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Postcard of manipulated photograph titled “Snow ghosts in the forest,” Switzerland, 1931 (all images courtesy Tony Oursler’s personal archive) (click to enlarge) The first paragraph of Lev Manovich’s groundbreaking essay, “Database as Symbolic Form...

LONDON — The Serpentine Gallery is currently exhibiting the work of Swedish artist and mystic Hilma af Klint (1862 -1944). Over her career, af Klint painted nearly 1200 works, at least 200 of which were created during trance rituals and inspired by her...

Who? A female painter, a pioneer of abstract art, a spiritualist and a dedicated believer in the occult: Swedish artist Hilma af Klint was nothing if not before her time. To the outside world, she spent her life creating a series of unexciting portrait...

There is a beguiling tradition of commingling spiritualism and art, exemplified by the words and works left behind by abstract painters Hilma af Klint and Wassily Kandinsky. Here, from the latter: “The true work of art is born from the ‘artist’: a mysterious...

music, film, art and books of 2016 with yet another year of treachery from police, politicians and terrorists (foreign and domestic), it was comforting to have some bits of pleasure here and there to remind us that there is still some beauty in this...