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
Amongst the occultural community of yore, preferred divertissments included pointedly post-industrial art forms like Industrial Music per se (Throbbing Gristle, Coil, Cabaret Voltaire and so on) and spectacularly destructive, often mechanized performance art. One of the foremost exemplars of the… Continue Reading
Pixie” Colman Smith’s Dior Spring 2018 Couture by Maria Grazia Chiuri, inspired by the iconic surrealist painter, Leonor Fini All present weirdness considered, Surrealism and the dreams of women are pretty apt territory for an haute couture collection of… Continue Reading
“The sexual act is a sacrament of WiIl. To profane it is the great offense. All true expression of it is lawful; all suppression or distortion of it is contrary to the Law of liberty.” — Crowley, The Law is for… Continue Reading