“My first encounter with Ray Robinson was in the fall of 1981 as a 19 year old, in Sarnia Ontario. He visited the community college where I was studying art, as he was set to take over the department’s program… Continue Reading
While followers of this blog are more than likely familiar with the Crowley collection at the Warburg Institute, they may be a little less familiar with the work it’s progenitor Aby Warburgh. Well now you can with a remarkable online… Continue Reading
Not Without My Ghosts: The Artist As Medium t’s a ghost! And a naughty one at that. The apparition floats up, sprouting faun-like forms and wicked faces in what resembles a cloud of opium smoke. This vision, in a… Continue Reading
Apparitions “APPARITIONS” an exhibition of important vintage spirit photography, prints and drawings and contemporary art on the subject of ghosts, spirits and the paranormal from the collection of Stephen Romano Gallery. The exhibtion will open on October… Continue Reading
I have always found the botanical motifs that seem to emerge from early examples of Art directed by supernatural agency that we find in the circles of Spiritualism and related traditions. There is often an inexplicably organic… Continue Reading
Mortensen’s Witches @ SCOPE SCOPE Art Show and Stephen Romano Gallery are pleased to announce that “WILLIAM MORTENSEN’S WITCHES”, an exhibition which originated at the Buckland Museum of Witchcraft and Magick in Cleveland Ohio, and featured in Hi Fructose magazine, will be presented at… Continue Reading
Marco Pasi is at it again working with curator Bang Larsen and Simon Grant curating another exciting exhibition at the intersection of Art and Spiritualism, Automatism & Supernatural agency. Of course Georgina Houghton looks to be predominately featured.… Continue Reading
Japan Supernatural: Ghosts, Goblins and Monsters 1700s to Now Discover a fascinating world in an exhibition like no other, featuring over 180 wildly imaginative works by Japanese artists past and present. Step into the shadows and come face-to-face with an astonishing array… Continue Reading
VIVIENNE ROBERTS AND THE COLLEGE OF PSYCHIC STUDIES, LONDON – MEET THE COLLECTOR SERIES PART ELEVEN I chose friend and art collector Vivienne Roberts to be my eleventh in the series. Vivienne is currently the Curator at the College… Continue Reading
The Medium’s Medium A pair of new exhibitions looks at how Spiritualism influenced modern art, and how its followers believed they could contact the dead, writes Kelly Grovier. Every age invents the language that it needs. Posterity will determine what… Continue Reading