Surrealism and Magic: Enchanted Modernity Curated by Grazina Subelyte, Exhibition Curator, Peggy Guggenheim Collection Venues: Peggy Guggenheim Collection, April 9–September 26, 2022 Museum Barberini, Potsdam, October 22, 2022–February 5, 2023 Like no other 20th-century movement, Surrealism was… 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
It seems as if the unknown chapter of Art history is writing itself at the moment and people are queuing up to see what all the fuss is about. It was by chance that Hilma af Klint was even discovered and… Continue Reading
CRITIC’S PICK ‘Hilma Who?’ No More Spiritual sparks helped inspire the radical and visionary art of Hilma af Klint, the new (old) name to know. Her work is on view at the Guggenheim. The New York Times Roberta Smith… Continue Reading
Great to see Joséphin Péladan & Salon de la Rose + Croix get there due in The New Yorker . Finally it seems as the Occult Roots of Modernism are being acknowledged. BWH The Magus of Paris and the Occult… Continue Reading
Mystical Symbolism: The Salon de la Rose+Croix in Paris, 1892–1897 In 1892 Joséphin Péladan (1859–1918), a Rosicrucian, self-proclaimed high priest of the occult, author, and critic, organized the first Salon de la Rose+Croix. This annual exhibition in Paris showcased mystical… Continue Reading