Alexander Calder Erewhon Smoothie?
It’s the collaboration the art world deserves. Plus, we’re throwing a Halloween party!
At our Halloween party last year, my undergrad art history thesis advisor showed up as Malevich’s “Black Square,” and a writer I regularly work with handed out purple squares for his “Relational Aesthetics” (???) costume. So what I’m saying is that we throw an excellent Halloween party, and you ought to come to this year’s. Mark your calendars: Wednesday, October 28 — and wear your best costume, because we’ll be holding a competition, and we might just write an article about it. (Also, yes, there’s an open bar.) Hyperallergic members get half off on tickets. Join us.
Elsewhere in New York are Ridikkuluz’s can’t-miss paintings: George W. Bush choking on a shoe, painting a possessed poodle is just the tip of the iceberg. It’s a moving — at times, devastating — exhibition that combines queer and SWANA symbols to hold the pain and horror of Israel’s oppression of Palestinians.
If you can’t make Hyperallergic Halloween for reasons of being located on the opposite coast (we’ll forgive you), check out Matt Stromberg’s great list of what to see around Los Angeles this month. The other stuff going on in that city I can’t really speak for … “LACMA’s Alexander Calder Erewhon Smoothie” is a series of words I really never thought I’d see in that order. Good thing Associate Editor Phillip Pyle’s got an excellent piece breaking it all down. Or should I say taking it all down?
—Lisa Yin Zhang, associate editor
LACMA’s Alexander Calder Erewhon Smoothie Is What the Art World Deserves
Imagine you’re a hotshot young New York gallerist whose rapidly rising artist has been invited to show in a group exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). But between this fall’s booths at Frieze London and Art Basel Paris, a detour to Venice, and micromanaging your unpaid interns, you can only go for a day. So, tragically, there’s no time to fit in your regular visit to Erewhon, for which there’s simply no New York equivalent, especially because the $36,000 initiation fee for the Kith Ivy padel club that houses the city’s only Erewhon tonic bar is prohibitive in this art market.
Well, I have good news for the few who can relate to these circumstances: LACMA announced this week that the Erewhon pop-up in its new David Geffen Galleries will now serve as the museum’s permanent cafe. | Phillip Pyle
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News
- The European Parliament installs a gilded nude statue mocking Trump.
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From Our Critics
The Hellhounds of Genocide
In Ridikkuluz’s paintings, the irascible dog emerges as a symbol for Israel’s oppression of Palestinians. | Daniel Larkin
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Attend print and drawing-focused sessions in person and online with LACMA, The Met, and more throughout the month of October.
In Focus
Celebrating 60 Years of NYC’s Millennium Film Workshop
Founded by a group of artists from the Film-Makers’ Cooperative, the avant-garde space remains a supportive home for a community of experimental and non-commercial filmmakers. | Irene Lee
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Institutions are human creations. Building and reshaping them requires imagination, experimentation and a tolerance for uncertainty. | Amy Gilman
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“Modernity and Opulence: Women of the Wiener Werkstätte” at the Jewish Museum
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Guide
10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This October
Roberta Gentry’s visions in orange and blue, Jordan Nassar’s tatreez puzzles, 12 Japanese women who shaped hard-edge abstraction, Susan Silton’s feminist conceptualism, and more. | Matt Stromberg
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Remembering Ingrid Wiener, Ian Berry, and Bob Masse
This week, we honor a Viennese Actionist, a journalist who captured Apartheid, and a poster designer for concerts and films. | Lisa Yin Zhang
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apexart — 2027-28 NYC Open Call
Accepting 500-word proposals for group exhibitions presented at apexart in 2027-28. Five winning exhibitions receive up to 10K budget. All with a compelling group exhibition idea are encouraged to apply.
Deadline: October 31, 2026 | apexart.org
Member Comment
—Alex Clark on "The Met’s Krasner and Pollock Show Is a Breathtaking Upending"
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