendy Vainity’s “death’s dynamic shroud” on YouTubeDoes Wendy Vainity actually know what she’s doing? The 48-year-old native of Adelaide, Australia is one of the weirdest YouTube users I’ve...
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Martín Ramírez, “Untitled (Three VW Vans)” (c. 1948–1963), crayon and pencil on pieced paper, 22 7/8 x 30 in. (image via American Folk Art Museum)Last week my fellow Hyperallergic editor Kyle Chayka...
View ArticleOn Henry Darger’s 15,000-Page Novel
Kevin Miller showing us a page in one of the “Oz” books that was found in Henry Darger’s apartment after he died (photo by the author for Hyperallergic)Although he traced and painted and wrote in...
View ArticleGoing Inside: Outsider Art Fair 2014
Henry Boxer Gallery’s booth at Outsider Art Fair, with George Widener, “Titanic” (2014) in center (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic)After this year’s Outsider Art Fair, a Frieze Week...
View ArticleA Play for the Enigmatic Henry Darger
Detail from Henry Darger’s “The Story of the Vivian Girls” (photo by cometstarmoon/Flickr)An independent theater in Chicago is adapting Henry Darger’s life into a play. The effort, currently accepting...
View ArticleThe Radical Ambiguity of Henry Darger
Henry Darger, “At McCalls Run Coller Junction Vivian girl saves strangling children from phenomenon of frightful shape” (1910–1970), crayon, encre, aquarelle, and collage on paper (© Eric Emo / Musée...
View ArticleBodies at War: ‘Soldier, Spectre, Shaman’ at MoMA
Louis Soutter, “Head” (1939), oil on paper, 25 5/8 x 19 3/4 inches, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gift of the artist (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) World War II signaled the death of...
View ArticleIn Switzerland, Art Brut Goes Back to Its Roots
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...
View ArticleToday Is Henry Darger Day in Chicago
Henry Darger, “Untitled” (mid 20th century), watercolor, pencil, carbon tracing, and collage on pierced paper, 24 x 106 1/2 in, Collection American Folk Art Museum, New York, museum purchase with funds...
View ArticleThe Sexual Ambiguity of Henry Darger’s Vivian Girls
Henry Darger, Annabelle Aronberg Vivian, circa 1940s, mixed media on paper, 35 1/2 x 31 1/2 inches, framed (Collection of Robert A. Roth, photo courtesy of Robert A. Roth and Intuit) Often it’s a set...
View ArticleThe Visible Language of Outsider Art
Jean Fick, “AMBASADEUR MONDIEU N.23. A+L” (circa 1941-46), journal, 90 pages, ink, pencil, and watercolor on paper, 4 3/4 x 2 3/8 inches, collection abcd/Bruno Decharme (photo courtesy of Collection...
View ArticleA Gallery’s Eight Decades of Artistic Independence
Artist Grandma Moses and Galerie St. Etienne founder Otto Kallir on the front porch of the painter’s house in Eagle Bridge, New York (1944) (photo © Grandma Moses Properties Co., New York, all images...
View ArticleA Peek Into Some of the Best Art Books of 2019
Just before she disappeared down the rabbit hole, Alice in Wonderland said that a book, to be useful, must consist of pictures and conversations. This presentation of some of the best art books of the...
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