Juneteenth, also known as Juneteenth Independence Day or Freedom Day, is a holiday that commemorates the June 19, 1865 announcement of the abolition of slavery in Texas, and more generally the emancipation of African-American slaves throughout the Confederate South. The… Continue Reading
Earlier this year, the organizers of the Trans-State Conference posted videos of some of the presentations from last year’s installment. Here we post Jonathan Allen’s presentation on “The Tarot Deck of Austin Osman Spare.” The online description states: “In Two… Continue Reading
The Art Institute of Chicago will be hosting an exhibit devoted to Gnostic Saint Paul Gauguin entitled “Gauguin As Alchemist” which opens June 25 and ends September 10. I’m sure the Propet of the Lovely Star would approve of the… Continue Reading
Today is Bloomsday, the annual celebration in which James Joyce’s Ulysses breaks out of the classroom and hits the streets. To commemorate his first date with his future wife, Nora Barnacle, Joyce set his novel on June 16, 1904. That date… Continue Reading
‘The private life of art’: the Museum of Everything opens in Hobart In the basement of Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art, you enter a house with Georgian facade. Initially it evokes a vanished, suburban England, the type skewered… Continue Reading
Dr. Richard Kaczynski’s illustrated article “Cartomancy in the Cotswolds: Freida Lady Harris and Aleister Crowley at Chipping Campden” is now available for free download at the Chipping Campden History Society website. Really. This isn’t a trick to get you to… Continue Reading
What would sex be like at zero-G? Can people get pregnant in that environment? Does gravity or lack thereof affect condom efficacy? Did you know that orgasms are better at lower oxygen concentrations? Will radiation be a factor? And those… Continue Reading
Chromatopia – A History of Colour A new exhibition in Melbourne curated by paint-maker David Coles tracks the history of over 200 pigments – some deadly, some revolting, and some so rare and expensive they are no longer in… Continue Reading
Our pal Inominandum posted this interesting reflection on the Catholic saint Sara-la-Kali and her feast which took place late last month. This is wonderfully trippy! “…in the French town of Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, a statue of Saint Sara-la-Kali, dressed in seven layers… Continue Reading
On June 14, 1825, Pierre Charles L’Enfant, the French-born American architect who laid out Washington, DC, died at age 70. L’Enfant is said to have been a Freemason and a friend of George Washington. When Congress decided to build a… Continue Reading