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Good morning. 🌤️ Today, museums in Vienna are turning to OnlyFans to avoid social media shenanigans, a Poussin exhibition in London misses the mark, and the creepy doll contest returns just in time for Halloween.

— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

To Evade Social Media Censors, Vienna Museums Pivot to OnlyFans

The profile includes works by Egon Schiele, Amedeo Modigliani, and Peter Paul Rubens, as well as a prehistoric Venus of Willendorf figurine. | Hakim Bishara

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The Competition for This Year’s Creepy Doll Contest Is More Horrifying Than Ever

These horrifying dolls definitely won’t murder you in your sleep. | Sarah Rose Sharp

The good folks at the History Center of Olmsted County have reopened whatever direct portal to hell they have access to and allowed a new parade of creepy dolls to emerge and compete for our affections (and the right to gnaw our faces off as we sleep).

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Editions/Artists’ Books Fair Online Opens on October 18

51 international publishers and galleries showcase their latest editions in prints and artists’ books at this free public fair, which is fully online this year. Learn more.

PAFA’s Brodsky Center Presents New Editions by Resident Artists at E/AB Fair

The collaborative handmade paper- and printmaking center at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts publishes new works by Liz Collins and Sarah McEneaney. Learn more.

LATEST IN ART

A New Manhattan Gallery Elevates the Careers of Latinx Artists

For Calderón Ruiz's first exhibition, artists Esteban Ramón Pérez and Jaime Muñoz plumb the depths of Chicanx identity. | Valentina Di Liscia

A Well-Intentioned Poussin Show Almost Gets it Right

Curator Francesca Whitlum-Cooper claims this as a “first ever” exhibition showing Poussin in “a new light,” with captioning that overstates his importance. | Olivia McEwan

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The Expressive Body: Memory, Devotion, Desire (1400–1750) Opens at the Norton Simon Museum

This exhibition explores how images of the human body were used to provoke profound physical and emotional responses in viewers from the 15th through 18th centuries. Learn more.

An Anarchist Illustrator Looks to Radical Histories to Fight Fascism

N.O. Bonzo's illustrations, murals, and literature build on radical art traditions, addressing relations of labor and identity in local communities and protest movements. | Billy Anania

Creating Home From Scraps of Place

With scavenged materials, Amanda Maciel Antunes constructs a motherland. | Anya Ventura

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The Wellin Museum of Art Presents Sarah Oppenheimer: Sensitive Machine

Through four newly designed “instruments,” Oppenheimer explores how individual and communal actions shape the spaces we inhabit. Learn more.

C Magazine Presents the Curious Criticism Symposium

Join us for a free online series of talks, conversations, and workshops engaging in art criticism across disciplines, communities, and geographies. Learn more.

OPINION

The Effects of September 11th Traumas Twenty Years Later

The connection between September 11 and Little Syria, in their close physical proximity, has always been a fraught topic. | Todd Fine

I realized how the obscurity and unsettled significance of this lost neighborhood are what made it appealing as a setting to express complex and broadly shared feelings of loss related to September 11, emotions related to historical nostalgia.

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Meet UConn’s MFA Studio Art Class of 2024

This fully-funded three-year graduate program in Southern New England supports a broad range of art making, exemplified by the work of its newest students. Learn more.

COMICS

The Time Godard Called Filmgoers Bourgeois Fascists

Where are the directors taking the stage to acknowledge workers’ demands today? | Nathan Gelgud

FROM THE ARCHIVE

Not sure what to be this Halloween? We got you — from how-tos on dressing up as hornet, a carrier pigeon, or even air to avant-garde dance costumes à la Triadisches Ballett.

Avant-Garde 1920s Costumes Reemerge, Revealing Their Makers’ Tragic Story

In 1920s Hamburg, a dancer couple created wild, Expressionist costumes that looked like retro robots and Bauhaus knights. A new museum collection reveals their tragic, forgotten story. | Allison Meier

Elaborate Halloween Costume Tips from a 19th-Century Guide to Fancy Dress

Looking for a Halloween costume? Here’s a 19th-century guide to dressing for fancy balls, with costumes for witches, carrier pigeons, glowworms, and air. | Allison Meier

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