Paris is the centre of Henry Darger-related activity at the moment – this event on Monday live from the MAM in Paris, in partnership with the Intuit Center of Chicago

First impressions: The opening chapters of Xavier Mauméjean’s French-language biography ‘Henry Darger: Dans Les Royaumes de L’Irréel’ are compelling. Mauméjean’s love for Darger’s work is self-evident, and his approach thoughtful and evocative. Mauméjean draws on a wide range of writings including Darger’s autobiography, diary, and documents like ‘Predictions and Threats‘, rather than focusing exclusively on ‘In the Realms…

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…

‘Chicago Calling’– virtual version of the beautifully mounted exhibit at the Collection de L’Art Brut in Lausanne, Switzerland, which features self-taught Chicago artists Lee Godie, Mr. Imagination, Pauline Simon, Wesley Willis and Joseph E. Yoakum and… At its core, there’s this stunning display of outstanding works by Henry Darger from the CAB Collection– together with…

Revolutions of the Night: The Enigma of Henry Darger– short version, French subtitles– forms part of Chicago Calling, an exhibition reflecting the city’s fascinating relationship with Art Brut and Outsider Art. Darger works from the fantastic CAB collection and from Intuit, as well as other self-taught Chicago artists Lee Godie, Mr. Imagination, Pauline Simon, Wesley…

‘Revolutions of the Night: The Enigma of Henry Darger’ aka ‘La Révolution la Nuit: L’Énigme de Henry Darger’ will be playing at the ‘Les Rencontres du film d’art’ festival in St Gaudens, France in Januaryhttp://www.lesrencontresdufilmdart.com/

Stunning DCPs of Revolutions of the Night have been created by CINEMONA at MONA Australia and have taken the film visually to another level. And title-free versions will help us create foreign language versions of the doc. A huge thank you CINEMONA for their incredible support!

Two collages by artist/ illustrator John Coulthart created from stills from the documentary I directed about the American artist Joseph Cornell. The original post is here: http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2012/12/03/joseph-cornell-worlds-in-a-box/ — part of Coulthart’s ongoing journal ‘cataloguing interests, obsessions’ — including Lovecraft, Salomé, Burroughs– where he unearths many unexpected connections.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/mar/25/scott-walker-experimental-pop-hero-dies-aged-76