The Medium’s Medium

The Medium’s Medium A pair of new exhibitions looks at how Spiritualism influenced modern art, and how its followers believed they could contact the dead, writes Kelly Grovier. Every age invents the language that it needs. Posterity will determine what… Continue Reading

The Artist Who Embraced the Occult and Defied the Surrealists

The Artist Who Embraced the Occult and Defied the Surrealists British artist Ithell Colquhoun’s uncanny paintings are full of androgynous gods, murderous goddesses, yoni-like fruit, and disembodied, fleshy parts floating across hallucinatory, dreamlike landscapes. “My life is uneventful, but I sometimes… Continue Reading

Barry William Hale @ Raymond Buckland Museum of Witchcraft & Magick

  Barry William Hale @ Raymond Buckland Museum of Witchcraft & Magick December 3 -February 1, 2020. The Buckland Museum of Witchcraft and Magick in Cleveland Ohio and  The Stephen Romano Gallery in Brooklyn New York are please to announce a one… Continue Reading

The Haitian Surrealists That History Forgot

The Haitian Surrealists That History Forgot This month, an exhibition dedicated to Haitian artists working between the 1940s and 1960s, “Art + Revolution in Haiti,” will be on view at various locations in London. The Gallery of Everything—an idiosyncratic dealer mounting concurrent presentations… Continue Reading