Arts & Culture
“Ancient Splendor” brings Trajan’s artifacts to the US for the first time
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Weekend Editor Eric O. Scott reviews the new exhibition at the St. Louis Art Museum, “Ancient Splendor: Roman Art in the Time of Trajan.”
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Weekend Editor Eric O. Scott reviews the new exhibition at the St. Louis Art Museum, “Ancient Splendor: Roman Art in the Time of Trajan.”
Manny Moreno reviews Stav Appel’s boxed set from Ayin Press, which includes the Jean Noblet Tarot de Marseille alongside a startling argument that the Marseille Tarot tradition reflects Jewish symbolism transmitted during a time of antisemitic persecution.
In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: New Moon Eclectics scores a victory in Georgia, scientists rediscover some super-cute marsupials once thought extinct, “witchcraft” is mentioned in a Seattle-area murder investigation, and we share the sad news that Kat Suthon has crossed the Veil.
As warnings about AI “necromancy” circulate in Catholic discourse, Pagans once again appear as the unspoken cautionary tale. But the real ethical concern may not be communicating with the dead, but consent, authority, and imitation.
In 2020, Lauren Parker was driving through the desert listening to David Bowie’s 1976 album “Station to Station,” starring one of Bowie’s most haunting characters, the Thin White Duke. “I didn’t even know if I liked the album,” she writes. “I just couldn’t shake it.”