Earlier this week, Darger's estate filed a lawsuit in Chicago's federal court accusing his one-time landlords of copyright infringement.
In light of a recent legal dispute over outsider artist Henry Darger's estate, A.i.A. revisits a 1985 essay on the three Chicago Outsider artists Henry Darger, Lee Godie, and Joseph Yoakum.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Ever since the work of the now legendary Chicago-based outsider artist and writer Henry Darger came to light in 1977, four years after his death at age 81, there has been wild art world speculation…
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…
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 sel…