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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, Egon Schiele, Egon Schiele: Tod und Mädchen, miscegenation, movie reviews, painting, pedophilia, race-mixing | 2 Responses

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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, hobby crafts, originals, podcasts, political correctness, the arts, the Frankfurt School, The Northwest Forum | Comments closed

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The Alt Right & the Arts

David Yorkshire

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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, Dan Park, David Yorkshire, Italian futurism, Jerzy Szumczyk, Juleigh Howard-Hobson, metapolitics, Mjolnir Magazine. Les Brigandes, 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, Vig Scholma | Comments closed

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

Julia Rouget

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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, Daddy Will Save Us, Donald Trump, James O'Keefe, Julia Rouget, Lucien Wintrich, Martin Shkreli, Milo Yiannopoulos, North American New Right, originals, performance art, political correctness, satire, trolling | Comments closed

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Francis Bacon:
The Dark Theology of Meat

Christopher Pankhurst

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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 | Comments closed

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Counter-Currents Radio
The Arts & Metapolitics

David Yorkshire

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 | Comments closed

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Spengler:
The Numinous Genesis of Culture

Christopher Pankhurst

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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, Equus, Francis Parker Yockey, Genesis P-Orridge, Giacinto Scelsi, Marcus Harvey, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, Peter Christopherson, Peter Schaefer, philosophy, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history, religion, the numinous, Theodor Adorno, Willis Carto | Comments closed

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Against the Turner Prize

Jonathan Bowden

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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 editor@counter-currents.com. 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, Chapman brothers, Chris Ofili, conceptual art, Damien Hirst, Duane Hanson, Jenny Saville, Jonathan Bowden, Marc Quinn, North American New Right, originals, Tracey Emin | Comments closed

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

Greg Johnson

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Those on the Right who believe that modern art is always “decadent” need to come to grips with Italian Futurism. In commemoration of the birthday of Filippo Marinetti, the founder of Italian Futurism and one of the prophets of Fascism, I would like to draw your attention to several writings on this website.

“Божиите маймуни“ на Уиндъм Люис

Jonathan Bowden

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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 …