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…
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Sound & Vision: Cunning Folk Magazine
The new issue of Cunning Folk Magazine is out and includes a piece by me on medieval magic and sound as well as a wide range of fascinating work by other folks that will doubtless charm and inspire you. As usual: we are really in a golden age of beautiful little magazines that bring together…
CREATE 20×20 Opens This Weekend!
Member 20×20 Show at 393 Main Street, Catskill NY We are thrilled to announce that we’ll be hosting the Member 20×20 show at 393 Main Street, Catskill – Wave Farm WGXC’s Catskill Studio for six weeks from November 15 – December 21st. Artists are curating their 20’x20″ spaces and we’re creating an art shop for the holidays! Join…
Fundraiser: Occulture
Thanks to the monumental skills of Stephanie the Queen of Everything, I now have a Threadless store with merch to sell! First up a LIMITED TIME OFFER for fundraising TOUR MERCH to help pay my way to Berlin for Occulture where I will be spreading the gospel of Leonora Carrington, of course! You can get…
Hilma’s Plants
I hit this fabulous MOMA exhibit in the spring with the fabulous QoE Stephanie before I ran off to Dundee for the summer, but realise I never posted pix. Here’s a small selection (so hard to choose). It moves from the more familiar mode of abstract psychic phenomenon to the direct from nature renderings (with…
Out Now: Hope Magic
MEANS MAGAZINE 3 Hope Magic Join a global array of grassroots and experimental writers, musicians and artists as they explore tactics for finding hope in a hopeless world. This issue includes: Amy Jackson: Twitter / Pocket ConjurationsLala Lotos: The Soul of Stones (art-making in war-torn Ukraine)Klaus Von Mork: Sigils, Manifestation, and Chaos Magic in Art…
Ithell @ Tate
I usually manage to get a snap of the poster for an exhibition and somehow I managed to miss doing that. It was probably the decision to stop at the White Swan and have a nice burger and a pint of Guinness. I even watched the cricket (my sweetie would approve). Another hot day in…
Kantele in AMP
I’m delighted to be part of the latest issue of the American Museum of Paramusicology’s journal writing about the mythical harp of Finland, the kantele. I’m always happy to take any chance to talk about the beauty of this traditional lap harp and its legendary beginnings as the jawbone of a pike. But wait —…
Get Some Magic: Cronework CD
My contributor copy arrived of the very cool CRONEWORK cd from FU&Yr A-Sides and Difficult Art & Music. Wow, it’s a terrific collection and no, I’m not just saying that because I’m on it. It offers a real range of music all tied together with the theme so these are magical works that engage with…
Cronework: Out now!
CRONEWORK! Out for Beltane! Cronework – Re-enchanting the label: A compilation of spells by self-identified women and gender-diverse artists. You get 5 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released. “It is to the discovery…