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Vintage Halloween Cards Are the Stuff of Nightmares

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 30, 2017October 22, 2021

Anthropomorphic pumpkins, mirror divination, and space-traveling witches all appear in the curious collision of imagery on vintage Halloween cards.

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A 1903 Proposal to Preserve the Dead in Glass Cubes

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 27, 2017October 6, 2022

In 1903, an inventor patented a method of preserving corpses in glass, one of a number of radical inventions that has sought to resist death’s decay.

Costume for "the Witch" from Fancy dresses described : or, What to wear at fancy balls (1887) (via Internet Archive)
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Elaborate Halloween Costume Tips from a 19th-Century Guide to Fancy Dress

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 25, 2017June 10, 2021

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.

Posted inArt

Why Chinese Art Is Swarming with Colonies of Tiny Bats

by Claire Voon October 24, 2017October 23, 2017

If the bat is an animal associated with spooky stories in the West, the bat motif has a whole different connotation in China, where the creatures symbolize good luck.

Posted inComics

Tips for a TRULY Scary Halloween Party

by Jack Sjogren October 19, 2017October 24, 2022

Spider webs and peeled grapes are scary, but you know what would make a really scary party?

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From Bob Ross to a Monet Haystack, This Year’s Best Art-Related Halloween Costumes

by Claire Voon November 1, 2016November 1, 2016

There were the usual Andy Warhols, of course, but it’s not often you see a Louise Bourgeois with phallic sculpture in hand.

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When a Drowned Woman’s Face Became the Muse of Paris

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 27, 2016October 28, 2016

The face of “L’Inconnue de la Seine” was a fashionable fixture of salons and studios, her enigmatic expression of a slight smile and closed eyes haunted by stories of her suicide.

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The Unsung Woman Artist Behind Your Tarot Cards

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 26, 2016August 25, 2021

In 1909, Pamela Colman Smith collaborated with occultist A. E. Waite on the most popular tarot deck of the 20th century.

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The Real Corpses That Served as Models for the Doomed Crew of the “Raft of the Medusa”

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 25, 2016October 25, 2016

For his most monumental painting, Théodore Géricault borrowed corpses from morgues and asylums to capture the ghastly horror of the 1816 Medusa shipwreck.

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The First Known Depiction of a Witch on a Broomstick

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 24, 2016October 27, 2021

In the 15th century, the image of the witch flying on a broomstick first appeared, its meaning laden with sexual and spiritual depravity.

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DEMOnstrate Your Creativity at This Year’s Critical Halloween Costume Competition

Avatar photo by Hyperallergic October 21, 2015October 21, 2015

Halloween is next weekend, and what better way to get into the spirit of things than celebrating a feared ghost of art and architecture at Storefront for Art and Architecture’s annual Critical Halloween?!

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Critical Halloween 2014: Costume Competition

Avatar photo by Hyperallergic November 3, 2014November 5, 2014

Everybody to the polls! No, we’re not talking about the US elections tomorrow — although you should also go to those polls — we’re talking about Hyperallergic and the Storefront for Art and Architecture’s annual Critical Halloween costume contest.

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