Vote for your favorite Storefront Critical Halloween costume! (Photo by Jena Cumbo, Courtesy Storefront for Art and Architecture)
Where else would cartons of milk, Alice in Wonderland, and Courtney Love come together except at HOLES, this year’s Critical Halloween event thrown by the Storefront for Art and Architecture ?
The theme invited reflections on the voids in our material and political landscapes, and, of course, a fair range of NSFW puns. After all, holes “question our perceptions of matter and space, constructing, revealing, and inviting us to reflect upon what is real…and what is not.” This year, the party’s setting at the Museum of Sex provided a more than apt environment for play and disguise, with plenty of room for all the Andy Warhols and Yayoi Kusamas to gallavant alongside the Rhino Booleans and other missing, absent and broken sequences.
But, as always, the question that remains after the candy showers is: who did it best? Scroll through the candidates, click any thumbnail for a closer look, and select an option from the survey below. Then, click “Done” to cast your vote for the “People’s Choice” costume! Voting runs until Friday, November 10th, 11:59 pm EST . (All images are courtesy Storefront for Art and Architecture; they appear in the chronological order that guests registered.)
1: F-Hole.
2: Pigeon Holed! – Shan Raoufi.
3: Wholesome Architectural Detail: The Modesty Panel – Matt Mahon, Arup.
4: MAN(N)A-FORT: The Hole in Trump’s Administration – Kara Meyer.
5: Andy War-hole – Michelle Roelofs.
6: A Hole to See the Sky Through – Helen Searle.
7: Hole Train – Sergio Saucedo and Tetyana Saucedo.
8: Void – Merica May Jensen, Alex Knezo, and Yusiro Okamoto.
9: They’re Called Uility Access Covers – Annie and William.
10: Sexy Rabbit – Mario Stout.
11: Bain Meets the Truffula Tree – Star and Matt.
12: Andy Warhole – Eva Franch i Gilabert.
13: Mamma Mia! – Tania and Felipe.
14: Negative Space – Aditya Ghosh.
15: Monarch’s Best Friend – Will Garris and Associates.
16: Down the Rabbit Hole – Zim Seferi and Natalie Pierro.
17: The Universe – Johanna Grazel.
18: Architectural Poché – Emau Vega.
19: Holy Light – Henry Pemberton.
20: Conceptual Art Holes – Francesca Girardi and Aaron Mark.
21: American Exodus: A Russian Hole in the Border Wall – Max Lauter and Alina Bibisheva.
22: Rhino Boolean – Steven Holl Architects.
23: Trypophobia – Karen Bookatz and Colin Curley.
24: The Assholes Who Came Without Costumes – Valentin Spiess and Lukas Fitze.
25: Flower – Laura Berglund.
26: Policy Holes – Charles Renfro.
27: Dystopic Dive Bar – Savinien, Liana, and David.
28: The Big Lebowski (Pins and Holes) – Al-Hamad Design.
29: Post No Bills – Jay Lemire.
30: Eclipse – Robert A.M. Stern Architects.
31: Holey-Roley (Rolex Learning Center) aka “Swiss Cheese” – Kate Chen and Ainslie Cullen.
32: A Couple of A-holes – Anna and Rachel, BIG NYC.
33: Threshold – Sebastian Grogaard.
34: Hole-y Fuck! – Sameera Razak and Tony-Saba Shiber.
35: Let There Be Light! – Evalynn Rosado
36: Courtney Love from Hole as Einstein in a Black Hole – Rob Daurio.
37: Kusamas with Pumpkin – WXY Architecture + Urban Design.
38: Holistic – Margery Perlmutter.
39: Section Through the Rabbit Hole – Karen Miller.
40: Casper the Millenial Ghost – Eric Schwartau.
41: Tangled Buds – Ian Faden.
42: Hole, The Group by Courtney Love – Karen Maass.
43: Assholes – Bo Liu and Rosannah Sandoval.
44: Solar Eclipse – Emma and Daniela Gilsanz.
45: Holey Ghost – SO-IL.
46: Jon Snow from Game of Thrones – Angel Castro.
47: Mystery Masked Lady – Mikki Heckman.
48: 15 Minutes Meets 60 Minutes (Andy & Andy) – Cara Brownell and Paul Naprstek.
49: Living Hole in the Wall – Maria Aiolova.
50: Hole – Natasha Jen, Pentagram.
51: Adolf Loos Speaking Into the Void – Luca Smith Senise.
52: Peep Hole/ Take a Look – Ines Esnal and Miguel de Guzman.
53: The Black Hole – Eileen Armella.
54: Frutalis Vaginius – Martina Carbone.
55: Toilet Seat – Marlene Guraieb.
56: Groot – Melody Benitez.
57: Holy Shit – Daniel Ayat .
58: Hole in One – Deniz .
59: The Slow Reveal.
60: Hole Foods – Henningstrassburger Strassburger.
61: Twin Black Holes with Stardust – Friends in Space.
62: Courtney Loves – Felix Burrichter and Beatrice Galilee.
63: Ninja Kusama – Yu-Yang Huang.
64: Kusama and Her Reflections/ Points of Entry – Once–Future Office.
65: Black Hole – Hank Mezza.
66: Whole Milk – Kevin Hennessey.
67: A Couple of Assholes – B & A.
68: Weep Holes – FXFOWLE.
69: Eat Me – Julie Wright.
70: Ozone Gangbang – Nan Ni.
71: Hole in the Fence / Hole in the Ground – Lizzie Himmel.
72: Downtown LA Starchitecture – Ben Jones and Anna Kuchera.
73: Hole-In-Wonder – Frank Wang.
74: Blow Here.
75: Red Neck.
76: Peep Hole – Angelica Giannoulatou.
77: Belt Hole – Cecil Barnes.
78: The Honeycomb Conjecture – Jinny Khanduja.