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MANNERIST GARDEN: Dreams, Spirits and Sacred Wood

The Garden of Bomarzo…. The artists that the garden has inspired include Niki de Saint Phalle  and the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dali, who incorporated some of its images into his paintings and who was once photographed holding a candle and … Continue reading

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GARDEN OF EARTHLY FRIGHTS: Mannerist Playground

Despite a lack of evidence, one local tale was that Vicino Orsini was a hunchback who created a garden of monsters in order to persuade his wife, Julia Farnese, that deformity held its own mysterious principles of delight. …Over four … Continue reading

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SOUL ALCHEMISTS:INSTANT KARMA SPACE ODYSSEY

Instant karma’s gonna get you, Gonna knock you right on the head: You better get yourself together, Pretty soon you’re gonna be dead. What in the world are you thinking of? Laughing in the face of love! What on earth … Continue reading

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MONDRIAN: THEOSOPHICALLY PAINTING THE GOLDEN CALF

Art for Piet Mondrian( 1872-1944) was a cultural product and a cultural weapon, a privileged instrument for the construction of an urban and, in the best sense of the word, artificial order. Yet Mondrian’s perception of the world, no matter … Continue reading

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WHEN MEMORIES WERE CHEAP LIKE BORSCHT

”Let them eat caviar” supposedly said by Czar Nicholas II upon learning that the peasants were starving. Although there is no record of these words ever having been uttered, it is plausible that he could say them…. Many nefarious claims … Continue reading

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FAITH HEALERS AND TOUCHY-FEELERS

Russians have always had a centuries-long passion for the occult, and in times of social and political change  the paranormal mushroomed, with all manner of psychics, wizards and sorcerers popping up to offer so-called “magical services”, on a much grander, … Continue reading

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DIE HARD: BRINGING DOWN THE MIDNIGHT RAMBLER

Marjorie Perloff  has described how “Wittgenstein’s language games have provided models for poetic composition,” and concluded that, for him “the ‘ordinary’ . . . turns out to be, after all, capable of being seen as the ‘aesthetic’” With regard to … Continue reading

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