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THE AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM presents: FREE MUSIC FRIDAYS !!<\/p>\n
and that means: tomorrow !! FRIDAY AUGUST 22, 2008 from 5:30-8 PM !!<\/p>\n
its a great deal – you get to explore all 5 floors of the museum for FREE, grab a drink in the cafe and enjoy live music in the museum’s ‘stunning’ atrium. this is especially notable – as the current
\nfeatured exhibit is – ‘DARGERism: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger’ !!<\/p>\n
in fact, New York City’s AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM is “home to the single largest repository of works by HENRY DARGER” – probably one of the best & certainly, the most notorious outsider artist of the past century, Henry Darger (1892-1973). sure to be some very fascinating works by him. above, ‘AT SUNBEAM CREEK. ARE WITH LITTLE GIRL REFUGEES AGAIN IN PERIL FROM FOREST FIRES. BUT ESCAPE THIS ALSO, BUT HALF NAKED AND IN BURNED RAGS ….. ‘ . . . one of the featured contemporary artists – in ‘DARGERism’ – is none other than our very FAVE !! photographer – JUSTINE KURLAND – !!<\/p>\n above, from ‘DARGERism: CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS AND HENRY DARGER’ . . . and in fact, something more<\/em> – to really look FORWARD to, THE AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM is following up with what looks to be a really interesting – upcoming exhibition, also drawn from their extensive Henry Darger collection: . . . back to tomorrow, FRIDAY AUGUST 22, 2008 – the live folk music will be performed by:<\/p>\n DAPHNE DARLING at 5:30PM – she seems to hail from TORONTO – see: DAPHNE DARLING<\/a><\/p>\n and, ARLON BENNETT at 6:30 – a local talent – see: ARLON BENNETT<\/a><\/p>\n AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM – 45 West 53rd St. (bet 5th & 6th Avenues) – NYC<\/p>\n
\nget more info on the exhibit: ‘DARGERism’ !!<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Darger](\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/Darger_____2.jpg\")
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\nHENRY DARGER (1892-1973), CHICAGO, MID TWENTIETH CENTURY
\nWatercolor, pencil, carbon tracing, and collage on pieced paper. 19 x 70-1\/2 in.
\nPHOTO BY JAMES PRINZ\/COURTESY: AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM<\/p>\n![\"Darger](\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/Darger__3.jpg\")
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\n‘BATTLEFIELD’ – JUSTINE KURLAND, (b. 1969), NEW YORK
\nColor Photograph, 2001, 30 x 40 in.
\nIMAGE COURTESY\/AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM\/PHOTO COURTESY: Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York<\/p>\n![\"darger](\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/darger___6.jpg\")
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\n ‘UP CLOSE: HENRY DARGER’ – will run OCT 7, 2008 – JUNE 2009.
\naccording to the museum’s website – “The American Folk Art Museum will devote an intimate gallery on the fourth floor to rotating exhibitions focusing on a single theme. The first of these will showcase eight of the nearly three hundred watercolors Henry Darger created to illustrate his 15,000-page manuscript The Story of the Vivian Girls, in what is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, caused by the Child Slave Rebellion.<\/em> VOLUME 6 of that epic will also be on display.”<\/p>\n