Andrew Edlin Gallery has been operating since 2001 in New York City, with a particular specialty in self-taught makers. One, for instance, the American outsider artist Henry Darger (1892-1973), has works in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Art Institute of Chicago; Andrew Edlin has …
This article is part of our Museums special section about how artists and institutions are adapting to changing times. What’s all that yelling? It’s hard to make out the words, but at the entrance to the Virginia Museum of History & Culture’s new “Give Me Liberty” exhibition, a man’s voice …
by David Szalay Szalay’s new novel traces the life of a young man in Hungary who eventually makes his way to England, following him from troubled youth to immigrant success to tragic fall. Each chapter provides glimpses of the major stages of adulthood — first love, marriage, parenthood — interwoven …
Herman Graf, a major and intrepid figure in independent publishing who sold copies of Henry Miller’s novel “Tropic of Cancer” to bookstores after it was embroiled in a legal fight over whether it was obscene, died on Feb. 27 at his home in Flushing, Queens. He was 91. His nephew …
Scott Kerr, a fifth-generation art dealer in St. Louis, didn’t know what to expect last year as he was crossing the Mississippi River into East St. Louis, a once vibrant city in Illinois with a large Black population that never recovered economically after the civil unrest of the 1960s. Kerr …