Tarot by Walter Wegmüller is one of those wonderful, dotty follies of vinyl packaging that transcend normal expectations with bravura wackiness. Released on the Cosmic Couriers label ((Die Kosmischen Kuriere, for those who do Deutsch) in 1973, it hovers near the very peak of my LP Grail list. I’ve never held a copy, never […]
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[Art] 365 Days Of Dark Art : 187 / Mariano Barbasán Lagueruela — Wyrd Words & Effigies
Caught up in Mariano Barbasán Lagueruela‘s Walpurgis Night.
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[Art] Flag on Orange Field — Jasper Johns — Biblioklept
[Art] Jan Vermeer: A World of Tranquillity and Silence — Byron’s muse
Dear readers, you’re about to enter a world of tranquillity, silence and mystery, the world of Jan Vermeer; the master of light and the master of colour blue, the artist loved by Marcel Proust, the artist forgotten for three long centuries and then rediscovered in the mid 19th century, and above all – a painter […]
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[Art] Man Lying with Branch — Anselm Kiefer — Biblioklept
[Literature/Art] From ancient Persian poetry rises ‘Feathers of Fire,’ billed as largest shadow-theater play

This looks thoroughly fascinating. Shadow puppeteer Hamid Rahmanian has a new project called “Feathers of Fire,” which is based on the Persian epic, the Shahnameh.
[Literature/Art] Alvin Langdon Coburn: Vortograph of Ezra Pound (1917)

Love him or hate him (and I love his work), Ezra Pound turned literature on its head for most of the first half of the 20th Century. Here he is as a model for an experimental photograph by Alvin Langdon Coburn.
[Art] Allegory of Christianity (detail) — Jan Provoost — Biblioklept
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Biblioklept should be mandatory reading for fans of art.







