Michael Boruch was a Photography professor, and I was able to film with him in his lab while he showed us his original negatives, describing how, as a student in the 70s, he made a photographic record of Henry Darger’s room on Webster Ave., Chicago.  As one of the core group of Chicago art students who visited the…

François Gorin talks about his book “Scott Walker: chronicle of an obsession” which traces his evolving fascination with the amazing work of the singer and songwriter. Saturday, October 5, 2024 at 3 pm at the Violette Leduc Media Library 18 rue Faidherbe, Paris 11th, where a display from Gorin’s collection of Walker records and ephemera runs until October 19th. https://www.paris.fr/evenements/rencontre-avec-francois-gorin-scott-walker-une-obsession-64521…

There’s a fascinating Darger event taking place at the Trinkhall Museum from April 24-26, 2024 at Trinkhall Museum in Liège, Belgium, featuring Xavier Mauméjean author of the biography ‘Henry Darger: Dans Les Royaumes de L’Irréel’, and translator Anne-Sylvie Homassel (who translated our documentary ‘Revolutions of the Night: The Enigma of Henry Darger’). Mauméjean’s biography –…

The Father John Misty sings Scott Walker with Jules Buckley and the BBC Symphony Orchestra performance at the Barbican Centre last Friday was outstanding. Highlights feature on BBC Radio 6 on Amy Lamé tonight from 9pm BST, May 25. Some links and reviews below… https://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/extra/PXN1rMZMWS/BBC-Symphony-Orchestra-19-May-2023 https://theartsdesk.com/new-music/father-john-misty-sings-scott-walker-barbican-review-edging-towards-supernatural

Scott Walker, born Noel Scott Engel 80 years ago – what an incredible musical legacy. ‘There is so much that could be written about the unusual career of Scott Walker: from his unforgettable singing voice to his role of in introducing the work of Jacques Brel to an English-speaking audience, the ever proliferating number of artists…

Screening of Cindy Sherman – Nobody’s Here But Me at the Photographers Gallery, London at 6:30pm, Fri 13 May 2022 https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/arena-screening-cindy-sherman-nobodys-here-me

Paris has long been a centre for Henry Darger activity, not least with the publication of Xavier Mauméjean’s insightful biography ‘Henry Darger: Dans Les Royaumes de L’Irréel’, and Philippe Cohen Solal’s outstanding ‘Outsider’ album, podcast series and events at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris. There’s more Darger-inspired activity this month, at Paris Fashion Week…

From ¡YA BASTA! Records: Last episode of the podcast series OUTSIDER, the amazing story of Henry Darger Mark Stokes is a filmmaker based in London whose documentary on Henry Darger, Revolutions of the Night, was instrumental in explaining who Henry Darger really was to a wider audience. In the final episode of this series, we…

Xavier Mauméjean’s French biography of Henry Darger, ‘Dans les royaumes de l’irréel’ or ‘In the Realms of the Unreal’ is excellent. It would be a mistake to see the book as only of interest to a French-speaking audience. Despite the title of the biography, with its focus on Darger’s epic fantasy, the ‘Realms’ – Mauméjean’s sources…

OUTSIDER is a seven-part podcast series about Henry Darger, his life, his art and his legacy. Musician Philippe Cohen Solal explores Darger’s work in conversation with scholars, artists and art curators. This is the teaser for the English version, following up on the French-language series of the same name.