Christie’s Folk Art Sale Includes Hamilton Bust, Late Henry Darger Painting
Christie’s will hold its sale of Important American Furniture, Outsider and Folk Art on September 24, at Rockefeller Center in New York. Among the 117 lots are 25 selections from Credit Suisse’s...
View ArticleThe Error of Margins: Vernacular Artists and the Mainstream Art World
Earlier this year Jasmin Tsou, proprietor of the downtown Manhattan gallery JTT, bought an Artforum magazine subscription for Marlon Mullen, an artist who had recently joined her stable. The magazine...
View ArticleRed Light District: American Folk Art Museum Celebrates Brutality at Downtown...
The downtown bar Madame X advertises itself on its website as the “Sexiest Bar in New York City.” I am in no way qualified to comment on whether that claim has any basis in fact, even after attending...
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Andrew Edlin
Dealer Andrew Edlin is settling in at the former Bellwether space on Tenth Avenue, where he moved his gallery in 2009 from West 20th Street. A New York native, Edlin is an enthusiastic champion of...
View ArticleMoMA Gets Last Works from Darger Estate
New York’s Museum of Modern Art has acquired 13 double-sided drawings by Henry Darger, arguably the most well-known Outsider artist. Darger, a janitor who spent most of his life in the same Chicago...
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Outing Darger
Jim Elledge, Henry Darger, Throwaway Boy: The Tragic Life of an Outsider ArtistNew York, Overlook Press, 2013; 396 pages, $29.95. Ever since the work of the now legendary Chicago-based outsider...
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Paul Chan at Schaulager
Paul Chan, 3rd Light, 2006, digital video projection and table, 14'. TOM BISIG/©PAUL CHAN/EMANUEL HOFFMANN FOUNDATION, GIFT OF THE PRESIDENT, 2010, ON PERMANENT LOAN TO THE ÖFFENTLICHE KUNSTSAMMLUNG,...
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Christie’s Folk Art Sale Includes Hamilton Bust, Late Henry Darger Painting
Henry Darger, Watch Where You Are Going Kid You’ll Run Smack Into Those Phanto Flowers, n.d. CHRISTIE’S IMAGES LTD. 2015 Christie’s will hold its sale of Important American Furniture, Outsider and Folk...
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The Error of Margins: Vernacular Artists and the Mainstream Art World
Marlon Mullen, Untitled, 2014. CHARLES BENTON/COURTESY THE ARTIST; JTT, NEW YORK; AND NIAD ART CENTER, RICHMOND, CALIFORNIAEarlier this year Jasmin Tsou, proprietor of the downtown Manhattan gallery...
View ArticleBand of Outsiders: Walking the Outsider Art Fair with Katherine Jentleson
The High Museum in Atlanta, where Katherine Jentleson is the curator of folk and self-taught art, has the Outsider Art Fair to thank for their new hire (she started in September). “I got into this by...
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Red Light District: American Folk Art Museum Celebrates Brutality at Downtown...
Still from Jennifer Reiland The Arena ARTIST The downtown bar Madame X advertises itself on its website as the “Sexiest Bar in New York City.” I am in no way qualified to comment on whether that claim...
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From the Archives: Chicago Originals
Reclusive artist Henry Darger died in 1973, leaving behind a Chicago apartment full of his work. In light of a recent legal dispute between the building’s landlords and the late artist’s relatives over...
View Article40 Years Ago, Henry Darger’s Landlords Discovered His Epic Art. A New Lawsuit...
The legal battle over the lucrative legacy of outsider artist Henry Darger has taken a new turn. A distant relative of the artist and the Estate of Henry Joseph Darger have filed a legal action...
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