The Satanic Temple reports that its headquarters at 64 Bridge St Salem, MA 01970 will be hosting a new art exhibit “Sanguine Spring,” featuring the work of Vincent Castiglia. Opening night party will be February 18. cute little promo film here: https://www.facebook.com/The-Satanic-Temple-220538341415523/… Continue Reading
Seminal avant-garde filmmaker and lifelong Thelemite Kenneth Anger was born 90 (though some sources say 87) years ago today! Several year ago he told Another Magazine: “I was raised a Presbyterian, but rejected Christianity at the age of eight, when my… Continue Reading
William Mortensen (1897 – 1965) – “A Pictorial Compendium of Witchcraft and Demonology” The complete 1924 series. William Mortensen Reconsidered by A. D. Coleman for LEXICON MAG The inclusion of William Mortensen in our current understanding of the history of… Continue Reading
Jason Atomic’s Freak Scenes! Comix! Dark Arts! Subversions! The “X” in comix is a distinguisher in the same way that the “K” is in magick. One peek through any underground comix from the late 60’s makes it clear very quick… Continue Reading
Late last year, The New Yorker ran a lengthy piece on Factum Arte, a company headed by former painter Adam Lowe, specializing in recreating ancient, irreplaceable art in the minutest detail. One of his grandest efforts is a recreation of… Continue Reading
George Graham: The Creation Paintings Hastings Museum and Art Gallery will hold an exhibition devoted to George Graham’s mysterious Creation Paintings from 20 January to 7 May 2017. Alex Brattell offers a preview. The spiritual in art is having one… Continue Reading
Here’s a recording of Brion Gysin declaiming his poem “I Am That I Am.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL-jdlTvRkk&app=desktop For those unacquainted with this gent, http://briongysin.com/ offers: BRION GYSIN, ARTIST, TRAVELLER, WRITER AND ALCHEMIST; ONE OF THE UNSUNG ENGLISH PAINTERS OF THE 20TH CENTURY, EXPELLED BY… Continue Reading
Appropos of nothing, here’s an extensive oral history one of my favorite pieces of meta-thaumaturgy (second only to the transformation of United States effected by EGC Bishop Harry Smith via his talisman titled The Anthology of American Folk Music), the… Continue Reading
The Guardian Culture shorts featured a small video on the search for Leonora Carrington by her cousin. Carrington’s work was featured in the ‘Language of the Birds: Occult and Art’. Leonora Carrington escaped a stultifying Lancashire childhood to run off with Max Ernst… Continue Reading
71 years ago today, having completed a series of rituals he referred to as the “Babalon Working” to summon an Elemental to be his magical partner, rocket scientist and Thelemite Jack Parsons came home to find Marjorie Cameron waiting for him… Continue Reading