Fellow artists and friends Angel Garcia and Samantha Rehark together developed a project that dovetails tarot and tattoos based on a natural, conceptual similarity between the two practices: the act of trust.
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Salvador Dalí’s Tarot Cards Will Tell Your Surreal Future
The deck was originally created for the 1970s James Bond film Live and Let Die, starring Roger Moore and Jane Seymour, but it never appeared in the picture.
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An Artist-Designed Tarot Deck Interprets the Catastrophes of Hurricane Maria
Puerto Rican artist Jo Cosme made a deck of tarot cards documenting the pain, decimation, and lack of support post-Maria.
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Artists Teach You How To Make Collaborative Drawings, DIY Reliquaries, Read Tarot, and More
The third edition of the omnivorous BombPop!Up series of workshops and performances takes over the National Academy of Design.
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The Persistence of DNA: Test Shows Dalí Wasn’t Tarot Card Reader’s Father
The results of a paternity test carried out after the artist’s remains were exhumed in July show that María Pilar Abel Martínez is not his daughter.
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What Does a Black Radical Art Education Look Like?
The Black School talks to Hyperallergic about the role of radical Black education and the “Black art world,” in a special interview that comes on the heels of their residency and exhibition at New York’s New Museum.
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The Unsung Woman Artist Behind Your Tarot Cards
In 1909, Pamela Colman Smith collaborated with occultist A. E. Waite on the most popular tarot deck of the 20th century.
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How a Tarot Reading Helped Me Talk About Climate Change
From headlines on ice cap conditions to research on biodiversity loss to terrifying descriptions of earthquakes yet to occur, the stories on climate change that reach us daily simply overwhelm.
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An Artist Couple’s Collaborations Have Chemistry, but No Alchemy
The poet and filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky and his wife, the artist Pascale Montandon-Jodorowsky, make bright and fantastical works together under the moniker pascALEjandro.
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Insightful and Laugh-Out-Loud Funny Reports From NY Fairs
Volta was hot, sticky, and crowded. Independent might make you swoon. One visitor calls Art on Paper “more real.”
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The Cop-Attacking Chilean Dog Who Became a Worldwide Symbol of Protest
The recent uprising in Chile is full of references to the beloved Negro Matapacos, who accompanied protesters for many years. As his legend spreads, so too do images of the good boy.
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El Museo del Barrio Cancels Alejandro Jodorowsky Retrospective In Light of 1970s Rape Admission
Jodorowsky admitted to sexually violating an actress while producing his 1970 film El Topo.
