Tag Archives: modern art

What’s Wrong with the Arts?

Charles Krafft

5,798 words

Editor’s note: The following is the transcript of Charles Krafft’s speech at the Inaugural Meeting of the Northwest Forum in Seattle on November 12, 2016. Read more …

Published: August 13, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged abstract expressionism, art, Charles Krafft, CIA, Counter-Currents Radio, Frankfurt School, podcasts, political correctness, spirit cooking, the arts, The Northwest Forum, transcripts | 6 Responses

A Flash of Dissident Genius in Estonia

Anton

The Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM), Tallin, Estonia

1,615 words

When You Say
We Belong to the Light
We Belong to the Thunder

July–October 2019

First of all, the actual building and location of the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia has a great, youthful, Do-It-Yourself aesthetic. It’s informally known as the EKKM (cool). Its entrance is a dirt trail (keeps the art snobs away). It’s located in a small cluster of falling down Communist-era factory buildings (awesome). Read more …

Published: October 4, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Anton, art criticism, articles, Estonia, exhibition reviews, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, travel journals | 7 Responses

Remembering Filippo Marinetti:
December 22, 1876–December 2, 1944

Marinetti in the First World War.

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1. Marinetti’s own “Futurist Manifesto” of 1909.

2. Kerry Bolton’s essay “Filippo Marinetti,” which has also been published in his book Artists of the Right: Resisting Decadence. (Portuguese translation here.)

Published: December 22, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged art, articles, commemorations, fascism, Filippo Marinetti, futurism, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals | Leave a comment

Listen to “Guide to Kulchur (guest: John Morgan) – episode 2, The Square” on Spreaker.

Guide to Kulchur
Episode 2: The Square

Counter-Currents Radio

82 words / 76:10

Counter-Currents Book Editor John Morgan joins Fróði Midjord on the new podcast series, Guide to Kulchur, to discuss The Square, a recent Swedish film (available in English) which mocks and critiques the intensely politically-correct culture of modern-day Sweden. The film depicts the director of a modern art museum in Stockholm whose pride in his liberal beliefs is challenged when his wallet and phone are stolen, and he is forced to venture into an immigrant area in order to attempt to retrieve them.

Published: November 20, 2018 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Counter-Currents Radio, Frodi Midjord, Guide to Kulchur, John Morgan, political correctness, Sweden | 10 Responses

Australian Artists of the Right, Part I
Lionel Lindsay

Kerry Bolton

Lionel Lindsay

5,188 words

Background: Australianity

Nietzsche was a seminal influence on the brothers Norman and Lionel Lindsay, as he was on many other contemporary aesthetes, artists, and literati of the Right, including their fellow Australian, P. R. Stephensen, who was cured of his Communism at Oxford by the Philosopher.[1] When Stephensen returned to Australia, after a publishing venture in Britain, he did so as an avid Australian nationalist, and soon as an “Australian National Socialist,” Read more …

Published: November 14, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Australia, Australian Artists of the Right, cultural decline, Kerry Bolton, modernism, North American New Right, originals, P. R. Stephensen | 7 Responses

Reassessing Otto Dix

Otto Dix, Self-Portrait with My Son

2,221 words

Otto Dix was a German artist who is now celebrated as one of the great painters of the twentieth century, probably in no small part because he was put on the National Socialists’ list of degenerate artists, as, to the unthinking postmodern Left, anything the National Socialists hated is automatically considered good. Equally though, the postmodern cultureless cartoon Nazis of today’s corrupted Right consider him a degenerate artist also simply because his artworks were deemed Entartete Kunst by the NSDAP. Read more …

Published: June 6, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-Semitism, articles, David Yorkshire, degenerate art, German art, Mjolnir Magazine, North American New Right, painting, reprints, Third Reich, Weimar Republic | 7 Responses

Vivisecting the Femiblob, Part Two

P. T. O'Talryn

3,695 words

Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)

The Advantage of the Other

In 1683 the troops of the Ottoman Empire marched to the gates of Vienna, in the very heart of Europe. Their intention was clear: sack the city, rape and kill the inhabitants, and use it as a staging base for their expansion into the rest of Christendom. Although the Poles under John III Sobieski saved the day, Read more …

