American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore

The art is like nothing you have seen before. It will tantalize, please, dismay, stimulate, apall, make you small, cry and leave you utterly spellbound. Here are works by people who have serious mental illness, who are experimental in medium and materials in the best and wildest sense. You will have no idea what to expect next as you go from gallery to gallery because the museum is so different. Sometimes it will feel like a sideshow or freakshow, though I found nothing offensive about any of it. Rather the works draw you into the wildly different worlds of these unknown artists who are clearly trying very hard to express ideas, feelings, wishes, fears, anxieties though art. I cannot imagine anyone not liking the experience. You will walk out of the museum thinking about and looking at things quite differently than any other museum. Definitely not to be missed.