With Offbeat Artists' Enclaves, Who Needs Resorts?

No, that’s not an exterior shot of Pee-Wee’s Playhouse above, it’s the House of Artists at the Art/Brut Center Gugging just north of Vienna. The center houses a museum/exhibition space where visitors can purchase works by the artists in residence, all of whom happen to be mental patients, which seems appropriate, as the center was once a sprawling psychiatric hospital. Daphne Merkin explains further in her recent piece on Gugging and its unique twist on Outsider Art in Culture+Travel.