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
Mysteria Maxima Magazine: Celebrate the Strange Paperback is now available worldwide through Amazon.com. MMM is a counter culture journal featuring some of West Australia’s leading creative forces. Contributors include Laith Tierney (Author), Robert Buratti (Author), Kitty Du Jour (Author), Frater… Continue Reading
Stephen Romano Gallery Returns to the Outsider Art Fair 2017 January 19 – 22, 2017 Metropolitan Pavilion 125 West 18th Street New York, NY 10011 The Stephen Romano Gallery is pleased to announce that after being absent from the Outsider Art Fair… Continue Reading
Flowers of Evil and the Macabre Literary Imagination of Symbolism Vampires, fountains of blood, giantesses, dancing serpents, and “casks of hatred” populate Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal, a collection of poems from 1857. Similarly nightmarish imagery fills Flowers of Evil: Symbolist Drawings,… Continue Reading
Five artifacts seized by federal agents have been handed over to Egyptian officials in a ceremony at the Egyptian embassy in Washington D.C. by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to a report from ABC news objects, including a child’s… Continue Reading
One year on and Bowie’s life and legacy still fascinates, Lee Gerrard Barlow’s article digs a little deeper : BWH Osiris is a Black Star ~ David Bowie and the Occult Lately many have written on the occult aspects… Continue Reading
FULGUR’s account of the performance of Ithel Colquhoun’s Decad of Intelligence On the evening of December 16th, 2016, the inaugural performance of Ithell Colquhoun’s Decad of Intelligence echoed through the vast and visceral working space of the Slade Research Centre, London.… Continue Reading
Composer, singer, director/choreographer Meredith Monk has been a lead figure on the American avant-garde scene since the early 1970’s and is going strong today. In a recent Wall Street Journal interview she discussed her early influences which included taking Dalcroze… Continue Reading
Some scholars have suggested that glassmaking originated in Mesopotamia some 3,600 years ago, but conservation scientist Katherine Eremin of Harvard Art Museums and archaeologist Andrew Shortland of Cranfield University think that glassmaking may have been invented in Egypt. Science News… Continue Reading