Published: June 30, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alt-Right, Christianity, cultural Marxism, Friedrich Schiller, H. R. Giger, liberalism, modernity, North American New Right, originals, P. T. O'Talryn, Salvador Dalí | 11 Responses

Vivisecting the Femiblob, Part One

P. T. O'Talryn

3,264 words

Part 1 of 2

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
–1 Timothy 6:10 (KJV) Read more …

Published: June 29, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged C. G. Jung, Christianity, empiricism, H. P. Lovecraft, H. R. Giger, holocaust revisionism, Jews, liberalism, modernity, North American New Right, originals, P. T. O'Talryn, Salvador Dalí, the holocaust | 6 Responses

Art After Metaphysics

1,710 words

John David Ebert
Art After Metaphysics
CreateSpace, 2013

Many readers will be familiar with John David Ebert from his excellent podcast (with Darryl D. Cooper), Decline of the West. In an early episode of the show, Ebert called the US presidential election for Trump even before Trump had won the Republican nomination. Read more …

Published: April 19, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged art, book reviews, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler | 2 Responses

Screening Pedophilia:
Egon Schiele: Tod und Mädchen

1,846 words

Austrian arthouse film Egon Schiele: Tod und Mädchen is perhaps most disappointing in that Egon Schiele led a very interesting life, yet the scriptwriter Hilde Berger and director Dieter Berner have succeeded in making it appear rather dull, in the same way as Mike Leigh served up a snore-fest about J. M. W. Turner a couple of years ago. Perhaps the two most interesting aspects of Schiele’s life, his trial for pedophilia and his experiences in the First World War, are completely glossed over Read more …

Published: December 19, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged David Yorkshire, decadence, miscegenation, movie reviews, painting, pedophilia, race-mixing | 2 Responses

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 167
The Northwest Forum
What’s Wrong with the Arts

Charles Krafft

Charles Krafft in his bunker

44:25 / 102 words

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Published: November 24, 2016 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged abstract expressionism, Charles Krafft, CIA, Counter-Currents Radio, Frankfurt School, originals, podcasts, political correctness, the arts, The Northwest Forum | 2 Responses

The Alt Right & the Arts

2,386 words

Vig Scholma, Furor Teutonicus

The Road to Alt Right Artistry

Since Hillary Clinton’s mention of the Alternative Right in one of her speeches, there have been countless discussions about what the Alt Right is and represents, with everyone and anyone, no matter how inappropriate, suddenly declaring they are part of the Alt Right. I think it is quite easy to define what the Alt Right is: it is the postmodern manifestation of what Julius Evola termed the True Right. Read more …

Published: November 2, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Andy Nowicki, Ann Sterzinger, articles, Charles Krafft, culture jamming, David Yorkshire, Italian futurism, Juleigh Howard-Hobson, metapolitics, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, satire, Seventh Son, the Alternative Right, the arts, The Daily Shoah, The Right Stuff, Tito Perdue | 10 Responses

Make Weimerica Grate Again:
A Review of the “Daddy Will Save Us” Art Show

Julia Rouget

796 words

Last Saturday night in Manhattan, a few good shitlords made art history. At the “Daddy Will Save Us” art show, event organizer Lucian Wintrich stated that this was “the first conservative art show in America.” But there really wasn’t anything typically “conservative” about this event — rather, it was the most radically avant-garde art show possible in The Current Year. If this was conservatism, it was revolutionary conservatism. Read more …

Published: October 11, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2016 US Presidential Elections, articles, culture jamming, Donald Trump, James O'Keefe, Milo Yiannopoulos, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, satire, trolling | 6 Responses

Francis Bacon:
The Dark Theology of Meat

2,046 words

Francis Bacon, 1909–1992

Francis Bacon was an extraordinary and extreme artist and one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century. He was also a Right-wing elitist and individualist who approached the problem of creating art in the twentieth century with an honesty and intensity that have not really been matched. Generally speaking, it is probably true to say that most of the Right dismiss Bacon along with other contemporary artists mainly because of his unique treatment of the human form. But in my view his art enunciates a violent assault on the complacency of conventional thinking and perception that should be seen as deeply consonant with the project of the Alt Right. Read more …

