Theosophy
‘Mahatmas’ are ideals of human perfection. Madame Blavatsky was their agent in India is an article in response to Vinita Dhondiyal Bhatnagar’s article on Madame Blavatsky and AO Hume, the author corrects misconceptions about the Theosophical Movement in India.
Art
It seems that a theosophical painter, especially a contemporary one, is gaining some notoriety in California. Her name is Ariana Papademetropoulos. She "was born and raised in Pasadena, makes seductively beautiful, large-scale paintings". The Los Angeles Times, LA weekly and artnet and others wrote long articles about her. She speaks openly about Theosophical Artists and Theosophy and her relation to it and the articles are in a positive tone. Let us hope, that this will continue after this publicity.
An very interesting article about the famous Transcendental Painting Group - inspired, to varying degrees, by Theosophy and esoteric thought in New Mexico in the first half of the last century, in which Theosophy plays a major role. You can find nice paintings of this group, which is also connected to Hilma af Klint, in this article.
There is a Hilma af Klint exhibition in Wellington (NZ). See also Hilma af Klint’s “Tree of Knowledge” Watercolors on Display at David Zwirner for more information about an exhibiton in New York. If you are interested, there is a newer documentaion about her, see here for the trailer or here for a review, about "Dyrschka’s new film, Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint, a dazzling, course-correcting documentary about the visionary abstract painter Hillma af Klint".
Did you know: “Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future” at the Guggenheim, the New York museum has announced that the show has already become its most-attended exhibition of all time. More than 600,000 visitors have come to see the Tracey Bashkoff-curated survey of the Swedish mystic painter. Read at Artnet about it.
Miscellaneous
In the article Then Again: Vermont ‘psychics’ drew the attention of Arthur Conan Doyle Olcott's book "People from the Other World" is taken up with many pictures from it. It tells the touching story of Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, and spiritualism, but from a very materialistic point of view.
Here are some brief mentions of Theosophy in connection with a Kandinsky exhibition at Guggenheim ("infused with the quasi-religious tenets of Theosophy") and the composer Gustav Holst, famous for his symphonic work "The Planets", at the Cambridge Chamber Ensemble.
In the article Feminism’s Hidden Spiritual Side you can read: "The emergence of Theosophy, and the influence of its leader Madame Helena Blavatsky, gave women alternatives to thinking about their place in the hierarchy."
"The Calvert Journal looks back on the extraordinary life of Alma Karlin: the Slovene adventurer who shunned her travel writing career to delve deeper into human spirituality — and join the Yugoslav resistance.... Her later works, Isolanthis (1936), Angel on Earth (1936) and Blue Moon (1938) expressed the teachings of Buddhism and Theosophy, regarding the unity and immortality of the human soul, and the liberation from the shackles of earthly existence."
National Today informs us about the History of Aura Awareness Day in which Theosophy plays a not insignificant role.
False Allegations
The "historian" Kulander continues to spread his crude views about an esoteric-theosophical Nazi Germany (Theosophy World News reported in 2017)) and the fairy tale that the Reptilian conspiracy theory can be traced back to Blavatsky also continues to gain popularity, not least because "authors" in the "encyclopaedia" Wikipedia spread these untruths unhindered. See here my vain attempt to change something about it.
And more
And finally in this category a small collection of other articles in which Theosophy plays a small role and is mentioned in passing: The Theory of the Tunisian Atlantis - Beneath the Sands of Africa!, What’s locked in YOUR AKASHIC Record*?, he heavenly twins of Galle, On Why Buddhism Lost Relevance And How It’s Being Revived In India What Is Esoteric Astrology and How Is It Different from Reading My Horoscope?