So little time; so much to do! And so many adventures not yet shared. Unable to choose which exhibit to showcase next, instead I offer some random beauty from my wanderings in Berlin for Occulture. I stayed in a hotel near Berlin Alexanderplatz on the advice of a friend and it was a great central…
Review: The Conjuring of America
THE CONJURING OF AMERICA: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women’s Magic Lindsey Stewart Legacy/Hachette, 2025 I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Stewart carefully builds up the history of Black Women’s Magic from its African roots to the Americas and Caribbean, through the years of enslavement and then the Great Migration, right…
The Umpteenth Dog Redux
Prompted by the Hudson Valley Writers Guild to assess my ‘Year in Review’ I made a video. While I had a number of things published this year, looking back over blog posts (which is how I keep track of these things) I re-read my angry February post The Umpteenth Dog and decided it needed more…
Crossing Borders
A new exhibit Border Crossings opened this summer at the McManus Galleries. It highlights Scots artists who often went off to other lands to find fame. Like Eduardo Paolozzi: Check out the McManus page dedicated to it, but I will share a couple more here. I drafted this post months ago and then found it…
Surrealism in Berlin
This week has been rather more hectic than expected so I’m jumping around and the roulette wheel lands on Surrealism in Berlin — specifically the exhibit at the Neue Nationalgalerie ‘Max Ernst to Dorothea Tanning: Networks of Surrealism’. Some helpful fellow (sorry, don’t think I got a name) came up at the end of my…
Writer Wednesday: Phyllis Carito
This Wednesday we have a visit from Phyllis Carito: Ready to write your memoir? I am a writer and educator and I believe we all have a story to tell. I’d like to share my expertise and encouragement with you about writing a memoir. How you develop your story with the theme and facts clearly…
Medievalism in Excalibur
Guess what? It’s time to replace that worn old copy of your favourite Arthurian film! ARROW VIDEO is just about to release a brand new deluxe edition of EXCALIBUR! Always good news to hear that a film you love is getting the royal treatment, but I’m particularly chuffed because I have an essay in the…
Occult Humanities 2025
OCCULT HUMANITIES 2025 I’m always eager to attend this event which combines great speakers, art, and a variety of vendors — as well as the usual NYC attractions: a bit of art with Stephanie and a chance to catch up with Katja (not to mention a couple of quite good restaurants!). It was a relatively…
#DressDreamsDesire @ FIT
After the 9 @ Nagas, we strolled down to the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology — actually we had a very good lunch first at Kame Ramen. Then we headed over for Dress, Dreams & Desire curated by Dr Valerie Steele, who is also director of the Museum. I love art you can…
9 Women @ Nagas
In order to restore some order to life, the universe and this blog, I am backtracking to when it all became overwhelming which would be mid-October and yes — ha! — it’s getting on the last part of November, but maybe this week I can endeavour to catch up a little. I do mostly write…