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Marking an Artist’s Forgotten Grave with His Own Sculpture of Death

Avatar photo by Allison Meier June 29, 2016June 29, 2016

The unmarked grave of 19th-century artist Thomas Crawford will soon be commemorated with the installation of one of his own sculptures at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.

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A Future Where the Decomposing Dead Could Power Cemetery Lights

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 19, 2016May 19, 2016

The dead are often visually absent from our cemeteries, buried below the ground with tombstones representing the invisible remains.

Posted inIn Brief

Cheery Skeleton Mosaic Found in Turkey Says, “Enjoy Your Life” [UPDATED]

Avatar photo by Allison Meier April 25, 2016April 28, 2016

Reclining by a wine jug and a portion of bread, a cup in one bony hand, the skeleton on a 3rd-century BCE mosaic discovered in Turkey has a simple message for its viewers: “Be cheerful, enjoy your life.”

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Climbing into a Mortuary Drawer to Smell the Scents of JFK’s Last Moments

Avatar photo by Allison Meier April 19, 2016August 3, 2021

In Famous Deaths, you experience the smells and sounds of the last four minutes of someone’s life, all while closed inside a metal mortuary drawer.

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Actors Have Been Dying to Play the Skeletal Role of Yorick in ‘Hamlet’

Avatar photo by Allison Meier April 12, 2016October 16, 2017

Reports last month suggested that the skull of playwright William Shakespeare was no longer in his grave.

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Creating a Puppet Documentary for the Count Who Loved a Corpse

Avatar photo by Allison Meier April 7, 2016April 7, 2016

The fact that he slept for seven years with the corpse of a woman he loved is, for filmmaker Ronni Thomas, one of the least interesting things about Count von Cosel.

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Connecting with Humanity in the Paris Catacombs

by Joseph Nechvatal March 17, 2016March 18, 2016

PARIS — We rarely experience the oceanic sensation of our bodies as continuous and equal with all other humans.

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Could NYC’s Island of the Dead Become a Green Burial Park?

Avatar photo by Allison Meier February 1, 2016February 1, 2016

Each year, hundreds of New Yorkers are buried in trenches dug deep in the soil of Hart Island, a sliver of forgotten land in the Long Island Sound off the eastern shore of the Bronx.

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Mementoes of Grief Go to Auction from the US’s Only Museum for Mourning Art

Avatar photo by Allison Meier January 20, 2016January 20, 2016

Art related to death in the United States evolved from European influences in the colonial era to a distinct language of mourning, guided by widespread grieving for public figures like the country’s presidents.

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Dealing with Death in an Evocative Game about Cancer

Avatar photo by Allison Meier January 13, 2016August 3, 2021

“We grieve in silence,” game maker Ryan Green says at one point in That Dragon, Cancer, an interactive experience based on the illness and eventual death of his son, Joel.

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Art that Acknowledges Death Without Showing the Body

Avatar photo by Allison Meier December 28, 2015December 28, 2015

Every autumn in New York, leaves fall, grass turns brittle, and people are reminded of death.

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Archeologists Discover 400-Year-Old Hearts in Lead Boxes

Avatar photo by Allison Meier December 11, 2015December 21, 2015

Five heart-shaped lead boxes dating to the 16th and 17th centuries were exhumed from the basement of the Convent of the Jacobins in Rennes, France.

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