A masterwork by the ultimate outsider artist Henry Darger, hidden for years, exhibited online is being unveiled online in anticipation for 2022’s version of the Outsider Art Fair by the prestigious New York Gallery Ricco/Maresca. Darger is perhaps the… Continue Reading
This passed October, the fine artist publisher Taschen released the latest installment number in their Library of Esoterica series, Witchcraft, edited by Jessica Hundley and Pam Grossman. The publisher’s description says: Initiating readers in the fascinating and complex history of… Continue Reading
Writer James Tynion IV and artist John J. Pearson have created the 14th installment in The Department of Truth series. This one might tickle the fancies of a few of ye: “In 1946, Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard and eccentric… Continue Reading
Last week, Japan Today ran a feature about the opening of Japan’s first Tarot museum. The article begins: “Whether or not you believe in the fortune-telling and self-discovery powers of tarot cards, you have to admit that they can be beautiful… Continue Reading
So what rings youse guys’ bells? Classic Goth and Neo Goth music, horror movies, sci-fi, stories about the persecution of Witches… so, here’s a New York Times review of The Salem Witch Trials: Reckoning and Reclaiming, exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum.… Continue Reading
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is currently hosting an exhibit titled “Surrealism Beyond Borders.” It looks at Surrealist artists from around the world and over a time span of some 70 years rather than focusing on the French artists… Continue Reading
David Zwirner is pleased to present Tree of Knowledge, an exhibition of a rare set of Hilma af Klint’s groundbreaking 1913–1915 series of works on paper of the same title, on view at the David Zwirner Gallery’s 34 East 69th Street… Continue Reading
“My first encounter with Ray Robinson was in the fall of 1981 as a 19 year old, in Sarnia Ontario. He visited the community college where I was studying art, as he was set to take over the department’s program… Continue Reading
A couple years back Frater Orpheus posted on the the Argentine artist known as Xul Solar – someone perhaps underappreciated by the occult community. One of his projects was a book of meditations done under the guidance of the Prophet… Continue Reading
A Wall Street Journal thought piece on the mysterious Voynich Manuscript, legendarily spirited from England to Central Europe by Dr. John Dee, brought to my attention by Soror Amy, got me poking around leading me to this story about this… Continue Reading