Author: Paul Gallagher

Scene: A suite at the St. Regis Hotel, New York City, 1938. The floor is knee-deep in coils of highly flammable nitrate film. It sprawls…

‘Is that a balloon in your hand or, are you just pleased to see me?’ Last Christmas, I gave you a selection of women posing…

Satan’s Muses Don’t know much about art history. Don’t know much about graphology. Don’t know much about comic books. Don’t know much about the way…

It’s almost the Holidays. That cheery time of year when tempers are short and credit cards are maxed out. When the office party ends with…

(You can find several porn parody posters from the “Golden Age of XXX” like the ones in this post at The Westgate Gallery online, now…

Christmas 1965, Paul McCartney secretly recorded an “album” at his home in London as a present for his fellow bandmates John, George, and Ringo. There…

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…