Today it’s time to swing by the Sigmund Freud Museum in London to see ‘The Symptomatic Surreal’ a voyage through the mind of Leonora Carrington as she reels from the horrors of the Second World War and the those of incarceration in a mental institute. I think this crystalises the moment when the narrative shifts…
Category: travel
The Tate: From Tanks to Tracey
No trip to London feels complete without a stroll to the Tate — at least one of them, often both. This time around a brevity of time even for one, and yet I still seemed to take too many photos. Sometimes they turn out quite lovely like this image of the Millennium Bridge on the…
Random Bits
As I try to organise the billionty photos from the trip, a few random bits of madness glimpsed along the way. Bob Benchley getting an egg wash from Ginger Rogers (not pictured) in my tiny hotel room — big contrast to my spacious digs in Manchester, where there was room even for an easy chair….
Anselm Kiefer: Le Alchimiste
Apart from the massive tarot exhibit, the other one I was really looking forward to was Anselm Kiefer’s Le Alchimiste. Obviously the topic grabbed my attention at once — the alchemical women from history and how they fought to share in the knowledge and learning of their times despite the very real barriers from discouragement…
La Scala Museum
As usual, working backwards from the manageable to the unmanageable — you can guess how many photos I have from the tarot exhibit but lordy, I also have hundreds from the Metafisica exhibit. Baby steps, bit by bit–let’s hope I can get some sharing of the wealth done before I add even more to the…
Glimpse of Milan
As you might guess, I have a lot of photos to wrangle from the Milan trip. My first priority this week was getting the new course up and promoted (have to pay for this travel, after all!) but I am beginning to get things sorted. Milan was a whirl: beautiful, fast-paced, hot of course. Hit…
Picturesque Berlin
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…
Johanna Dumet: Fool for a Lifetime
Circling around all the things that went on in Berlin: so much! So many glories to experience. Art everywhere and have I gone on at length about the sheer wonder of a modern city with affordable, convenient 24/7 public transportation? Well, I will at the drop of a hat. Drop a hat and see! Johanna…
Occulture
How to describe the phantasmagoria of experiences that was Occulture? It may take a couple posts. Long story short: I’m really glad I went. I was very happy with the responses to my talk and met lots of people who were excited to talk all things Leonora Carrington. And yes, the good news is my…
L’Étoile
Now in the shop: L’Étoile! Do you see the Star? Egyptomania was rampant in occult circles of the 18th and 19th centuries. This Star Card is adapted from Les XXII Lames Hermètiques du Tarot Divinatoire (1896) by R. Falconnier, illustrated by M.O. Wegener, son of the Swedish-born French photographer, Otto Wegener. Now that the Tower…