Saturday 19 April 2014

Learning To Love Death: New Museum Takes A Walk On The Shadow Side

image credit: Morbid Anatomy

Morbid Anatomy - a blog, library, curiosity gallery, and lecture series dedicated to the places where death and beauty intersect - often revels in the macabre, albeit in a thoughtful, intellectual way. Thanks to its swelling popularity, Morbid Anatomy is expanding into a three-story, 4,200-square-foot museum in Brooklyn this spring.

Collectors Weekly talked to founder Joanna Ebenstein about her strange fascinations with Santa Muetre, the holy saint of death; medical specimens; depictions of deformity and disease; superstition and paranormal research.

(thanks Lisa)

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