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
‘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
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
Dalai Lama’s Secret Tantric Murals unveiled for Exhibition Lukhang temple is the Buddhist Sistine Chapel, full of stunning murals of body-hopping yogis and the vagina that gave birth to the world. It’s meant for the Dalai Lama’s eyes only –… Continue Reading
From the people that brought you the ‘Thai Occult’, Jenx and friends have produced yet another fine publication. This time covering the highly recognisable but little understood occult art of ‘ Sak Yant’ the art of Magical Tattooing from… Continue Reading
May 29 – Harry Smith’s Birthday Harry Smith brought me to New York in the 90’s in search of his Enochian Watchtowers and his magical art and inspiration and it is serendipitous to be in NYC on his birthday… Continue Reading
Monster Brains is one of my favourite websites to browse because I’m a sucker for image catalogues of strange monsters, demons and the truly bizarre. I would encourage people to take a wander your bound to find some great stuff. There… Continue Reading
From a 16th-Century Book to a Robot-Assisted Performance, Artists Explore the Legend of the Golem Noise-math philosopher Norbert Wiener once aptly compared the old Jewish myth about the golem with cybernetic technology. Viewed through that lens, everything from transhuman artificial… Continue Reading
The 7th Night of Thelema I met the irrepresable Italian Director, Writer, Producer Gianluigi Perrone in Beijing some years back who tracked me down and insisted that we meet to talk about Magick! Gian has two shorts that made the… Continue Reading
Music Festival to recreates the Alice Coltrane’s ‘ashram’s vibe’ From the New York Times Surya Botofasina, 39, a keyboardist who lives in Brooklyn, has fond memories of growing up at the Shanti Anantam Ashram in Agoura, Calif., which was established… Continue Reading