Henry Darger

Live: Karen O's Stop The Virgens Is Pretty, Vacant

​Stop the Virgens St. Ann's Warehouse Wednesday, October 19 Better than: Your average mass fatality. There ought to be something lethal at the heart of a rock show, some hurts-so-good death drive that reminds you how glorious it is to live, to breathe, to dance. Karen O's "psycho rock opera ... More >>

Going Hollywood

From fly on the wall to cog in the machine

Vivian Girls+Times New Viking+Stupid Party

Class Action Listings

Dirty Blonde: Drinking at Five Leaves, and Drinking in the Melodic Wisdom of Tim Fite

Two new bars for the common man

XXY: Intersex Drama

Oh, the teenage trauma of gender assignment

Paul Chan: A Light in April

Consensus pick projects his influence at the New Museum of Contemporary Art

Women are from Mars; Men from Greece

In her quest to uncover modern day Greek drama, Jessica Yu finds that guys are tragic

Where the Mechanical Things Are

Recommendations by R.C. Baker

Broken Angel

A new exhibition rescues artist Martin Ramirez from his "Outsider" status

The Biggest Picture

A group show takes a trip through grand visions and imaginary universes

Knifed

Do the Collapse

More pompous but occasionally thrilling annihilation from the TOD boys

The Undead of Art History

A melancholic world of old soldiers, grande dames, torpid dandies, and tormented souls.

'Blood Tea and Red String'

Prolific Indie Darling Repeats Himself Splendidly

Heavy Metal

Interrogation Nation

Art that is like a detective report or a communiqué from a secret agent

Fashion Week: Clothes in the Time of Katrina

Capturing an Artist's Aura

Remote Patrol

Battling Children

A choreographer reviews her past; another re-creates an artist's imagined childhood world

The Realm of the Unreal

The bad seed: All bods and borgs, snazzy but derivative anime is a ghost of its predecessors

Take Five

The Imagined Universe of an Outsider Artist Par Excellence

Both Sides Now

In Paul Chan's apocalyptic landscape: Birds, suicide bombers, Pasolini, and Biggie Smalls

Critical Call

Assessing the new season: Highs, lows, kitsch, shtick, and one flamboyant failure

Termite Theory

The only way to chew through what some artists perceive as rot is with a lot of activity

Stone Reading

Unlike you, this teenager got her fantasy novel published

Faeries From Yon Philly Wood Revive Ye Olde Jousting Folke

Art

Open Me

Finding beautiful boys, bordello interiors, and worldwide Jews in the season's most intriguing coffee-table books

Word Salad

Compound Interest

Travis Jeppesen's Alien Nation

Primal Time

Ecstatic Shamanic Devices at the Folk Art Museum

House-to-House Sighting

Sarah Michelson's 'Shadowmann'; the Seán Curran Company; Mia Lawrence

Father's Day

Going Ape in Chelsea

Top Shelf

Our 25 Favorite Books of 2002

Good on Paper

Canvas Sneaker

Letters

Letters

The Outsiders

••• John MacGregor Unlocks Henry Darger's Unreal Realms

Lord of the Lolitas

Woman Overboard

Theater

Collage Credit

Stop Making Sense

Only Subvert

Farewell Column