Harry Smith’s Enochian Watch-Tower / Tartan analogy, inspires Artwork

The KLANS of ENOK by Barry William Hale [Being] A unique set of Tartans created for the Spiritual Inhabitants of the Watchtowers of the Enochian magical system, received during the angelic operations of Elizabethan magician and polymath Dr John Dee and his seer… Continue Reading

Orishas become Superheroes in homage to Jack Kirby the William Blake of Comics

Marvel Meets Orishas: A Brazilian Artist Is Turning African Gods Into Superheroes Something looked familiar, the Aesthetic style of Jack Kirby made a huge impact upon me as a child, it was everything I wanted and more. BWH Marvel Meets… Continue Reading

William Mortensen’s Pictorial Compendium of Witchcraft and Demonology”.

William Mortensen (1897 – 1965) – “A Pictorial Compendium of Witchcraft and Demonology” The complete 1924 series. William Mortensen Reconsidered by A. D. Coleman for LEXICON MAG The inclusion of William Mortensen in our current understanding of the history of… Continue Reading

The Spiritual in Art and Zombie formalisms

George Graham: The Creation Paintings Hastings Museum and Art Gallery will hold an exhibition devoted to George Graham’s mysterious Creation Paintings from 20 January to 7 May 2017. Alex Brattell offers a preview. The spiritual in art is having one… Continue Reading

Leonora Carrington: Britain’s lost Surrealist

The Guardian Culture shorts featured a small video on the search for Leonora Carrington by her cousin.  Carrington’s work was featured in the ‘Language of the Birds: Occult and Art’. Leonora Carrington escaped a stultifying Lancashire childhood to run off with Max Ernst… Continue Reading

Stephen Romano Gallery Returns to the Outsider Art Fair 2017

Stephen Romano Gallery Returns to the Outsider Art Fair 2017 January 19 – 22, 2017 Metropolitan Pavilion 125 West 18th Street New York, NY 10011 The Stephen Romano Gallery is pleased to announce that after being absent from the Outsider Art Fair… Continue Reading

Flowers of Evil – Symbolist making the Invisible Visible

Flowers of Evil and the Macabre Literary Imagination of Symbolism Vampires, fountains of blood, giantesses, dancing serpents, and “casks of hatred” populate Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal, a collection of poems from 1857. Similarly nightmarish imagery fills Flowers of Evil: Symbolist Drawings,… Continue Reading

Inaugural Performance of Ithell Colquhoun’s Decad of Intelligence

FULGUR’s account of the performance of Ithel Colquhoun’s Decad of Intelligence On the evening of December 16th, 2016, the inaugural performance of Ithell Colquhoun’s Decad of Intelligence echoed through the vast and visceral working space of the Slade Research Centre, London.… Continue Reading