Revolution Reborn: Under November frost, revolution cracked open, hope soared again. Ekphrastic assemblage. Mixed media/found objects: 2026. Poetic License 2026: November 13, 2026 – January 16, 2027 Upstate Artists Guild and Hudson Valley Writers Guild have come together once again to present ekphrastic art inspired by poetry (usually it goes the other way around). Poets…
Category: art
Conduits of the Unseen
Let me urge you, since there are a few days left, to do what you can to see Conduits of the Unseen: Women Artists Imagine Other Worlds at the Andrew Edlin Gallery just south of Canal [but do avoid Canal at all costs — ugh, the gauntlet of hawkers that fill the pavement!]. To the…
Be Surreal, I Beg You
I am still snowed under with October work: Bridging the Invisible this weekend and How Tarot Became Magic next week, but I want to pause to recommend some reading to you that will give you 1) power 2) political resistance and most importantly 3) joy. Okay, some pain, too, just to acknowledge where we are…
Women of the Fall
The Women of The Fall Weekender 5 – 6 September Music • Film • Conversation The Women of The Fall Weekender is a two-day celebration bringing together artists who played with The Fall alongside special guest artists from the wider independent music community for a programme of live music, film, conversation and collaboration. Taking place…
DCA: The Charm Offensive
Glaswegian France-Lise McGurn has filled the Dundee Contemporary Arts with a big, colourful exhibition that hums with energy and an infectious sense of playfulness. It masks slightly the serious explorations of women’s depictions in art and culture, but that’s part of the point. Lure you in, make you think. There’s such a quiet confidence in…
Haunted, Repeatedly: Vernon Sewell
While best known to genre fans for Curse of The Crimson Altar, Vernon Sewell had a persistent interest in hauntings that led him to remake the same play as four different films. The play is L’Angoisse by Celia de Vilyars and Pierre Mills, and seems to have been a late Grand Guignol piece but I’ve…
Bridging the Invisible: Get Your Tix!
Online conference for art, design, magic, and religion. October 15 – 17, 2026 The Department of Art + Art History and The Center for the Study of Ideas and Practices at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, in co-sponsorship with The Center for Advanced Studies – Erlangen, The University of Exeter’s Centre for Magic and Esotericism, Societas Magica, and RENSEP, are pleased to collaboratively host Creative…
On Cats
I know I have neglected the blog of late but I have been preoccupied with my presentation for ISSS; like most works, they are never finished, only abandoned — or in the case of presentations, must be delivered at a specific time so the deadline is very real. That’s to say I think I am…
Bandcamp Friday Bonanza
Bandcamp Friday means direct support for artists. Give these tracks a listen or even buy one or two and support the unemployed! Need more suggestions? Check out my own eclectic collection.
Voilà Brigitte
Thanks to Bertie’s recommendation I have started watching Voilà Brigitte, which comes in wee bite-sized episodes on the ‘tube. They’re perfect for taking breaks from the presentation I’m writing for ISSS later this month — or should I say wrestling into submission (I hope!). The eons that exist between the proposal and the presentation hold…