‘Bughouse’ Is an Intense and Intimate Study of the Ultimate Outsider Artist

‘Bughouse’ Is an Intense and Intimate Study of the Ultimate Outsider Artist

Director Martha Clarke and playwright Beth Henley document the troubled life and profilic art of Henry Darger.

Bughouse Review. On Outsider artist Henry Darger

Henry Darger spent his life creating a 15,000-page novel, a 5,000-page autobiography, and more than 350 large watercolor paintings, none of which he ever attempted to publish or exhibit. His landlord and a neighbor discovered this body of work in the cluttered apartment they were clearing out when Darger moved to a nursing home shortly before his death in 1973 at the age of 81. “Henry Darger is viewed today as probably  the greatest Outsider art…