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…

Nephomancy

Happy Walpurgisnacht — or Vappu or whatever you celebrate on the eve of May Day or Beltane. I am sharing my short film Nephomancy as it has been through the festival circuit and now will join the other hauntings that eminate from Hookland, its inspiration. Witches see portents in all things — the world is…

Leonor Fini – Menagerie

The video is age-restricted because there are breasts and sexual situations — it’s Fini after all. Click the link to open it if you dare! Ha. The Olney Gleason Gallery is where the Kasmin Gallery used to be (same people? Different? Doesn’t look too different. Their description also mentions future exhibits which I probably noted…

Art x Fashion

Also in the recent jaunt to NYC, a stop at the Museum @ FIT for ‘Art x Fashion’ a glimpse of how art and fashion have intertwined all the time for mutual benefit and dissection. I wanted more but that’s probably my problem. I ended up making a video visit because there was just so…

Mystery & Wonder

I made a quick jaunt down to the city which had two drawbacks immediately: 1) I was not meeting up with my partner in art crimes, Stephanie QoE and 2) it was unseasonably hot and how I hate that. Nevertheless, she persisted as one exhibit I quite wanted to see closes this weekend. First stop…

Pop Magic

I have not been to the Atlanta Marriott Marquis for a long time but it retains memories of both PCA and DragonCon from way back in the day, so many varied memories resurfacing through the hectic days which were marvellous! Great fun with Miss Wendy and old friends like Frenchy and Carol, and such terrific…

Bright Futures

A slim doorway between Tattoos and The Devil’s Spoke opens to the Institute Library, just off the green in New Haven. The closing event for FORECAST was a blast and a great chance to explore the library as well as get a good last look at the wonders of the exhibition. You can read about…

Swedenborg House: Elective Affinities

SWEDENBORG HOUSE, LONDON Taking inspiration from the term coined in early chemistry, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s 1809 novel, and a celebrated painting by René Magritte, Elective Affinities explores the mysterious connection between objects, ideas and inner experience. At its core lies the thought of Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772), whose philosophy of correspondences proposed a resonance between objects, places…