Barney Robison Blog

The increasing popularity of fantasy and science fiction themes in art is visualized and celebrated in the sumptuous Spectrum series, which has been the leading resource for such art since its inception in 1994. The early volumes, long out-of-print and now expensive collectors items, are being reprinted for a new generation of fans to enjoy. Spectrum 3, from Read more

Description: Through his powerful images, photographer Jim Olive captures the culture and vibrancy of this city on the bayou. His unique perspective emphasizes the integration of historic and contemporary Houston. Olive’s photos bring the city’s grand metropolitan architecture, booming commercial port and oil rigs, and wide variety of community Read more

This collection of rare, abstract Tantra drawings was conceived when the French poet Franck Andr Jamme stumbled on a small catalogue of Tantric art at a Paris bookseller’s stall. The volume included writings by Octavio Paz and Henri Michaux, and Jamme became fascinated by the images’ affinity with modern art and poetry. He read voraciously and even journeyed to India, searching in vain for Tantric practitioners, until a bus accident on the road to Jaipur sent him home to France with serious injuries. When he returned a few years later, he met a soothsayer who proclaimed that Jamme had now paid sufficient tribute to the goddess Shakti and required him to take a vow: he must visit the tantrikas alone or only in the company of a loved one. Since then, Jamme has gained extraordinary access to very private communities of adepts and their intensely beautiful works. These contemporary, anonymous drawings from Rajasthan are unlike the more familiar strands of Tantric Read more