Goyas and Guggenheims and girls with the pearl earring, oh my! Leave it to Hyperallergic readers to craft the most art historically delectable costumes this spooky season. Last week, dozens of us turned Oberon in Brooklyn into a veritable museum of surreal, riotous, and political artworks brought to life. Check out Zac Thompson’s photos of our fabulous second annual Halloween party and costume contest, judged by Claire Valdez, Jia Sung, Aruna D’Souza, and Nicholas D. Lowery. Nothing’s scarier than missing out on a night of artsy revelry — join us as a Hyperallergic Member to get free tickets to our future events!
Actually, scratch that: The new partnership between the Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou, and M+ might take the cake. Staff Writer Rhea Nayyar reports on the announcement, which left several questions about the fate of the institutions’ staff and collections unanswered.
We also remember the life and work of Oberlin College photography professor Pipo Nguyen-duy, who was tragically killed last week alongside his wife, Tran Thi Phong. Staff Writer Anna Lee spoke with some of the countless students and colleagues who remember him as a playful, subversive teacher and artist.
Read on for the artistic freedom at stake in South Carolina’s elections tomorrow and A View From the Easel of Anna Pajak, who paints spectral figures in the woods of southern Sweden.
—Lakshmi Rivera Amin, associate editor, books
The Greatest Art Costumes From Hyperallergic’s Halloween Party
A Dutch still life, “Beast Jesus,” several esoteric Goya characters, and not one but two Marina Abramović/Ulay references (and not even the most obvious ones!) walk into a bar … That’s a Hyperallergic Halloween, baby!
On Wednesday evening, October 28, almost 200 of our members, readers, artists, supporters, and their enthusiastic friends rolled into Oberon in Brooklyn for our annual art costume party.
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News
- In South Carolina, artistic freedom is on the ballot. A governor-appointed arts commission has denied funding to two LGBTQ+ organizations and an artist focused on immigration issues.
- With less than a month left until the 61st Venice Biennale closes, the United States pavilion commissioner Jenni Parido pleads for additional donations to ship Alma Allen’s sculptures out of Italy.
- Pipo Nguyen-duy, a beloved 64-year-old photography professor and the studio art department chair at Oberlin College in Ohio, and his wife, 56-year-old Tran Thi Phong, were fatally shot in their home.
- Leaders at Manhattan’s Museum of Modern Art, Paris’s Centre Pompidou, and M+ in Hong Kong sign an agreement granting unprecedented access to each museum’s holdings.
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Features
10 Years Later, Magenta Plains Is Still Embracing the Unexpected
An anniversary exhibition spotlights the artists who’ve made the gallery one of Lower Manhattan’s most adventurous success stories. | Aaron Short
Community
A View From the Easel: Anna Pajak
“I wanted it to feel like a chapel, a place for everything I believe in. My painting chapel.”
Hyper Links
- Palestinian poet Fady Joudah pairs his own writing with that of Mahmoud Darwish in this moving collection of reflections on the legacy of Ghassan Kanafani. [Los Angeles Review of Books]
- What can the global popularity of vertical-format Chinese microdramas tell us about our own watch habits? [Dial]
- Three magazines all hired the same fashion photographer for their covers this month, and it’s getting old. [Instagram]
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From the Archive
5 Art Books to Light Your Path Through November
A biography of Andy Warhol’s mother, São Paulo’s Neo-Avant-Garde, resplendent Hokusai works, plus new monographs and catalogs to check out this month.
