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Henry Darger

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    October 20, 2011

    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 >>

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    Going Hollywood

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    Vivian Girls+Times New Viking+Stupid Party

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    Class Action Listings

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    XXY: Intersex Drama

    Oh, the teenage trauma of gender assignment

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    April 22, 2008

    Paul Chan: A Light in April

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

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    November 20, 2007

    Women are from Mars; Men from Greece

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

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    April 24, 2007

    Where the Mechanical Things Are

    Recommendations by R.C. Baker

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    February 6, 2007

    Broken Angel

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

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    January 30, 2007

    The Biggest Picture

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

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    November 21, 2006

    Knifed

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    October 31, 2006

    Do the Collapse

    More pompous but occasionally thrilling annihilation from the TOD boys

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    October 10, 2006

    The Undead of Art History

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

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    September 26, 2006

    'Blood Tea and Red String'

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

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    July 4, 2006

    Prolific Indie Darling Repeats Himself Splendidly

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

  • Art

    June 13, 2006

    Heavy Metal

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

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    February 7, 2006

    Interrogation Nation

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

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    September 6, 2005

    Fashion Week: Clothes in the Time of Katrina

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    July 26, 2005

    Capturing an Artist's Aura

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

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    July 12, 2005

    Remote Patrol

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

  • Dance

    May 10, 2005

    Battling Children

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

  • Film

    January 4, 2005

    The Realm of the Unreal

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

  • NYC Life

    December 14, 2004

    Take Five

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

  • Film

    December 14, 2004

    The Imagined Universe of an Outsider Artist Par Excellence

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

  • Art

    November 2, 2004

    Both Sides Now

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

  • Art

    September 28, 2004

    Critical Call

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

  • Art

    June 15, 2004

    Termite Theory

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

  • Books

    May 4, 2004

    Stone Reading

    Unlike you, this teenager got her fantasy novel published

  • Music

    March 16, 2004

    Faeries From Yon Philly Wood Revive Ye Olde Jousting Folke

    Unlike you, this teenager got her fantasy novel published

  • Art

    February 10, 2004

    Art

    Unlike you, this teenager got her fantasy novel published

  • News

    December 2, 2003

    Open Me

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

  • Books

    August 12, 2003

    Word Salad

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

  • Books

    June 3, 2003

    Compound Interest

    Travis Jeppesen's Alien Nation

  • Art

    April 29, 2003

    Primal Time

    Ecstatic Shamanic Devices at the Folk Art Museum

  • Dance

    April 8, 2003

    House-to-House Sighting

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

  • Art

    March 18, 2003

    Father's Day

    Going Ape in Chelsea

  • Books

    December 10, 2002

    Top Shelf

    Our 25 Favorite Books of 2002

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    October 29, 2002

    Good on Paper

    Our 25 Favorite Books of 2002

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    May 28, 2002

    Canvas Sneaker

    Our 25 Favorite Books of 2002

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    May 7, 2002

    Letters

    Our 25 Favorite Books of 2002

  • Specials

    April 30, 2002

    Letters

    Our 25 Favorite Books of 2002

  • Art

    April 16, 2002

    The Outsiders

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

  • Art

    December 25, 2001

    Lord of the Lolitas

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

  • Art

    May 1, 2001

    Woman Overboard

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

  • Theater

    April 10, 2001

    Theater

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

  • Books

    February 13, 2001

    Collage Credit

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

  • Art

    January 2, 2001

    Stop Making Sense

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

  • Art

    May 30, 2000

    Only Subvert

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

  • Art

    October 27, 1998

    Farewell Column

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

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