“Softly Spoken Magic Spells” by @brandimilne // Brandi Milne @ncwintersart // N.C. Winters @esao // Esao Andrews @ffo_art @quintanarte // Dan Quintana “Twilight in an October Garden” by @swallowsanddamsons // Anna Potter “Magickada” by @visualjamie // Jamie Wells “Una bambina Lunare” by @isajuna // Isa Bancewicz @nekotack // Miro Meguro Maria Germanova (commissioned by me!) by @handsomedevilspuppets A puppet-sizes version […]
Tomorrow, October 24th at 10am PST, Christina Mrozik is releasing a beautiful selection of new prints, which will be available here for pre-order. Everyone here at Haute Macabre gets excited when Mrozik announces new work of any kind. And, speaking for myself, I need all the transcendent, transformative beauty I can get right now. Mrozik’s […]
This week I received my author copies of The Art of the Occult, and it was such a surreal, dreamy experience that I had to make a little film of it to share! For those who have pre-ordered their copies and are patiently awaiting the book’s arrival next month (pub. date October 13, 2020), I […]
I had, for a time, sadly shelved the idea of a feature on digital collage artist Robin Isely, aka sliplead. I first mentioned this artist in my 2017 Needful Things roundup and I was immensely thrilled at the opportunity to connect with them for an interview, but unfortunately, their gorgeous Tumblr-hosted gallery–an obscurum of secrets, elusive […]
Harry James Hanson and Devin Antheus are capturing queer icons in their ongoing photo series, Legends of Drag, accompanied by short biographies of each Queen on Harper’s Bazaar. Lady Red Couture, Los Angeles // Gemini // co-host of Hey Queen! Passed away on July 25 of this year. “I always tell them: Don’t live in […]
“Le Comte” by @allisonsommers // Allison Sommers “Exhale” by @bitikart // Rim Bitik “Disconnect” by @visualjamie // Jamie Wells “The star” by @casimir0304 // Casimir Lee @yoheyhorishita // Yohey Horishita “Weep now or nevermore” by @brandimilne // Brandi Milne A motley crew of little mothlings by @handsomedevilspuppets “Like a ghost” by @ryanmrray // Ryan Murray @christophermichaelhefner // Christopher Michael Hefner “May Queen” by @memorialstitches […]
#olla art by @katezambrano // Kate Zambrano “Reticulum” by @_grave_witness_ // Stuart Holland Harpy by @harrietleemerrion // Harriet Lee Merion “Harmony” by @catrin_welzstein // Catrin Welz-Stein “Fasnacht” by @alice.wellinger // Alice Wellinger “Athena” by @jamesjeanart // James Jean @her_dark_materials // Ros Atkinson “The Sixth Trial” by @jmascarenhas // Jorge Mascarenhas “Consolation” by @lauramakabresku // Laura Makabresku Pagan Altar album art (detail) by @nightjarillustration // Adam Burke
Janaka Stucky is a poet, performer, and publisher whose latest book, Ascend Ascend, is now available from Third Man Records & Books. Find him at janakastucky.com and on Instagram. Camille Rose Garcia’s surreal, narrative paintings of wasteland fairy tales and candy-bright landscapes established her as a seminal artist in the LA lowbrow movement. Her work has been displayed […]
“We have art lest we perish from the truth,” declared German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, and this is a sentiment I have long held close to my heart. Art is what buoys me, it is the life vessel that has saved me from going completely under. I can always breathe easier and hope for better things […]
@how_many_ghosts // Maika “When Night Comes” by @nonalimmen // Nona Limmen @samyongart // Sam Yong “Healing Flower” by @kathleenlolley // Kathleen Lolley “Midnight Confidante” by @babswebb // Babs Webb “Soul” by @lauramakabresku // Laura Makabresku “Scarlet Ibis and Poppies” by @jeszika_levye // Jeszika Le Vye “The High Priestess” by @sevenspikestudio // Carla Cury @jmalkova // Julia Malkova “The Apothecary” by […]
Greetings from the other side of the longest January ever. We here at Haute Macabre are forever swooning over the hushed and haunting needlework of Adipocere. And, while I can’t say that I’m no longer in a funk now that EndlessJanuary is over, my spirits brightened considerably when I learned that our favorite Melbourne-based embroidery […]
“the sensibility of full roses” by @abreathinutopia // Cemal Eker “Never never land ” by @arianapapademetropoulos // Ariana Papademetropoulos “Communion” (crop) by @lane.draws // Lane Brown Book cover crop for Horrid by @mynameistran // Tran Nguyen “Opera (Act I) by @randyortizdtd // Randy Ortiz @artofigorkrstic // Igor Krstic “Mary Anning’s Oracle” by @aaronhorkey // Aaron Horkey […]
New Orleans photographer Brittany Markert’s portfolio book’s crowdfunding campaign ends in a few short hours via IndieGoGo. In Rooms Portfolio Book includes 22 prints from 2014-2019 including 19 of the artist’s favorite images from Sold Out Vol. I & II, 3 unpublished prints, 6 unpublished Self Portrait Diary Prints paired with excerpts from 4 interviews & handwritten […]
Embroidery is not for the impatient. Those tiny stitches, painstaking and precise, individually add up to a practice and a pastime that quite literally passes a lot of time. I tried it myself nearly a decade ago, and it took me all day–probably 6 hours total–just to stitch seven words. Web weaving textile artist Lyla […]
