News
Anarchy in the UK Art Market
All is not well in Albion, where the business of art is apparently getting ever more lugubrious.
Death
Books
Angels and the Dead: Reviving Occult Manuals
It seems like every few decades there is a mainstream revival for the occult and esoteric. Not that it ever fades away, but there is a periodic surge in fascination with the unknowable, the rites, rituals, and art that make up its history.
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.
News
Can a Town Be a Museum? The Battle Over Jim Thorpe's Bones
Jim Thorpe was arguably the greatest athlete of all time, yet the sports legend has mostly been in the news of late due to his remains, which were controversially buried in a town he never visited.
Opinion
The Kitsch of Death, or Andy Warhol's Birthday Livestream
Eighty-five years ago today, Andrej Varhola, Jr., was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He would go on to become the famous Andy Warhol, whose artwork decorates the walls of museums and, most recently, Perrier bottles. In honor of that birthday, the Andy Warhol Museum has set up a live webcam feed o
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
Death, Darkness, Alchemy, and Rebirth
I’ve always been attracted to the macabre in art and literature. I have a vivid memory of pronouncing Edgar Allen Poe my favorite author we had read that year in 7th grade; most of my classmates preferred Harper Lee or Mark Twain. While walking through the group exhibition A Wake: Still Lives and Mo