Spectres of folk
Cultural institutions love to flirt with the eccentric as much as they love to rediscover ideas they only recently abandoned. In art galleries, which have tended to side with the rational, periodic reappraisals of concepts like witchcraft or the occult, such as the 2020 touring exhibition Not Without My Ghosts, narrate incremental shifts in culture’s relationship with Enlightenment logic. The recurring celebratory incorporation of outsider art into the mainstream, like in the 2013 Venice Biennale The Encycopedic Palace, marks even contemporary art’s reliance on ideas cultivated outside the establishment.
- ▪Cultural institutions love to flirt with the eccentric as much as they love to rediscover ideas they only recently abandoned.
- ▪In art galleries, which have tended to side with the rational, periodic reappraisals of concepts like witchcraft or the occult, such as the 2020 touring exhibition Not Without My Ghosts, narrate incremental shifts in culture’s relationship
- ▪The recurring celebratory incorporation of outsider art into the mainstream, like in the 2013 Venice Biennale The Encycopedic Palace, marks even contemporary art’s reliance on ideas cultivated outside the establishment.
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| Original publisher | The Critic |
| Canonical URL | https://thecritic.co.uk/spectres-of-folk/ |
| Publication time | Fri, 22 May 2026 01:00:18 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-22T01:16:36.513Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-22T01:16:37.974Z |
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Cultural institutions love to flirt with the eccentric as much as they love to rediscover ideas they only recently abandoned. In art galleries, which have tended to side with the rational, periodic reappraisals of concepts like witchcraft or the occult, such as the 2020 touring exhibition Not Without My Ghosts, narrate incremental shifts in culture’s relationship with Enlightenment logic. The recurring celebratory incorporation of outsider art into the mainstream, like in the 2013 Venice Biennale The Encycopedic Palace, marks even contemporary art’s reliance on ideas cultivated outside the establishment. Elsewhere, one might expect the recent resurgence in religious interest to spark speculation about future aesthetic forms that break with the cold cult of organised reason.
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