Now through May 12th, The Dali Museum is hosting this fabulous travelling Tarot art show curated by Stacy Engman, and their doing it for free!
Original artwork from the deck will be on display …. works by people like Yoshitomo Nara, Vivienne Westwood, Christian Louboutin, Andres Serrano, Terry Richardson, Marc Jacobs, and Karl Lagerfeld (to name just a few). It’s a truly star-studded pack of cards.
I haven’t seen the show myself yet, but I have a copy of the deck, and it’s absolutely fantastic!! It’s one of my favourite contemporary decks for sure. I recommend everyone check it out, and if you’re in Florida, go see the show!
Visiting The Dali Museum at any time would be fun, visiting it when there’s a Tarot show on would be a true delight.
I mentioned it a while back while they were still taking submissions, but I’m posting again to remind everyone that the show opens this week …
The Art of Tarot 2013 at The Hermit’s Lamp. Andrew McGregor has put together another fabulous collection of Tarot art from artists in and around Toronto.
Though the show will be hanging through May, the Opening Night party will be this coming Thursday, April 25th from 7:30 to 9:30.
I’m going to try to be there, and if you’re in the Toronto area, you should too! It’s going to be fun, and full of Tarot magic.
Tarot fans in the Sacramento, California area have a chance to see some fabulous Tarot art at Bows & Arrows’ Tarot Show, on now through May 2nd.
Curators Daniel Trudeau and Liz Mahoney gathered 78 artists to each create a Tarot card, and they look pretty great.
You can see some of them at the Bows & Arrows’ website, as well as read an interview with Trudeau and Mahoney about what inspired them, and how they put the project together.
I’d go see the show if I were there. And apparently, they’re selling the deck. I’d definitely like one of those.
It’s by Deems of the Moscow based art collective known as Facehead who created little ‘art’ cards and anonymously shared them with the public.
Though Tarot is not involved in Facehead’s project, I couldn’t help but think that doing something similar with hand drawn Tarot images would be great fun too.
I think it would be so fun that I just might try it. I’ll let you all know if I do.
Finding one of these cards would be fabulous, but making them and leaving them for someone else could be even better.
Next month, Tarot enthusiasts in the Middlebrook, Vermont area are in for a treat.
Brooklyn visual and performance artist Eliza Stamps will be presenting her show, The Oracle Project at the Edgewater Gallery.
First created by Stamps in Beijing, she’s performed it multiple times across the U.S. This time though, she’s gone a step further and designed a new 50-card oracle deck specifically for the show.
In The Oracle Project, Stamps uses ‘fortune-telling’ to examine the relationship between art, artists, viewer and meaning. As she describes it, the project is …
“an exploration of how the artist prescribes meaning, how the viewer accepts that meaning, and what happens when people suspend their better judgment and believe in a little bit of magic.”
Sounds intriguing.
The show opens February 15th and runs through the end of the month.
