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…
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Tarot Cultures
Let me first say that Tarot Cultures was fantastic. Jess, Helen, James, and Vana not only had the daunting task of wrangling an international conference of folks coming from all over the globe, but due to a strike action and a refusal to cross the picket line (solidarity!) they had to move the entire thing…
Review: Savage House
Wondering where to begin in recapping my travels — this past week has been a WHIRL of course — The Fall: Futures and Pasts was amazing and Tarot Cultures was magical and then there was more Leonora (even more than expected!) and friends and good meals and so much — so I need to get…
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…
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…
ISSS Glasgow
I am delighted to get an acceptance to the next International Society for the Study of Surrealism conference which will be in Glasgow this August. By no means a sure thing as the competition only increases as the world gets more and more surreal! Of course this is a little easier to attend than some…
Bridging the Invisible
I could not be more delighted to be part of the Creative Practices and Bridging the Invisible conference wrangled by Heather D. Freeman for 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…
Stars & Screen Virtual Symposium
‘Stars & Screen’ Cinema & Media History Virtual Symposium | May 16, 2026 Next Saturday! You can find the whole program on line here and you can attend by RSVPing on the page. Here’s my subject (though I’ve only got 15 minutes so it may be a little bare bones): Haunted: Where Gothic Bleeds into…
Losing My Religion
It being Sid James’ birthday today, here’s a little story I wrote some years back under another moniker (recently booted from his Twitter account, I find, having forgotten there was one). Like a lot of my Graham Wynd stories it’s a bit of crime and a bit of a laugh and you don’t have to…
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…