Halloween 2022

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With simultaneously mournful and irreverent works, ‘F’ at Empty Gallery is haunted by our inability to process grief in the internet age

BY Cassie Kaixin Liu | 16 SEP 22

From her studio in Brooklyn, Pels talks to us about dogs, death and driving the streets at night in search of materials

16 MAY 22

At Grimm, New York, the Peruvian artist presents a body of work that asks us to defang our baleful understandings of ghosts

BY Simon Wu | 11 JAN 22

At Kunsthall Charlottenborg, a group exhibition aims to draw connections between witch trials and colonialism but fails to grapple with their continuities 

BY Steven Zultanski | 12 JAN 21

On what would have been Kelley’s 66th Birthday, Gabriella Pounds explores the impact of the antic French poem ‘Les Chants de Maldoror’ on the artist and his predecessors, from Hans Bellmer to John Balance 

BY Gabriella Pounds | 27 OCT 20

From The Walking Dead to Stranger Things, frightening revivals ‘captured a bit of lost magic in a disenchanted world’ 

BY Ian Bourland | 26 DEC 19

Why is female fear often conflated with desire?

BY Mimi Chu | 31 OCT 19

Nina Leger, Jenny Hval, Elvia Wilk and Sophie Mackintosh offer an eerie counterpoint to the traditionally male-dominated genre of weird literature

BY Gabriella Pounds | 31 OCT 19

Contemporary art’s resurgence of interest in magic has a powerful art-historical precedent

BY Caroline Marciniak | 18 SEP 19

From Miss Havisham’s wedding dress to Hans Christian Andersen’s ‘The Red Shoes’, why we’re so obsessed with murderous clothes

BY Amber Butchart | 10 JUL 19

Scheming dealers, demonic sculptures and filthy lucre: in Dan Gilroy’s Faustian tale, art takes murderous revenge

BY Ellen Mara De Wachter | 05 FEB 19

‘These works render the real, estranged personalities of our present perturbing, alluring; exquisite’

BY Gabriella Pounds | 22 JAN 19

Why is the figure of the witch and magical practice making a 21st-century comeback in the arts?

BY Tom Jeffreys | 26 NOV 18

‘Spellbound’ at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, traces magic and ritual from the Middle Ages to today

BY Hettie Judah | 03 SEP 18

Author George Pendle on his biography of Jack Parsons, the scientist, mysticist and follower of Aleister Crowley, now dramatized on CBS

BY Dan Fox | 22 JUN 18

Charlie Fox traces the recurring appearance of the mask in art

BY Charlie Fox | 01 OCT 17

What can this term teach us about absurdity in life and art?

BY Daniel Baumann | 23 APR 17

An exclusive excerpt from Charlie Fox's new book, This Young Monster, published today by Fitzcarraldo Editions

BY Charlie Fox | 22 FEB 17

Hermetic Gallery, Milwaukee, USA

BY Michelle Grabner | 12 NOV 00