Marco Pasi is at it again working with curator Bang Larsen and Simon Grant curating another exciting exhibition at the intersection of Art and Spiritualism, Automatism & Supernatural agency. Of course Georgina Houghton looks to be predominately featured.… Continue Reading
Japan Supernatural: Ghosts, Goblins and Monsters 1700s to Now Discover a fascinating world in an exhibition like no other, featuring over 180 wildly imaginative works by Japanese artists past and present. Step into the shadows and come face-to-face with an astonishing array… Continue Reading
Spirituality Has Long Been Erased From Art History. Here’s Why It’s Having a Resurgence Today With an Agnes Pelton show on the horizon at the Whitney, we investigate the trend for spiritually-minded art. What to do when, in the words… Continue Reading
A fantastic podcast holiday season interlude with the Amy Hale and Earl Fontainelle on SWEP – ‘Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast’ talking about Ithell Colquhoun. I have to admit I was surprised to see this addition to the podcast as… Continue Reading
VIVIENNE ROBERTS AND THE COLLEGE OF PSYCHIC STUDIES, LONDON – MEET THE COLLECTOR SERIES PART ELEVEN I chose friend and art collector Vivienne Roberts to be my eleventh in the series. Vivienne is currently the Curator at the College… Continue Reading
Thelemic Inspired VR short wins Youth Jury Award Awarded by the Youth Jury composed of Eugenio Piazza, Bianca Gagliardi, Antonella Stelitano, Francesco Minniti, Giulio Lattanzi, Salva Malouk and Angela Ranieri. The jury comes from the world of education and the University… Continue Reading
The Medium’s Medium A pair of new exhibitions looks at how Spiritualism influenced modern art, and how its followers believed they could contact the dead, writes Kelly Grovier. Every age invents the language that it needs. Posterity will determine what… Continue Reading
The Artist Who Embraced the Occult and Defied the Surrealists British artist Ithell Colquhoun’s uncanny paintings are full of androgynous gods, murderous goddesses, yoni-like fruit, and disembodied, fleshy parts floating across hallucinatory, dreamlike landscapes. “My life is uneventful, but I sometimes… Continue Reading
BARRY WILLIAM HALE at the Buckland Museum of Witchcraft & Magick Cleveland Ohio. OPENING DECEMBER 3 2019 ! download: SHOW CATALOG Although Hale does not intend to proselytize or convert he does want to make occult symbolism and ritual more accessible… Continue Reading
The Haitian Surrealists That History Forgot This month, an exhibition dedicated to Haitian artists working between the 1940s and 1960s, “Art + Revolution in Haiti,” will be on view at various locations in London. The Gallery of Everything—an idiosyncratic dealer mounting concurrent presentations… Continue Reading