OK. So I thought last week’s gallery was to be the last of the eyeball fodder for 2019, but then something slightly sad and somewhat unexpected happened, and I re-evaluated. To make a long story short, 8tracks, a website I’ve been using for over a decade to create “mixtapes,” or playlists, or whatever you want […]
S. Elizabeth: I initially wrote the following on Christmas eve, over a decade ago, but have since made an annual tradition of trotting out the creepy old chestnut to share with friends and kindred spirits. I cannot envision a more like-minded bunch with which to share a ghostly Christmas tale than my Haute Macabre family, […]
@brookeshaden // Brooke Shaden @jeremyhush // Jeremy Hush “Keeper of Malady” by @christinamrozikart // Christina Mrozik “Viridity” by @annitamaslov // Annita Maslov @irinajoanne // Irina Joanne @tiffanyhsiang // Tiffany Hsiang @brokensundowns // Amy Haslehurst @misterfinchtextiles // Mister Finch Textiles
I’m forcing myself to dial back the feverish intensity for this week’s eyeball fodder because I absolutely do not want to come across as an unyielding tyrant and I don’t want to be off-putting or self-righteously sanctimonious or an annoying know-it-all. I don’t want to be any of those things and yet I am afraid […]
@jodiemuirart // Jodie Muir “The Search” by @curvilinear // Amy Abshier @her_dark_materials “The Reading” by @catrin_welzstein // Catrin Welz-Stein “Silver Star / It Flows Through You As I Melt” by @oliverhibert // Oliver Hibert @elizabeth_blair_stephenson // Elizabeth Blair Stephenson @oriolangrill // Oriol Angrill @ellenjanerogers // Ellen Rogers
The little deaths of Tutorero on Etsy: handmade miniature models of execution machines (some complete with the condemned & condemning) and alien abductions. I actually screamed “THE LITTLE HEAD!” when I saw this one. The Midnight Abduction is, without a doubt, my personal favorite. Find these execution and extraterrestrial models in Tutoreto’s shop on Etsy.
The month of October is a most marvelous time to see spooky new art emerge on social media while artists all over the world are participating in eerie seasonal 31-days challenges such as #Inktober or the #Mabsdrawlloweenclub…and I eagerly await its arrival every year! There’s such a fantastically diverse variety of styles and mediums, from […]
BloodMilk Presents: Obolus. Original artwork by Jamie Draven and Heather Gabel at Sphinx and Snakeskin in Philadelphia, with an opening reception November 1 from 5-10pm.
“Buckeye” by @darktownsally // Naisa Gomez “The May Queen” by @billsafi // Bill Crisafi @debishapirophotography // Debi Shapiro @stephanieinagaki // Stephanie Inagaki @dromsjel // Pierre Schmidt aka drømsjel @memorialstitches // Carrie Violet @maryannheld // Maryann Held
“Lines of Enchantment” by @masks_of_the_moon // Brynna Levine “In the Dead of Night” by @mynameistran // Tran Nguyen “A Dance in the Lepidoptera Room, 1911” by @benzandchang // Dave Benz “Through the Never” by @gailpotocki // Gail Potocki “Swarms and Swallows” by @jakemessing // Jake Messing “Keeper Of The Lilies” by @studio.sheridansart // Laura Sheridan […]
“The Eye Thief” by @i_justdraw // Allen Williams @helenaether // Helena Aguilar Mayans “Waxing” by @light_witch // Courtney Brooke “Cosmic Venus Bloom” by @yinshadowz // Meagan Boyd “femme fleur” by @_ofresia // monica merlo “Dutch III” by @lindseycarrart // Lindsey Carr “Elected” by @_grave_witness_ // Stuart Holland Bonus […]
“Querent” by @sydbeeart // Syd Bee @magpie.rodgers // Meagan Magpie Rodgers “Amare II” by @mjgs17 // Mariajosé Gallardo “Young Yaga” by @twistedmatter // Nadezda @hakannedjat // Hakannedjat “Totems” by @laurenmarxart // Lauren Marx “City of Earthly Delights” by @moon_patrol // Moon Patrol
Sarah Elizabeth’s carousel of inspiration. Follow her on Instagram @ghoulnextdoor. @jmalkova // Julia Malkova “Captured” by @_virginia_mori_ // Virginia Mori “The Find” (cropped) by @karilise // Kari-lise Alexander “Leda and the Swan” by @darla_tea // Darla Teagarden @majaeglicollages // Maja Egli @myr.illustration // Myriam Wares @nightjarillustration // Adam Burke […]
For the past year or so over in my Instagram stories, I’ve been sharing a collection of the art that tickles my eyeballs. Usually on a nightly basis, although sometimes I do get a little lazy about it. It’s a “semi-regular” thing at this point, I suppose you might say. I think this urge to […]
Here at Haute Macabre there’s no such thing as too many books. We each live surrounded by overflowing shelves and stacks of books, old and new, and exist between their covers. But some books aren’t made for reading, they’re made for aesthetic appreciation and today we’re coveting these dynamic book sculptures created by Italian contemporary artist Annalù Boeretto. Primarily […]
I had, for a time, sadly shelved the idea of a feature on digital collage artist Robin Isely, aka sliplead. I first mentioned this artist in my 2017 Needful Things roundup and I was immensely thrilled at the opportunity to connect with them for an interview, but unfortunately, their gorgeous Tumblr-hosted gallery–an obscurum of secrets, elusive […]
