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The Black Goat
https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2026/05/25/the-black-goat/
Published: May 25, 2026 15:30
I found time recently to finish another picture for the revised edition of my Lovecraft book, a picture which I almost completed several months ago then had to set aside. Last year’s steady progress on the book’s production was brought to a halt in…
Weekend links 831
https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2026/05/23/weekend-links-831/
Published: May 23, 2026 18:00
Black Hole Accretion Disk Visualization by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman. • The summer catalogue of lots for the After Dark: Gay Art and Culture online auction. Homoerotic art, photos, historic porn, etc. • New music: The Sanctity Of…
Gilgamesh, a film by Pavel Aujezdský
https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2026/05/20/gilgamesh-a-film-by-pavel-aujezdsky/
Published: May 20, 2026 15:30
The Epic of Gilgamesh isn’t a natural choice for the subject of a short animated film, but that’s what we have here, the first directorial effort by Czech film-maker and TV director Pavel Aujezdský. I’ve never read the Sumerian saga so I’m in no position…
Icarus Descending
https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2026/05/18/icarus-descending/
Published: May 18, 2026 15:30
UK, 2009. Newton leaned forward, putting his elbows carefully on the table. “Nathan. Nathan. I was afraid of you then. I am afraid now. I have been afraid of all manner of things every moment I have spent on this planet, on this monstrous, beautiful,…
Weekend links 830
https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2026/05/16/weekend-links-830/
Published: May 16, 2026 18:00
Plakat Secesyjny (1971), a poster by Hubert Hilscher for an exhibition of Art Nouveau graphics. • At Public Domain Review: Longitude by Way of Wounded Hounds: Kenelm Digby’s Sympathetick Powder (1669 edition). Two subjects familiar to readers of Thomas…
The Sound of Claudia Schiffer
https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2026/05/13/the-sound-of-claudia-schiffer/
Published: May 13, 2026 15:30
A minor entry in the Nicolas Roeg filmography that few people will have seen. In March 2001 the BBC broadcast four 15-minute films that the corporation had commissioned for an occasional arts strand, Sound on Film. Each episode featured a new piece of…
Roeg abroad
https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2026/05/11/roeg-abroad/
Published: May 11, 2026 15:30
Japan, 1998. I’m currently in the middle of a Nicolas Roeg rewatch season after acquiring a blu-ray of the recently reissued Castaway, Roeg’s 1986 adaptation of Lucy Irvine’s memoir (which shouldn’t be confused with 2000’s Cast Away). In the early 1980s…
Weekend links 829
https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2026/05/09/weekend-links-829/
Published: May 9, 2026 18:00
In the Constellation of Pisces by Adolf Hoffmeister. • “Comb through many of the numerous ‘greatest post-punk albums of all time’ lists that you’ll find dotted around the internet and one fairly continual omission is Thirst, which is something of a…
Léon Carré’s In the Garden of Gems
https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2026/05/06/leon-carres-in-the-garden-of-gems/
Published: May 6, 2026 15:30
Léonard Rosenthal’s follow-up to In the Kingdom of the Pearl was this volume with illustrations by Léon Carré. In the Garden of Gems was published in 1924 in an edition that matches the earlier book for page layout, print quality and decoration. The…
Edmund Dulac’s In the Kingdom of the Pearl
https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2026/05/04/edmund-dulacs-in-the-kingdom-of-the-pearl/
Published: May 4, 2026 15:30
An unusual commission for Edmund Dulac, being a work of non-fiction published in France in 1920, with a British edition following in the same year. The author, Léonard Rosenthal, was a French diamond merchant who wrote a handful of books intended to…
Weekend links 828
https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2026/05/02/weekend-links-828/
Published: May 2, 2026 18:00
Visitation (1976) by Gilbert Williams. • “It’s the perfect storm of a UFO case.” Daniel Lavelle explores the Rendlesham Forest mystery of 1980, Britain’s own answer to the Roswell Incident. The case has more substantial documentation than most close…