Published: June 9, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged art criticism, articles, Christopher Pankhurst, exhibition reviews, Francis Bacon, nihilism, North American New Right, originals | 1 Response

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 155
The Arts & Metapolitics

62 minutes / 141 words

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John Morgan of Arktos joins Greg Johnson to interview David Yorkshire, editor of Mjolnir Magazine, a print journal dedicated to cultivating artistic creativity from a European identitarian perspective. Read more …

Published: April 4, 2016 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Arno Breker, Charles Krafft, Counter-Currents Radio, David Yorkshire, Greg Johnson, interviews, Italian fascism, Italian futurism, John Morgan, podcasts, T. S. Eliot, the Third Reich, Thomas Carlyle, Tito Perdue | 4 Responses

Spengler:
The Numinous Genesis of Culture

6,156 words

Oswald Spengler’s radical contribution to the philosophy of history was to observe that different Cultures and Civilizations are discrete life forms and that they all have a certain life-expectancy. The linear progression of history, from the Stone Age to the prevailing Western liberalism, is a myth. There is no single line of history running through all of humanity. Instead, Cultures are born, they grow to maturity, they age, and they die. Read more …

Published: March 29, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aleister Crowley, articles, Christopher Pankhurst, cultural renewal, Current 93, decadence, Francis Parker Yockey, Genesis P-Orridge, Giacinto Scelsi, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, philosophy, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history, religion, the numinous, Theodor Adorno, Willis Carto | 3 Responses

Against the Turner Prize

Jonathan Bowden

7,006 words

Damien Hirst’s The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living

Editor’s Note:

This is the transcript by V. S. of the audio of Jonathan Bowden’s short film Against the Turner Prize. Unfortunately, only the audio is available on YouTube. If anyone has access to the video version, please contact me at [email protected]. Bowden talks about 25 illustrations. Without the video, however, I have had to try to provide new illustrations based on Bowden’s descriptions, frequently without success. Read more …

Published: March 15, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged art criticism, articles, conceptual art, Damien Hirst, Jonathan Bowden, North American New Right, originals | 3 Responses

Remembering Filippo Marinetti:
December 22, 1876 to December 2, 1944

150 words

Published: December 22, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged art, articles, commemorations, fascism, Filippo Marinetti, futurism, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals | 3 Responses

“Божиите маймуни“ на Уиндъм Люис

Jonathan Bowden

956 думи

English original here

Уиндъм Люис
The Apes of God

“Божиите маймуни“ (Apes of God) се оказва една от най-унищожителните сатири публикувани на английски език от времето на Драйдън и Поуп насам. Read more …

Published: August 21, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Bill Hopkins, book reviews, feminism, in Bulgarian, in translation, Jonathan Bowden, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, Wyndham Lewis | Leave a comment

Lars Holger Holm on Modern Art

James J. O'Meara

2,690 words

Lars Holger Holm
Hiding in Broad Daylight: An Analysis of the Political Radicalisation and Commercialisation of Artistic Modernism
London: Arktos, 2015

“Charles,” said Cordelia, “Modern Art is all bosh, isn’t it?”

“Great bosh.”

—Brideshead Revisited (1945) Read more …

Published: May 11, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged abstract expressionism, Ananda Coomaraswamy, architecture, art criticism, book reviews, classical music, Igor Stravinsky, James J. O'Meara, John Tavener, Julius Evola, North American New Right, originals, Tom Wolfe | 5 Responses

Albion’s Hidden Numina
Andy Goldsworthy

3,213 words

Andy Goldsworthy, Ice Ball

The English sculptor Andy Goldsworthy is a practitioner of Land art, a practice that seeks to create art from natural materials and settings. Other practitioners of Land art include Richard Long, Robert Smithson, and David Nash. Whilst there is this common element of setting art in (or creating it from) the landscape, there is also a particularly striking quality to Andy Goldsworthy’s work that sets him apart from other Land artists. In short, this particular quality of his work might be termed sacred or numinous. For this reason he is both lauded as a contemporary shaman and derided as a twee pastoralist. Neither extremity really reveals much about Goldsworthy’s art. Read more …

