Outsider Art Part Four: Herbert Crowley and Justin Deurr
OUTSIDER ART PART ONE PART TWO PART THREE Herbert Crowley does not quite fit the [...]
Outsider Art Part Three: Charles Dellschau
OUTSIDER ART PART ONE PART TWO Charles Dellchau was an artist and flight enthusiast. Beyond [...]
Outsider Art Part Two: James Hampton
OUTSIDER ART PART ONE HERE In November of 1964, landlord Meyer Wertlieb visited a small [...]
Outsider Art Part One: Henry Darger
History has a cruel and ironic relationship with artists. Somewhere, right now, masterpieces are rotting [...]
The Pathology of Obedience
Obedience is the essential ingredient in our social contract, without which the civilized world would [...]
Project Artichoke
When choosing topics for Dark Distractions, I often find myself desensitized to my research, especially [...]
Serge Voronoff, the Monkey Gland Man
Everyone wants to live forever, and science has long sought to deliver that promise—always staying [...]
Death by Clutter: The Collyer Brothers
We all have that one house in our neighborhood. You know the one—the dwelling so [...]
The Little Albert Experiment
The human mind is both resilient and impressionable, capable of remarkable adaptability yet vulnerable to [...]
Tamam Shud Part Two
If you missed part one, catch up here. It’s December 1948, the dawn of the [...]