Day of the Dead Takes on the World
The day after Halloween, and the day after that, is Day of the Dead, and the ancient festival, to use a modern word, is trending.
Category: Death in Art
Stolen Skull Repatriations – Inside A Modern Museum Controversy
Stolen human remains and the ceremony of death are at the heart of a modern museum controversy. As people go about and enjoy the holidays ...
Must-See Funerary Films You May Have Missed
Oscar season has passed, the pandemic may be nearing an end, and Summer is just around the corner. It seems like a good time to ...
Drama in the Tombs: Cemetery Theater Takes Center Stage
America is divided. Cremations are up, burials are down, and one group of people appears to be running from cemeteries as fast as they can, moving ...
My Rock n Roll Dad: A Unique Story of Remembrance
The year is 1969. Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. have recently been assassinated. Riots have swept many large American cities. And now ...
Beware! Beware the Ides of March
Well, it's that day again: March 15. Also known as the Ides of March, we're supposed to beware. Why? What's so ominous about March 15? ...
Nola Death Tête-à-tête – Pirate’s Alley Artist Nathan Durapau
Nathan Durapau, 24, Pirate's Alley artist. "I was born and raised in Mexico. My parents were missionaries and I spent the first 12 years of my ...
Artist James Gurney Issues A Grave Challenge
What do dinosaurs and graveyards have in common? Aside from reduction to skeletal remains and inspiration for Halloween costumes, the surprising connection is famed artist ...
Dylan Thomas and That Good Night
Had Dylan Thomas lived he would have turned 100 on October 27th, 2014. He died on November 9, 1953 in New York. Thomas was known not ...
The Man Who Saves Graves – How John Fogerty, Bonnie Raitt and a former vintage guitar dealer named Skip Henderson helped preserve Mississippi’s Blues
Mississippi is red dirt, green fields, crumbling small towns and looping muddy rivers overhung by thick forest, like mini Amazons, but if you take a ...
Photographing The Toughest Of Moments With Shaun Connell
There is something special about UK-based photographer Shaun Connell's work. It could be the lighting, the expression that is captured at just the right moment, or ...
How Do You Feel About Being Turned Into Compost When You Die?
Would you want to be turned into compost when you die? You may soon have that option. With her Urban Death Project, designer Katrina Spade has been working on a ...
Afraid To Talk About Death? This Exhibit Might Change Your Mind
Afraid To Talk About Death? This Exhibit Might Change Your Mind By NEAL CHARNOFF, VPR News It’s natural that people, for the most part, do not like ...
Death on the Streets of New Orleans, with a futuristic pirate type individual named “You Who”
I found You Who squatting over a row of trash bags on Royal Street, picking through shiny gold and purple streamers, which matched his purple ...
The Distance Between Art and Death – An Interview with Visual Artist Susan Silas
There is something sacred about taking a walk, seeing the places others have seen, following in the footsteps of another’s journey. Your own images leave ...
