Occult

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Wicked! Modern Art’s Interest in the Occult

Contemporary art’s resurgence of interest in magic has a powerful art-historical precedent

BY Caroline Marciniak |
Culture Digest
An Occult Art History of the American West

A new book charts Theosophy’s influence on Western modernism

BY Figgy Guyver |
Opinion
Spells in the Present Tense and the Transformative Power of the Occult

An event at Somerset House to launch Ignota Press’ first book, the anthology: Spells: 21st-Century Occult Poetry

BY Philomena Epps |
Interviews
How Jack Parsons Laid the Foundations for Space Travel

Author George Pendle on his biography of Jack Parsons, the scientist, mysticist and follower of Aleister Crowley, now dramatized on CBS

BY Dan Fox |
Frieze
Toby Kamps on the many art worlds of ‘Spotlight’

The curator talks through the themes and ambitions of Spotlight at Frieze New York 2018, and two magical figures featured in it: Cameron and Mestre Didi

Culture Digest
Weekend Reading List

From spooky computers to coded manuscripts: what to read this weekend.

BY Paul Clinton |
Reviews
Rosalind Brodsky Finds Herself Under the Hexen’s Spell

At CHELSEA Space gallery, Suzanne Treister’s alter ego delves into the murky world of the occult

BY Jonathan Griffin |