News

From insane asylum to art center, Ohio University’s Ridges complex showcases Athens’ past and present. Published: Jun. 09, 2022, 8:51 a.m.
Fountain Gallery, located at 702 Ninth Avenue at 48th Street and representing artists living and working with mental illness, announces the opening of ASYLUM: Artists from the Living Museum.
CREDITORS GET NONE OF BECKWITH MONEY; Referee Decides That Insane Artist Died in 1901. BROTHER'S CHILDREN GET ALL Legal Controversy Followed Mysterious Disappearance from Flushing Asylum in 1894.
Declared insane in 1936 at the age of 28, Deeds spent his life in a Missouri mental hospital known as State Lunatic Asylum No. 3, where he drew prolifically. When he died, his art ended up in a ...
Congolese performance artist wins political asylum in US This June 2017 photo provided by Toto Kisaku and made by his son, shows Kisaku in New Haven, Conn. The ...
He ended up finding refuge in Pittsburgh’s City of Asylum, a place where writers and artists from countries across the world have settled, hoping for a chance to express themselves freely.
James Leadbitter, an artist and activist who goes by the pseudonym The Vacuum Cleaner, is organising the design and construction of a mental health asylum. BBC Homepage. Skip to content; ...
More than 80 professional artists from around the world have come together to help create a coloring book "without any borders" in support of asylum seekers.