Celluloid and Charcoal – The ‘CHAMANIC’ Cross-roads of Mario Mercier

  Erotic Folk Horror Master Mario Mercier’s New Series of Shamanic Drawings. Posted April 2017 bt 5T1V for LEXICON Mag Born in 1936, Mario Mercier is mostly known by movie buffs for his full-length films Erotic Witchcraft (La Goulve, 1972)… Continue Reading

As Above, So Below – Opens this Week

As Above, So Below: Portals, Visions, Spirits & Mystics   As Above, So Below Portals, Visions, Spirits & Mystics Major group exhibition and accompanying programme of events exploring spirituality in visual art to open at IMMA 13 April – 27… Continue Reading

William Mortensen’s Pictorial Compendium of Witchcraft and Demonology”.

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

Leonora Carrington: Britain’s lost Surrealist

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

Stephen Romano Gallery Returns to the Outsider Art Fair 2017

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

Inaugural Performance of Ithell Colquhoun’s Decad of Intelligence

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

Art Magazines edited by Spare digitized

Form and Austin Osman Spare From John Coulthart’s Journal {feuilleton} The University of Heidelberg‘s scanning programme continues to be a source of delight for those of us without professional or financial access to rare book collections. Having recently made the entire run… Continue Reading

Belkis Ayón late Cuban female artist draws inspiration from Abakuá, a men’s secret society

   Nkame: A Retrospective of Cuban Printmaker BelkisAyón exhibition of Cuban artist Belkis Ayón”Nkame: A Retrospective of Cuban Printmaker Belkis Ayón” opens October 2, 2016(Los Angeles, CA)—The Fowler Museum at UCLA is pleased to be the first museum in the… Continue Reading

An Artist Embraces the Magic Symbols that Helped Send Him to Death Row

An Artist Embraces the Magic Symbols that Helped Send Him to Death Row from Allison Meier article for  HYPRALLERGIC At Day for Night festival, Damien Echols invited visitors to engage with the occult symbols that helped lead to his wrongful murder… Continue Reading

“THE LANGUAGE OF BIRDS” get Best ART EXHIBITION of 2016 on DISINFO

“THE LANGUAGE OF BIRDS” get Best ART EXHIBITION of 2016 on DISINFO The BOWIE SHRINE ON LAFAYETTE STREET and “THE LANGUAGE OF BIRDS” curated by Pam Grossman Deadly freezing cold outside. Two events, just a few blocks apart in New… Continue Reading