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Manuel Manilla, Mexican Engraver: Guest Post by Morbid Anatomy Museum's...
To celebrate day of the dead, following is a guest post by Morbid Anatomy Museum's Cristina Preda devoted to Mexican artist Manuel Manilla, a contemporary of the much better known José Guadalupe...
View ArticleThe Curious Intersections of Death And Beauty: Taped Tedx Talk by Morbid...
Above you will find a video of a recent Tedx talk by Morbid Anatomy's creator Joanna Ebenstein. You can also watch it here. Text below from Tedx website. Hope you enjoy!When you think of death, what...
View ArticleHelp The Morbid Anatomy Museum Keep its Doors Open
Why support Morbid Anatomy? Click the play button above or this link to see our filmmaker in residence Ronni Thomas' take on that question.Dear Friends,We are writing to ask for your support in keeping...
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RIP MORBID ANATOMY MUSEUM
We regret very much to inform you that our most recent project--the Morbid Anatomy Museum--has ceased operations.We are incredibly grateful to the many people--presenters, enthusiasts, teachers,...
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Eulogy to The Morbid Anatomy Museum: Guest Post by Scholar in Residence Evan...
Below is a lovely eulogy to the now sadly defunct Morbid Anatomy Museum by good friend, scholar in residence, collaborator, co-curator, partner in crime and board member Evan Michelson. It really...
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Dissectable Anatomical Wax Venus from the Workshop of Rudolf Pohl, Münchner...
One thinks of Anatomical Venuses as an 18th and 19th century phenomenon, but here is material proof that they continued to be made at least until as the early 1930s. This dissectible life-sized wax...
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Morbid Anatomy Vienna Anatomy Weekend at the Narrenturm Pathological Museum...
The Morbid Anatomy Vienna Anatomy Weekend schedule has been finalized, with special tours, backstage access and lectures at two incredible medical museums, the Narrenturm, with its spectacular...
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Count Carl Von Cosel - Beyond Death: Guest Post by Filmmaker in Residence...
People like Von Cosel live so far outside our materialist world that it’s hard for them to even perceive ’normal'. They challenge reality without effort, inhabiting in a world of their own design....
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Anatomical Venuses and Pathological Moulages at This Weekend's Vienna Anatomy...
This weekend in Vienna, Morbid Anatomy is joining forces with two astounding Viennese medical museums--The Josephinum and The Narrenturm--for our first ever Vienna Anatomy Weekend!The...
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Kapuziner Crypt (Kapuzinergruft): Housing the Bodies of the Habsburg Royal...
Kapuziner Crypt (Kapuzinergruft), where the bodies of the Habsburg royal family are stored. — in Vienna, Austria. From a visit yesterday with dear friend and wax sculptor Eleanor Crook.
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Friendly Demons Frolic in a Satanic Farandole: Book Review of "Graven Images:...
Below is a book review by Morbid Anatomy's Laetitia Barbier for the soon to be released Graven Images: The Art of Woodcut. All above images are drawn from the book; you can find out more about it--and...
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"Death: A Graveside Companion" New Art Book Exploring the Intersections of...
My new book Death: A Graveside Companion will be published by Thames and Hudson this October. A large scale picture book of nearly 400 pages, it contains over 1,000 images--many never before published,...
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Niño del Consuelo, Figurine, Mexico City
This wonderful figurine, from Mexico City and sourced by our friend Daisy Tainton, depicts the miraculous Niño del Consuelo, or The Holy Child of Consolation. It is a copy of a miraculous 18th century...
View ArticleHuehue Dance of Puebla, Mexico
I stumbled across this dance--called The Huehue (or so a bemused resident explained)--on a recent trip to Puebla, Mexico. It said that one of the main characters of this dance is always the devil, as...
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Day Long Symposium on Art and Death at Brooklyn's Greenwood Cemetery, October 28
Attention New Yorkers: On Saturday, October 28, we will be hosting a day-long symposium dedicated to the intersections of art and death at Green-Wood Cemetery to celebrate the publication of Death: A...
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As Far as the Eye Can Travel : A Miniature Photographic Cabinet of...
Chiara Ambrosio--a good friend of Morbid Anatomy and a contributor to our recent Morbid Anatomy Anthology--has created a charming, miniature series of zines she describes as a "paper Wunderkammer."More...
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Morbid Anatomy News and Happenings: Book, Events, Utopia / Dystopia Series...
Greetings!We have lots of exciting news and events to announce today.First up is the new book Death: A Graveside Companion, editedby Morbid Anatomy founder Joanna Ebenstein. This nearly 400 page book...
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Poster for Fritz Lang film Totentanz, or The Dance of Death, Josef Fenneker,...
Poster for the lost Fritz Lang film Totentanz, or The Dance of Death, 1919. The film tells the tale of a beautiful dancer who is “used by an evil cripple to entice men to their deaths.” The idea of the...
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Happy All Saints Day with a the Corpus Sanctus of Saint Victoria, Rome
In commemoration of All Saints Day, we share with you one of our all-time favorite pieces of Catholica related to the cult of the saints. Called a Corpus Sanctus, it is a life-sized effigy of Saint...
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NEW BOOK: SÉANCE: Spiritualist Ritual and the Search for Ectoplasm: All Souls...
To celebrate All Souls Day today, I asked former Morbid Anatomy Museum artist and scholar in residence Shannon Taggart to write a guest post about her long term project documenting spiritualism, a...
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