Something wicked this way comes … and, for once, it isn’t corrupt museum trustees!
Something wicked this way comes … and, for once, it isn’t corrupt museum trustees! This Halloween, we invite you to celebrate all things spooky and inexplicable, neglected and cast out. A new “paranormal museum” in Wales opens today, part of a broader movement to study the supernatural from a cultural perspective. I also recommend critic and tarot practitioner AX Mina’s review of a book tracing 17th-century witch trials to the persecution of marginalized people today. The new documentary Dahomey has been making waves, Staff Writer Rhea Nayyar reports, exploring repatriation in Benin with an express goal of restoring agency to stolen statues — including one that narrates part of the film.
Read on for Ed Simon on the gift of the memento mori, “gay Halloween” memes featuring Chappell Roan and a passenger’s seat (iykyk), New York museums offering early voting this week, and more tricks and treats to sink your fangs — er, teeth, into below. — Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Associate Editor | |
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| | | Marion Gibson’s research rigorously traces the legal and human aspects of the trials through today. | AX Mina |
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SPONSORED | | | | In the first release of a new ongoing series, Platform invited three artists to interpret three body horror films selected by MUBI. They include Shannon Cartier Lucy's take on the fall's most talked-about film, The Substance, plus Seth Bogart on Death Becomes Her and Tim Brawner on Pedro Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In. Collect these signed editions |
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🎃👻🐈⬛☠️ | | | | Memento Moris remind us that death is inevitable, nothing afterward is assured, and what we do in that crack of light between oblivions is our responsibility. | Ed Simon |
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| | | From Chappell Roan references to hyper-specific camp and pop-culture moments, the phenomenon is a reprieve from the world of bunny ears and angel halos. | Rhea Nayyar and Isa Farfan |
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| ART & FILM | | | | Female subjectivity in the work of Leonor Fini and Leonora Carrington, Christopher Suarez’s odes to the parking lot, Yolanda López’s heroic portraits, and more. | Matt Stromberg |
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| | | | In Women at War, art is a counterattack, a means by which a victimized populace fights back. | Lori Waxman |
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| | | | Mati Diop’s Dahomey centers on the repatriation of 26 stolen Beninese objects and how it could shape the African country’s future. | Rhea Nayyar |
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FROM THE ARCHIVE | | | | Anthropomorphic pumpkins, mirror divination, and space-traveling witches all appear in the curious collision of imagery on vintage Halloween cards. | Allison Meier |
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IN MEMORIAM | Monique Knowlton (1937–2024)
Manhattan gallerist who modeled for Irving Penn | New York Times
Robert C. Morgan (1947–2024)
Artist, art historian, critic, and curator | Whitehot Magazine
Paul Morrissey (1938–2024)
Director of several film collaborations with Andy Warhol | New York Times |
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