Author: Paul Gallagher Archives: 11/2017

In 1907, the artist and occultist Austin Osman Spare published his second volume of illustrations, A Book of Satyrs–or rather satires. Spare believed the word…

I spent my teens living in Edinburgh. At weekends, I avoided people, spent my time wandering around the city taking photographs of the expected fare:…

Last year, I was very fortunate to see an early cut of Rupert Russell’s documentary on the rise of fake democracy Freedom of the Wolf,…

‘Columbus Circle, Manhattan.’ Berenice Abbott was born in Springfield, Ohio, in July 1898. Springfield the “Home City” then best known for its Masonic Lodges and…

Apparently, Donald Trump has unwittingly produced a book of poetry. Not just your run-of-the-mill rhyming couplets or iambic pentameter, but short sentences artfully clipped from…

‘Red Alert.’ You may have heard of Postman Pat or rather, “Postman Pat, Postman Pat, Postman Pat and his black and white cat.” If you…

How to stay relevant. It’s a question we all face at some point in life. Mick Jagger was thinking about staying relevant. It was 1983.…

‘Bury Death on a Full Moon.’ Artist Matt Crabe is one helluva prolific guy. He makes paintings, prints, drawings, ‘zines, books, pins, death threats, t-shirts,…

This month, publisher Taschen is following up on its successful re-publication of Salvador Dalí’s Les Dîners de Gala with his long out-of-print companion volumeThe Wines…

Elliott Gould as Philip Marlowe in Robert Altman’s film version of Raymond Chandler’s ‘The Long Goodbye.’ Raymond Chandler wanted to call his second Philip Marlowe…