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The Satanic Flea Market Celebrates The Rites of Spring

The alternative market place for occultists, goths, kinksters, creatives and eccentrics – returns to London.

Beyond Gobbledegook: Alchemy, Biopunk And Witchcraft

The Museum of Witchcraft and Magic’s new exhibition is a fascinating subject drowned in pretentious academic description.

Burtynsky: Extraction/Abstraction And The Unsettling Beauty Of Destruction

A new exhibition of the photographer’s work shows images of an industrial world and its effects that we can hardly recognise or believe could be real.

The Eccentric And Offensive World Of Vintage Valentine Cards

The cute, suggestive, outrageous and morally unacceptable world of yesteryear’s romantic gestures.

Australian Rules: The Persecution Of The Witch Of Kings Cross

What comes through loud and clear in the story of artist and alleged witch Rosaleen Norton is the ferocity of Australian censorship in the 1950s and 60s.

Massive Twits: Performative Outrage Over ‘Rude’ Art

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An outraged mother tries to preserve her son’s innocence by making him pose next the ‘offensive’ artwork that allegedly ‘ruined his childhood’.

Dali’s Destino – The Last Great Disney Film

The unlikely collaboration between two of the 20th century’s iconic artists that took fifty years to complete.

Salvation Magazine Returns

The second issue of Nigel Wingrove’s alternative culture tabloid is finally available.

The Lost Art Of Lux Interior

A collection of paintings from a pre-Cramps Erick Lee Purkhiser that was sold off in 2009 by his estranged son.

Open Wide For The Vibrating Tarot

The classic Tarot card deck of Pamela Colman Smith is re-imagined with outlandish and exotic sex toy inserts.

Comic Books Espana

An impressive catalogue of graphic novels from Barcelona.

The Double Life Of Oliver Frey

The artist responsible for some of the most iconic magazine cover art of the 1980s was also a prolific illustrator of sexually explicit comic strips.