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 ...

Artist Henry Darger lived in a rented room in a row home in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago for some 40 years, from 1932 to 1972. While there, unknown to his contemporaries, he created an ...

All new rehearsal photos have been released from the world premiere of Bughouse, conceived and directed by Martha Clarke. Check out the photos and learn more here!

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. The Lincoln Park home where Henry Darger lived for 40 ...

It’s fine that Michael Bonesteel is an enthusiastic supporter of the painter Henry Darger [“Secret Battles,” January 12]. Darger’s work is, initially at least, visually and emotionally compelling. But ...

“Dargerism: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger,” on view at the American Folk Art Museum through September 21, features works by 12 artists who have been inspired by Henry Darger (1892–1973), the ...

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🎧 Click the red listen button to take an audio tour of the Intuit Art Museum. Just in time for summer, Chicago’s home for so-called outsider art has reopened, following a multi-million-dollar ...

I.Exhibition Catalog, 1977. II.Autobiography. III.Diaries, 1968-1971. This collection contains an exhibition catalog entitled REALMS OF THE UNREAL - THE WORK OF HENRY DARGER (1977), two volumes of ...

For much of his life, Henry Darger was almost invisible. He was an odd man -- a reclusive janitor whose outside life revolved around going to church and monitoring the weather. But in death, Darger ...