The archives of post-war English surrealism in my living room

Ted Joans and Dorothea Tanning at the Pompidou

Here is a throwback to an exhibition I curated some months ago, when I had forgotten Bluesky existed.

It was called « Psychic Topographies » and took place at Profil Galerie, Paris.

www.contemporaryartlibrary.org/project/psyc...

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The visuality of the French parliament is weirdly incongruous, like the Janus that adorns the speaker’s podium that often denotes deception and untruths, this face looking out from within a face, and also these cool Pierre Alechinsky and Jean Tardieu crayon walls

Rather than turkey and that, this year for Xmas dinner consumed various crustaceans and gastropods

Here is a link to the article:

muse.jhu.edu/article/947733

The article is the critical counterpart to the book I published in 2023 titled « New Forms of Art and Contagious Mental Illness » - the book can be viewed here: new-documents.org/books/new-fo...

After much digging in archives in Scandinavia, my article on how modernist art and literature has sent you all insane is in the new issue of @mmodernity.bsky.social

It is called: « A Contagious Ophthalmic Psychosis: Carl Julius Salomonsen and the Epidemic of Artistic Modernism in Europe, 1919–20 »

Screaming objects at the Halle Saint Pierre

Some light encouragement on the last day of semester

Down to business

Office with a view

The most terrible thing about living in France is that they’ve never heard of orange cordial

Some bottled dodo remnants

A hidden wall of Leonor Finis

One for the modernism heads out there

Does anybody need a copy of « Da Vinci Code » by Dan Brown, possibly in the original English though possibly not?