Voodoo Lounge

It's hard to find a good séance these days, so I schlepped to Jack the Pelican Presents in Williamsburg Thursday night where "world renowned psychic medium" Jackie Barrett conducted a voodoo ceremony to conjure the spirit of German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich. Why him? Well, Don Carroll, who runs the space, kinda likes the guy, though he also considered Henry Fuseli, who's "very cool too." The gallery's current group show is a multimedia mélange in which mutants, introverts, and tweens echo the nineteenth century nature-mystic's gloomy vision. Friedrich didn't seem particularly sociable on this side of the veil—so I wondered if he'd feel like chatting now that he's crossed over. Full Story

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