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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.

Long associated with witchcraft and bad luck, the black feline became an emblem of artistic rebellion and urban life in 19th-century Paris. | Rebecca Schiffman

From the Kelly Clarkson’s mechanical bird fiasco to Carrie Bradshaw’s Dior newsprint dress, Gay Halloween speaks to the staying power of women’s iconic media moments. | Rhea Nayyar

An exhibition at the Academy Museum explores the transgressive power of scary movies, channeling our deepest fears about life, death, and the unknown. | Matt Stromberg

Ken Russell’s film designed by Derek Jarman, newly released in a 4K restoration, mirrors the horrors unfolding outside our windows. | Phillip Pyle

“You Can See Everything” is toted as a documentary, but is Fielder a performance artist playing a documentarian? | Rebecca Schiffman

A show at the Getty demonstrates the way modernist approaches to photography shifted the visual culture of Mexico in the 20th century. | Armando Pulido

It’s a provocative and discursive exploration of how artists respond to our late-capitalist epoch, but its focus on “rupture” raises questions. | Neil Price

From Robert Rauschenberg and Josef Albers to Vija Celmins and Julie Mehretu, artists have tinkered outside their comfort zones at Gemini G.E.L. | David S. Rubin

Her environmental paintings ask: What can we do to change our destiny? What effect can we have on the place we inhabit? | John Yau

Institutions must reckon with the possibility that their prestige can be used to legitimize people whose conduct warrants serious investigations. | Danielle Bensky

As the legal dispute over the paintings’ ownership continues, no one seems to be asking: What were their names? Who may still be grieving their deaths? What decision would best honor them? | Cristiana Grigore

Instead of leaving the South behind, the polymath artist carried it into her writings, zines, paintings, and “shack sculptures” that echo the architecture of her childhood. | Maria Owen

As an artist who lived through the Reagan-era Culture Wars, I recommend Isaac Butler’s “The Perfect Moment” for the stories that parallel our current fight to defend creative expression. | Martha Wilson

In the legal system, art created by refugees and incarcerated people can serve both as a form of therapy and as evidence of mass atrocities. | Duaa Shah

I spoke to the poet, who is my longtime friend and colleague, about her new book, the threads connecting poetry and visual art, and how Lakota philosophy suffuses her work. | Dyani White Hawk

“Perhaps the stadium is actually the replacement for the UN as a symbolic gathering point to conduct world politics,” the artist told Hyperallergic in an interview. | Brian Karl

Yuntao Xu’s art show in a gas station, LA’s first gallery run for and by Black artists, iris yirei hu’s reliquaries for a dream, and April Bey’s alien tapestries of human life. | Matt Stromberg

The exhibition shares two new sections of the public art mural on view for the first time, featuring moments from an era of collective action that still resonates today.

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