Performance
An After-Midnight Murder Mystery Takes Place in a Cemetery
How do you get people to see theater in a Bronx cemetery at three in the morning? Don't tell them where they're going.
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News
Museum Archive Leads Bronx Students to Forgotten Slave Burial Ground
Major online archives of accessible images have become regular news out of museums, and part of the reason is stories like this: elementary school kids in the South Bronx have used a photograph from one of those archives to bring about historic recognition for a long-forgotten slave burial ground.
Art
Radically Rethinking the Architecture of Death
What happens when you die? Well, in a literal way, what happens to everyone else. You're likely to have a traditional, costly, funeral, and then a small slot of land in a quiet sprawl of cemetery will be yours.
Art
A Visit to an Overlooked Folk Art Cave of Crystals
MEMPHIS — Secreted in a cemetery in Memphis is a meditative work of 1930s folk art, a man-made cave created from five tons of quartz crystal and a unique process of turning concrete to wood.
Art
The Tombs of Artists: A Last Statement From the Grave
As a last final statement, artists' tombstones don't disappoint. From the wildly eccentric to those that incorporate their own creations, the graves of artists are a fascinating reflection of their work.
Art
When Will There Be a Memorial for NYC's Second African Burial Ground?
It took two centuries for the African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan to be remembered, when 18th century bones were found interred in a forgotten cemetery beneath the construction of a new high dollar federal development in 1991. While that long-overlooked cemetery is now remembered with a museum
Art
Redesigning Death
For the amount of time that people have been dying, which is quite long really, our designs for death haven't changed as much as our designs for everything else.
Art
Finding Hidden Stories in Tombstone Art
OKLAHOMA CITY — Military cemeteries seem incredibly uniform with the simple headstones showing little more than rank, name, the dates of life, and a symbol of religion. Yet there are still some hidden messages in the stones. This is especially true in a place like Fort Sill, where Buffalo Soldiers,
Art
Manhattan's Art of the Dead
New York City's population of the dead, like its living souls, has mostly relocated to the outer boroughs due the overcrowding and high real estate prices of Manhattan. Many of the island's cemeteries were exhumed (although the bodies were not necessarily all collected, resulting in some skeletons l