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…
Tag: photography
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…
Forecast Review!
MIDBROW 30 Artists Explore Divination Nadine Nelson’s installation for Forecast: Reading the Signs — running now in the upper gallery at the Institute Library through March 28 — is a sunny nook in the middle of the art show: two cozy chairs in the window, a snug table filled with intriguing objects, among them a deck of…
Dundee, Palestine, Crows, and the Tay
Begin as you mean to go on, as we always say, but it’s often easier said than done. As I listen to Jim Reid sing of ‘Grizzel Jaffray’ from his Emfae Dundee CD it’s easy to feel too far from the comforts of Scotland. It doesn’t help that it remains arctic in New York with…
Reading into the New Year
I’ve been doing a lot of reading since I got here before Xmas and I wanted to try to keep track of as much as I can. A few books were waiting for me: some because shipping to the US was too much especially for contributor’s copies (why punish the publishers?). So very happily reading…