Here’s yet another thought provoking video from the Trans State Conference, Georgia van Raalte discussing the “The Ghetto Tarot”: “Belgian photographer Alice Smeets and Haitian art collective Atis Rezistans created the Ghetto Tarot deck in 2015. A photographic interpretation of… Continue Reading
England’s Fulgur Limited has announced the upcoming publication of a new title, A Book of Staves by Jesse Bransford. The publisher’s site states: “Icelandic folk magic and magical texts — so-called low and high magic – combine as sources and… Continue Reading
“But your holy place shall be untouched throughout the centuries: though with fire and sword it be burnt down & shattered, yet an invisible house there standeth…” Liber AL vel Legis 3:34 INVISIBLE HOUSE… Continue Reading
Last September saw the world-premier of “The Wake World” opera by composer/librettist David Hertzberg, inspired by Aleister Crowley’s “Tale for babes and sucklings” of the same name. It was staged at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. “The Wake World” is… Continue Reading
Dark Mofo will be presenting a retrospective of the work of the late, revered EGC Bishop Harry With at the Salamanca Arts Center in Tasmania this coming June. So if yr in the neighborhood don’t miss it! Smith’s art adorned… Continue Reading
The Centre de Cultura Contemporania in Barcelona (the Catalan state museum) will be hosting the Black Light exhibit that will include some 80 objects on loan from the O.T.O. Archives including artwork and books. The exhibit opens May 16 and… Continue Reading
Here’s a wonderful story from The Guardian regarding Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz resistance via monumental art to the tyranny and vandalism of Daesh. The story starts: “In February 2015, Isis militants videoed themselves drilling the face off one of the commanding stone statues that had… Continue Reading
TAROT AS COLOUR : FULGUR Ithell Colquhoun A radical visual exploration of the occult forces behind the traditional tarot deck by the neglected British Surrealist, Ithell Colquhoun. In 1977, a series of 78 strange enamel works were exhibited in… Continue Reading
Check out O=II blogger Barry William Hale’s my contribution for the Stephen Romano Gallery’s booth at the Scope Art Fair – CONJURATION OF BEELZEBUB + SERVITORS Assemblage # 1 – in as well as some of the other great art from the Booth in… Continue Reading
As part of the space’s East Village Series, a homage to its surrounding neighborhood, Performance Space New York spotlights a feminist poet and novelist in “Kathy Acker: Who Wants to Be Human All the Time.” The presentation is co-curated by Jenny Schlenzka,… Continue Reading