At the MONA cinema in Australia: Henry Darger meets Sun Ra (Sun Ra: Space is the Place, 1974)– distant planets explored via Chicago.
Category: Posthumous Life
REVOLUTIONS OF THE NIGHT: THE ENIGMA OF HENRY DARGER Musings on the Film, by David L Downing, PsyD, ABPP
Revolutions of the Night: The Enigma of Henry Darger, is a documentary that, in its elegant compositional structure, evokes the world of the film’s subject: the ‘outsider’ artist, with a history of psychiatric institutionalisations, who lived ‘out’ his entire life, literally, on the ‘outside of’ the everyday, taken-for-granted world of lived-experience that most of us…
The Lights of the City
The recent exhibition ‘Nathan Lerner: The heritage of the Bauhaus in Chicago’ at the Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme in Paris was the first French retrospective of the artist, designer and photographer. The links between the two continents, Europe and America, implied in the exhibition’s title, were constants throughout Lerner’s life and work. The…
Henry Darger Documentary 