Published: April 28, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Albion's Hidden Numina, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Christopher Pankhurst, conceptual art, Rudolf Otto, sculpture, the numinous | 3 Responses

Curses, Cut-Ups, & Contraptions:
The “Disastrous Success” of William Burroughs’ Magick

James J. O'Meara

5,685 words

Matthew Levi Stevens
The Magical Universe of William S. Burroughs
Oxford: Mandrake of Oxford, 2014[1]

My very first question to him, a living, breathing, Beatnik legend in the flesh was . . . “Tell me about magick?” William was not in the least surprised by my question. “Care for a drink?” he asked. Putting on the TV to watch The Man from U.N.C.L.E., he explained “Reality is not really all it’s cracked up to be, you know . . .”—Genesis P-Orridge Read more …

Published: January 21, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, David Bowie, Genesis P-Orridge, James J. O'Meara, Julius Evola, literature, magic, modernism, North American New Right, originals, the occult, Traditionalism, William S. Burroughs | 7 Responses

How Traditional Catholics are Taking Back the Visual Culture of France, Part 2: A Tactical Guide

Patrick Le Brun

Piss Christ – Destroyed by Men of Avignon

3,549 words

Introduction

Part 1 of this article explained how the line between the domain of the religion and culture of Europe and the degenerate art of our invaders has been dramatically crossed after years of stability. Read more …

Published: December 26, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Catholicism, France, North American New Right, originals, Patrick Le Brun, Paul McCarthy, Performance Criticism | 5 Responses

How Traditional Catholics Are Taking Back the Visual Culture of France, Part 1

Patrick Le Brun

2,296 words

Jeff Koons’ Balloon Dog at Versailles, Property of François Pinault

For most of my lifetime, the visual culture of France was not in dispute. It is not like in the United States, where nativity scenes were only recently ripped from the public square. Perhaps there was not a mutually accepted border, but for decades there has been a kind of line of control between all that was rooted in our culture and traditions and all garbage of the culture distorters. Read more …

Published: December 23, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Catholicism, France, François Mitterrand, Freemasonry, homosexuality, North American New Right, originals, Patrick Le Brun | 1 Response

Remembering Filippo Marinetti:
December 22, 1876 to December 2, 1944

Prampolini’s portrait of Filippo Marinetti, 1876-1944

155 words

First, there is Marinetti’s “Futurist Manifesto” of 1909.

Published: December 22, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged art, articles, commemorations, fascism, Filippo Marinetti, futurism, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals | Comments closed

A Tale of Two Victims

Patrick Le Brun

Emma Sulkowicz

2,287 words

In the month of August the American press turned its spotlight on the suffering of two women. The attention they were given did not correspond to the depth of tragedy of each but rather to the priorities of the parasites occupying the positions of power.

Published: November 24, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, feminism, North American New Right, originals, Patrick Le Brun, populism, the labor movement, white nationalism | 26 Responses

Daniel Forrest’s Suprahumanism

Ted Sallis

4,072 words

Daniel S. Forrest
Suprahumanism: European Man and the Regeneration of History
London: Arktos, 2014

Given my interests in topics covered in my Nietzsche’s Coming God book review, as well as my Overman High Culture essay, I thought it useful to take a look at Daniel Forrest’s new book, Suprahumanism.

“Everything is Still Possible”

Jonathan Bowden

Fortunato Depero, Skyscrapers and Tunnels (Gratticieli e tunnel), 1930

2,770 words

Editor’s Note:

This text continues the transcript by V. S. of Jonathan Bowden’s interview at the Union Jack Club in London on Saturday, November 21, 2009, after his lecture/performance on Punch and Judy. The title is editorial.

Published: October 28, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged death, dystopia, economics, free trade, interviews, Jonathan Bowden, North American New Right, optimism, originals, Oswald Spengler, pessimism, protectionism, white nationalism | 2 Responses

The Counter-Currents 2014 Summer Fundraiser
“Up Yours”: The War on Art Joins the War on Christmas