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Spiritualism

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Spiritual Art Is Back, Again

Avatar photo by Lisa Slominski February 26, 2023February 24, 2023

Contemporary artists are looking to spiritual and divination systems to address today’s power structures.

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Dead People Prefer Photography, Apparently

by Sarah Rose Sharp October 31, 2022November 8, 2022

Shannon Taggart’s book SÈANCE pictures the supernatural occurrences in the lives of Spiritualists, seekers, mediums, and other occult practitioners.

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Awakened by Matthew Thomas’s Spiritual Abstractions

Avatar photo by Allison Conner March 13, 2022March 11, 2022

By sharing his particular visual language, Thomas hopes to trigger our own connection to the divine.

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Hilma af Klint Gets an Exquisite Seven-Volume Catalogue Raisonné

Avatar photo by Bridget Quinn August 25, 2021August 25, 2021

The latest volume of af Klint’s catalogue raisonné reveals the artist exploring the spiritual world with quasi-scientific deliberation.

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Paulina Peavy, the Spiritualist Artist Who Channeled a UFO

Avatar photo by Natalie Haddad July 14, 2021July 15, 2021

Through her encounters with the spirit Lacamo, Peavy developed a cosmology based on 12,000-year cycles of evolution.

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Turning to Art for Spiritual Sustenance

Avatar photo by Jennifer Remenchik August 5, 2020November 5, 2020

“A lot of people have been turning to art, needing space to process,” says the artist Edgar Fabián Frías, who, along with Hayley Barker, Julie Weitz, and Patrisse Cullors, has been discussing their art as spiritual practice.

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A Photographer’s 16-Year Project to Capture the Contemporary Séance

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 17, 2017March 20, 2017

Shannon Taggart started photographing the mediums of Lily Dale in 2001, and for 16 years after has documented the séances and practices of modern Spiritualism.

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19th-Century Portraits of Historical Figures, Guided by Their Spirits

by Claire Voon October 28, 2016

An American artist couple known as Wella P. and L. Pet Anderson made sketches of the dead that drew inspiration not from photographs or other visual records but from supposed communication with the departed themselves.

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