An ancient Mayan text captured the moment when a royal astronomer made a scientific discovery about the movement of Venus across the night sky. The text, called the Dresden Codex, contains laborious measurements of the rising and setting of Venus.… Continue Reading
Storytelling images on a deer-hide “manuscript” from Mexico have been seen for the first time in 500 years, thanks to sophisticated scanning technology that penetrated layers of chalk and plaster. This “codex,” a type of book-like text, originated in the… Continue Reading
Around 1,500 years ago, at a time when China was divided, a woman named Farong was laid to rest wearing fantastic jewelry, which included a necklace of 5,000 beads and “exquisite” earrings, archaeologists report. Her tomb was discovered in 2011… Continue Reading
ART : Esoteric and Arcane X The Cabinet of the Solar Plexus and GalleryX are pleased to present this landmark exhibition of international esoteric and arcane art, curated by Dolorosa de la Cruz This is not only the first event… Continue Reading
The Beauty of Belief It’s been a beautiful summer, at least in the Northeast, but much about the current election cycle has made it something of a challenge to have any sort of fun at all. How doubly grateful we… Continue Reading
Ireland’s Hot Press posted a preview regarding a new exhibition of esotheric art opening in Dublin. To wit: “An Exhibition of vibrant, Esoteric and Arcane art opens in Gallery X in Dublin this weekend. From opening night on Friday 9… Continue Reading
Collective777 member Robert Buratti is among those who’ll have original artwork carried into space on the Osiris-REx, an American space mission making a round trip to the near -Earth asteroid Bennu and back – launching TODAY and returning to Earth… Continue Reading
The University of Wollongong in Australia has made the entire back catalogue of influential psychedelic magazine OZ available for perusal online – for free! Their site says: “OZ magazine was published in Sydney, Australia, between 1963 and 1969 under the… Continue Reading
In 2000, an exhibition of Norton’s paintings was held in Kings Cross, Sydney, organised by various enthusiasts including Keith Richmond, and Barry Hale of the Australian Ordo Templi Orientis. A full-colour catalogue, The Occult Visions of Rosaleen Norton was published… Continue Reading
io9.gizmodo.com has posted an interview with noted comic/graphic novel auteur and Chaos magician Grant Morrison focused on his assuming the helm of venerable sci-fi /fantasy anthology Heavy Metal. Read on: http://io9.gizmodo.com/grant-morrison-talks-about-running-heavy-metal-the-cla-1786069423