Here’s some advance coverage posted at TheMusic.com of an exhibition of “responsive installation, performance,” occult art, digitally generated audioscapes and photographic collections co-curated by O=II contributor Barry William Hale (which indicates why his posts have been scarce of late — HE’S… Continue Reading
Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities series has published its latest title: The Occult in Modernist Art, Literature, and Cinema edited by Tessel Bauduin and Henrik Johnsson. The publisher’s site says: “Many modernist and avant-garde artists and authors were fascinated… Continue Reading
Tasmania’s Hieros Gamos Radio just posted an audio interview with NYC-based esoteric and visionary art collector and dealer Stephen Romano. Their SC page states: “From Henry Darger to Charles Dellschau and William Mortensen, Romano ‘the patron saint of lost causes’ takes… Continue Reading
The Visible Language of Outsider Art Vestiges & Verse: Notes from the Newfangled Epic, an exhibition of illustrated texts by self-taught artists, feels so intimate that it seems to enter the creative process itself. ” AFAM’s exhibition offers a… Continue Reading
Dreaming in the God Factory A display of original occult themed paintings by Minneapolis visual artist Roger Williamson Opening Reception Saturday June 23rd, 2018, 2 pm – 4 pm Closing Reception To be announced Magus Gallery Magus Books & Herbs 1848… Continue Reading
The occult, mysticism, and contemporary art at CCCB The exhibit ‘Black Light’ explores esoteric traditions in contemporary art since the ‘50s SHARE 15 May 2018 03:37 PM byACN | Barcelona A new exhibition called ‘Black Light: Secret Traditions… Continue Reading
Fifty-four years ago, a book about erotic submission became one of the most widely read French novels. The story was and remains controversial. Today, artist Natalie Frank recreates the book’s main scenes in drawings at New York’s Half Gallery through June 16. Vice… Continue Reading
from ARSTY In Remedios Varo’s fantastical, Surrealist paintings, bodies merge with objects and animals to create alluring new hybrid figures. In Mimicry (1960), for example, a woman sits in a patterned chair. The shapes of her arms and hands… Continue Reading
INTERVIEW WITH BRENDAN WALLS From DISINFO “Invisible House at DARK MOFO seeks to unsettle the barriers between science and magic; space and time.” ….DISINFO what was the formative inspiration behind “Invisible House”? BW Invisible House is a multimedia program… Continue Reading
Some of y’all are aware that Wassily Kandinksy, popularly considered the first Abstract painter was influenced by the esoteric theories of color and shape propounded by the leaders of the Theosophical Society. Few (INCLUDING ME) are likely aware that Swedish… Continue Reading