Category Archives: Outriders
The rose and the bomb
Weimar Berlin, the soft opening: the debut of Anita Berber and Valeska Gert, 100 years ago today
The rose and the bomb
Weimar Berlin, the soft opening: the debut of Anita Berber and Valeska Gert, 100 years ago today
Places: Isadora and Raymond Duncan Dance Research Center
The siblings travel to Athens in search of the glory that was (and is) Greece
Places: Isadora and Raymond Duncan Dance Research Center
The siblings travel to Athens in search of the glory that was (and is) Greece
Places: Casa Grande
100 years since the death of artist and lifestyle pioneer Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach
Places: Casa Grande
100 years since the death of artist and lifestyle pioneer Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach
Omega Workshops | designs
Roger Fry’s design team reimagined the everyday objects around us.
Places: Théâtre des Champs-Elysées
The centenary of a Parisian instution and its most famous performance…
Places: Théâtre des Champs-Elysées
The centenary of a Parisian instution and its most famous performance…
Dress-down Friday: Valeska Gert
Gert was pathologically unable to conform to any larger social grouping than that found within her own eccentric outfits.
Dress-down Friday: Valeska Gert
Gert was pathologically unable to conform to any larger social grouping than that found within her own eccentric outfits.
Dress-down Friday: Dorelia McNeill
“Dorelia and Augustus were seen as representing the principle of living through your ideas, not merely conveying them to canvas or on paper.”
Dress-down Friday: Dorelia McNeill
“Dorelia and Augustus were seen as representing the principle of living through your ideas, not merely conveying them to canvas or on paper.”
Georgina Berkeley | photomontage
This English noblewoman’s methods of incorporating fragments of photographs into beguilingly strange compositions, which she practised around the late 1860s, prefigured Surrealist collage by about 60 years.
Georgina Berkeley | photomontage
This English noblewoman’s methods of incorporating fragments of photographs into beguilingly strange compositions, which she practised around the late 1860s, prefigured Surrealist collage by about 60 years.
Aimless Walk
Alexander Hammid’s film follows an unidentified man through Prague, although the camera is largely disengaged from the expected multitudes and monuments, instead following this enigmatic flaneur to the liminal spaces of the city.
Aimless Walk
Alexander Hammid’s film follows an unidentified man through Prague, although the camera is largely disengaged from the expected multitudes and monuments, instead following this enigmatic flaneur to the liminal spaces of the city.
Dress-down Friday: Gusto Gräser
Gräser’s idealism, ascetic lifestyle and incessant wanderings bring to mind a Herman Hesse character. And little wonder; Hesse was one of Gräser’s followers and worked both the personality and teachings of his guru through several of his books.
Dress-down Friday: Gusto Gräser
Gräser’s idealism, ascetic lifestyle and incessant wanderings bring to mind a Herman Hesse character. And little wonder; Hesse was one of Gräser’s followers and worked both the personality and teachings of his guru through several of his books.
Lichtspiel
It was a meeting with French Dadaist Philippe Soupault in Berlin’s Romanisches Café in the early 1920s which helped Walter Ruttmann synthesize art and music into cinema.
Lichtspiel
It was a meeting with French Dadaist Philippe Soupault in Berlin’s Romanisches Café in the early 1920s which helped Walter Ruttmann synthesize art and music into cinema.
Alfred Jarry, fixie pioneer
“Rather more than a simple vehicle, the writing machine was powered by human musculature and fueled by alcohols.”
Alfred Jarry, fixie pioneer
“Rather more than a simple vehicle, the writing machine was powered by human musculature and fueled by alcohols.”
Spectres of Artaud
As with the Reina Sofia’s Roussel survey, ‘Spectres of Artaud. Language and the Arts around 1952’ acknowledges a figure whose influence ranged far beyond the literary, reaching into performance, music, visual arts and cinema.
Spectres of Artaud
As with the Reina Sofia’s Roussel survey, ‘Spectres of Artaud. Language and the Arts around 1952’ acknowledges a figure whose influence ranged far beyond the literary, reaching into performance, music, visual arts and cinema.
Franziska zu Reventlow | artworks
The fragments of her artistic output which survive are a modest yet intriguing glimpse into a highly unconventional life.
Franziska zu Reventlow | artworks
The fragments of her artistic output which survive are a modest yet intriguing glimpse into a highly unconventional life.
Pearls: Arthur Rimbaud
“Let strange flowers burst forth…”
Scenes from a pataphysical life
“Depending on one’s tastes, inclinations, and social situation, the 1890s were either the Belle Époque, a virile culmination of French culture promising a yet more glorious future; or the fin-de-siècle, the last gasp of an enfeebled civilization on the verge of extinction.”
Scenes from a pataphysical life
“Depending on one’s tastes, inclinations, and social situation, the 1890s were either the Belle Époque, a virile culmination of French culture promising a yet more glorious future; or the fin-de-siècle, the last gasp of an enfeebled civilization on the verge of extinction.”
Hester’s last ride
“The young missionary took a wrong turn in the dim light…The first thing he saw was a pile of bones with a skull on top, a lighted taper flickering through each eye socket, grinning at him amidst the shadows of plants and trees…”
Hester’s last ride
“The young missionary took a wrong turn in the dim light…The first thing he saw was a pile of bones with a skull on top, a lighted taper flickering through each eye socket, grinning at him amidst the shadows of plants and trees…”
Strange Flowers 