Art and Design

A loose and improvisatory conversation about art, inspiration, and visionary experience.

"In 2019, two remarkable photography books appeared, both of which document, in an appropriately twisty fashion, the California of the late 60s and 1970s."

Turk presents the viewer with mandalas, strange creatures, and biological cosmograms that depict mutant metamorphoses of animal, human, plant, and god.

"The garden of forking paths is really a one-way labyrinth, a plunge into a single conundrum that is swallowing us up."

Less eye candy than mind map, ‘Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia’ manages to radically reframe a period of creative ferment that remains weakly understood and remembered within the histories of art and design.

Mark Leckey wants to invoke the spectral and increasingly animated correspondences between beasts, machines, and the human bodymind.

HFT The Gardener extends Suzanne Treister’s impish fascination with esoteric translation, the cybernetics of consciousness, and the hallucinatory aesthetics that radiate from real-world circulations of power.

A look at the art and spiritual struggle of the great psychedelic poster artist.

Rick Griffin finds the Lord.

Magnificent underground esoteric temples

The sights and sounds of American baptism.

A wondrous artist book by the mushroom bard's daughter, the photographer Klea McKenna

The roots of touristic desire.

A look at a metapoetic oracle deck from British Columbia's elvish nation.