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Further Adventures of the Vivian Girls in Chicago John MacGregor discusses a distrurbingly violent sequel to the Realms, begun by Darger around 1939.
The Moral Storm: Henry Darger's Book of Weather Reports Lytle Shaw examines Darger's weather diaries and their relation to his work and to Christian painting and practice.
Realms of the Unreal: The Imaginary World of Henry Darger Deborah Markus discusses Darger, Edith Wharton and the Brontë sisters in the June 2002 issue of "The Spook." The Gap adds containing photos of half-naked women provide an interesting counterpoint.
Lives and Art: John Ashbery and Henry Darger Michael Leddy discusses Darger and John Ashbery, the poet.
Henry Darger: Outsider Artist ... Song-Poet? Phil Milstein, curator of the American Song-Poem Music Archives, presents evidence that Darger may have submitted a composition to a "song-poem" company in 1921.
Henry J. Darger: The Homer of the Mad In a very early article (1980), Joseph Jablonski contends that Darger was a "naive surrealist."
Henry Darger Moves Out Read about the dismantling and reinstallation of Darger's room -- and that Nathan Lerner invented the bear-shaped honey container.
Thank Heaven for Little Girls Richard Vine's 1998 piece from Art in America may be the most comprehensive online article about Darger.
Thoughts on the Question: Why Darger? In this article from The Outsider, Darger scholar John M. MacGregor muses about why he has spent ten years studying Darger, as well as whether or not Darger was a child murderer.
A Life of Bizarre Obsession Art critic Robert Hughes discusses Darger's place in the canon and argues that Darger was not a child murderer.
The Selling of Henry Darger Stewart Allen examines the fate of Henry Darger's work in the academic and commercial realms, focusing on feuding art critics and the planned Hollywood depiction of Darger's life.
Sara Ayers: Henry Darger Page A Darger page as old as this one, with links and graphics.
Henry Darger: In the Realms of the Unreal (in Japanese) Kato Ikumi's homepage for the Japanese translation of John Macgregor's book contains a wealth of information on Darger and his work.
Shakan (in French) La Collection d'Art Brut online provides a huge selection of outsider art; the Henry Darger section includes a brief biography and some nice scans.
Grayson Perry is a potter and the winner of the 2003 Turner Prize. He cites Henry Darger as an influence.
In 2003 and 2004, the Ridge Theater in Chicago presented Mac Wellman's play inspired by the life and work of Darger, "Jennie Richie -- or Eating Jalooka Fruit Before It's Ripe."
Sissyfight Partially inspired by Darger's story, Sissyfight is an online game decribed as "an intense war between a bunch of girls who are all out to ruin each other's popularity and self-esteem. The object is to physically attack and majorly dis your enemies until they are totally mortified beyond belief." Totally.
View painter Paula Rego's take on the Vivian Girls.
Girls on the Run and Dream Sequence An untitled selection from a 21 part poem by John Ashbery inspired by the work of Henry Darger and published in the journal Lingo.
Henry Darger: Desperate and Terrible Questions Bill Swislow discusses John MacGregor's latest book and specifically, how Macgregor's psychological speculation overwhelms the book's better analyses of the artwork.
Art out of mind A 2003 review of MacGregor's second book and two others concerning outsider art.
In Japan Today John McGee reviews the 2002-2003 Darger show at the Watari-Um Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo. Like the Japanese version of the first MacGregor book, this exhibit seems to have contained many of Darger's more graphically violent works.
Gavin McNett reviews the new John MacGregor book in Salon.
The Outsiders A defense of John MacGregor and a review of his new book from the Village Voice.
Henry Darger, maître de l'art brut (In French) Abstract of a review of the two exhibits at the American Museum of Folk Art from Le Monde. (You must pay, in Euros, to read the entire review.)
Artifact: Outside In In a review of the new wing of the Museum of Folk Art, Charles Freund of the libertarian Reason complains that outsider art is a "pose" and a "study in the collapse of tastemaking." I have a trash can that came with a Norman Rockwell print pasted on the outside; maybe he'd like it.
Rescuing Henry Darger In an excellent review of the Michael Bonesteel book, Bill Swislow of Interesting Ideas writes that Bonesteel rescues Darger "from his most obvious appeal -- weirdness."
Artscope Magazine Review Katherine Rook Lieber gives a laudatory review to the Bonesteel book.
Heroine Addiction Another review of the Bonesteel book -- from the Village Voice.
Read a review of the 2001 P.S. 1 "Disasters of War" exhibit from Artnet
Everyone Except Darger Escapes with Booty: Henry Darger at Carl Hammer A downright hostile review of this exhibit and of outsider art by Adam Mikos, who writes that Darger's "mutilated characters and visual attention to pedophillia are degenerate. And yet, it titillates higher class people, currently to tune of 15,000 dollars." The clever title is a caption from a Darger painting.
Henry Darger: Realms of the Unreal G. Jurek Polanski reviews the October-November 2000 Darger exhibit at the Hammer Gallery for Artscope Magazine.
Ginza Art Space Show (in Japanese) This page from the Shiseido cosmetics company publicizes a Darger Show held in Tokyo in 1997. Includes a chronology of Darger's life.
The Unrequited Henry Darger E. Tage Larsen reviews the 1996-1998 "Unreality of Being" show in this often cited article. There is a revised version of this review here.
Thank Heaven for Little Girls: The lubricious fantasies of Henry Darger In a fine review of the "Unreality of Being" show, Larissa MacFarquhar discusses JonBenet Ramsey and how "outsider artists tend to attract a particularly crude and irritating kind of psycho-biographical analysis."
Art Brut Connaissance & Diffusion A French foundation "whose main objective is to research, study and make known Art Brut by means of exhibitions, publications and audio visual productions." Their website is very comprehensive and includes a fine section on Darger.
For the Love of Creativity: The Passionate Pursuit of Self-Taught Artists Collector Barry M. Cohen discusses Outsider Art, Folk Art, and just plain bad art on the NEA Web site.
American Visionary Art Museum homepage
Interesting Ideas: The Outsider Pages
INTUIT:The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
"What is Outsider Art?" from Raw Vision Magazine