I don’t want to moralise about desire, be it scopophilia or any other kind.

they have established Darger as an outsider artist nonpareil

Anyone who’s seen photographs of Harlow’s monkeys clinging to wire models or huddled in isolation chambers will know that these are deeply disturbing experiments, carried out in an uneasy hinterland between the scientifically valid and the ethically abhorrent

apart from these neighbourly interventions, there is a vast paucity of human interaction, combined with an internal furore of emotion, particularly rage

Despite his talent, Hujar was perpetually indigent, living on the very edge of destitution in his loft on Second Avenue

same panoply of communities, in fact, that still colonise the web today

trapped in the squalid gyre of the Pacific trash vortex, breaking down into pelagic plastics that are themselves eaten by sea turtles and albatross