The self-taught artist Valton Tyler (1944-2017) lived and worked in Dallas, Texas, and its environs. He created remarkable works — oil paintings, ink drawings on paper, complex etchings — that remain hard to classify according to existing style or genre labels. In 2017, Edward M. Gómez (brutjournal’s founder) and cinematographer Chris Shields made the first-ever film about Tyler’s life and art, which the artist saw before he died. This 42-minute-long film will reside permanently here, on the magazine’s website. It may be viewed in its entirety, free of charge. Watch it and get to know the bright, bizarre world of a techno-baroque visionary. Free access to article and film.

Long overdue, but better late than never: Through October 18, the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) is presenting Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw, a survey of more than 100 works by a canonical artist in the annals of American outsider art who deeply influenced the Chicago Imagists of the 1960s and 1970s. Yoakum, an African American who sometimes spoke of his Native American ancestry, worked with circuses and served in World War I as a young man. His lyrical-fantastic drawings may be viewed as recollections of his youthful travels. brutjournal’s U.S.A. West Coast bureau chief, Sarah Fensom, interviewed exhibition co-curator Mark Pascale of the AIC.

Ionel Talpazan (1955-2015), a Romanian immigrant to the U.S.A., led a life of poverty and struggle but soared to the stratosphere and beyond in his vivid imagination, conjuring up otherworldly UFOs and theories about their origins. Now, brutjournal publishes an exclusive excerpt from a forthcoming, new book about Talpazan by Daniel Wojcik, an expert in folklore and mythology who knew the New York-based, visionary artist and has long focused on his unusual art.