Art
Actors Have Been Dying to Play the Skeletal Role of Yorick in 'Hamlet'
Reports last month suggested that the skull of playwright William Shakespeare was no longer in his grave.
Death
Art
Creating a Puppet Documentary for the Count Who Loved a Corpse
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.
Art
Connecting with Humanity in the Paris Catacombs
PARIS — We rarely experience the oceanic sensation of our bodies as continuous and equal with all other humans.
Art
Could NYC's Island of the Dead Become a Green Burial Park?
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.
News
Mementoes of Grief Go to Auction from the US's Only Museum for Mourning Art
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.
Art
Dealing with Death in an Evocative Game about Cancer
"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.
Art
Art that Acknowledges Death Without Showing the Body
Every autumn in New York, leaves fall, grass turns brittle, and people are reminded of death.
Art
Archeologists Discover 400-Year-Old Hearts in Lead Boxes
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.
Art
The 19th-Century Tomb That Inspired London’s Iconic Telephone Box
When you step into one of London's iconic red telephone boxes, you're entering the architecture of a tomb.
Art
350 Years After the Great Plague, Its Skeletal Reaper Remains
Death as a skeletal grim reaper was cemented as a symbol during the plagues in Europe, which stretched from the 14th to 18th centuries.
Art
A Guide to the 20th-Century Artists' Graves of New York City
Following our exploration of the artist graves in New York City from the 19th and early 20th centuries, we continue into the 20th and 21st centuries.
Books
The Lost Ritual of Photographing the Dead
Despite the current ubiquity of cameras, we rarely pause in our flurry of social media sharing to document one of the most significant events in all our lives: death.