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The Greenwood Faun

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Published: August 12, 2026 15:30

Arthur Machen isn’t usually considered to be a Decadent author even though it was in the Mauve Decade of the 1890s that he first established himself as a writer. Machen knew Oscar Wilde well enough to recount an anecdote in later life, and two of Machen’s…

“A Love Vision”: Kenneth Anger in 1967

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Published: August 10, 2026 15:30

San Francisco Oracle, Vol. 1 No. 7, February 1967. In his later years Kenneth Anger often seemed to spend more time giving interviews than making films, even though he was keeping busy when out of the public eye. Most of the discussions cover familiar…

Weekend links 842

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Published: August 8, 2026 18:00

An illustration by Charles Keeping for The Golden Shadow. • At the BFI: Alex Ramon selects 10 great British TV shows of 1976. (And 50 years ago the American term “shows” was most often applied to the variety format. We would have called these…

BWS and REH

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Published: August 5, 2026 15:30

Since Barry Windsor-Smith was absent from the previous post (or there in spirit via the pages of The Studio) I thought I’d post a few of his prints from the mid-70s. As I said in the Snaps piece, Smith and co. set up The Studio in order to concentrate on…

Snaps: The Studio tour, 1979

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Published: August 3, 2026 15:30

I’d been hoping that Malcolm Whitehead’s Snaps might be made public eventually, and here it is, a 25-minute film documenting the northern end of a British book-signing tour undertaken by three artists and their publisher in October 1979. Not only that,…

Weekend links 841

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Published: August 1, 2026 18:00

Drawing Hands (1948) by MC Escher. • New music: The World In Layers by mōshonsensu; The Rest Is My Ghost by Lawrence English; Rotostyles by Julien Ash & M.Nomized. • At Public Domain Review: “The Persian Mâr-Nâmeh or, The Book for Taking Omens from Snakes”…

Leonor Fini, a film by Yvan Butler

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Published: July 29, 2026 15:30

As an artist, Leonor Fini has never received as much attention as her contemporary and near namesake Leonora Carrington but this didn’t stop film-makers calling at Fini’s door in later life. The best of the ones I’ve seen to date (and probably the best of…

Lovecraft’s Brood

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Published: July 27, 2026 15:30

It’s that man again, or some of his progeny, infecting the world with their nightmares. Lovecraft’s Brood is a story collection edited by Ellen Datlow, a kind of follow-up to Lovecraft’s Monsters, although the new book is a more expansive take on the…

Weekend links 840

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Published: July 25, 2026 18:00

The Toad of Maldoror (1932) by Valentine Hugo. • Old music: Thank You America (John Robie Dub Mix) by Cabaret Voltaire. Code, the group’s 1987 debut for the Parlophone label, receives an overdue reissue later this year with a substantial collection of…

Cornell, 1965

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Published: July 22, 2026 15:30

It’s the magus of Utopia Parkway again. As the title suggests, Cornell, 1965 was shot in the 1960s, although the footage wasn’t assembled as a film until 1978 when director Lawrence Jordan added his narration and a Debussy soundtrack. Jordan had been…