The Morbid Anatomy Museum is now open every day (including tomorrow, the 4th of July!) from 12-6 (excepting Tuesdays), and we would like to announce a number of events which we hope will tempt you to come out and see the new space!
First off, we hope to see you at our (back by popular demand!) singles night, taking place this Monday July 7th, and excitingly supported by our sponsor Hendrick's Gin.
We also have three offerings from this month's "Artist and Anatomist in Residence" Emily Evans, fresh in from her home in London. Over the course of her stay, she will be speaking on "The Beauty of Anatomy in Contemporary Art" (Wednesday, July 9); leading a free (!!!) Kid’s Anatomy Workshop (Sunday, July 20); and hosting A Night of Art, Anatomy and Pop Culture with Street Anatomy’s Vanessa Ruiz of the blog Street Anatomy (Friday, July 25th).
We have also just added a number of illustrated lectures by one of our favorite bon vivants of the Powerpoint stage, Morbid Anatomy August Scholar in Residence John Troyer, Ph.D. of the Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath. Over the course of his tenure, he will elucidate us on "Future Dead Body Technology" (Wednesday, August 6); Memorial tattoos (Morbid Ink: The Permanence of Memorial Tattoos; Wednesday, August 13); the fascinating world of necrophilia laws in the USA (Abusing the Corpse: Understanding Necrophilia Laws in the USA; Wednesday, August 20); and "The Future of Death" (The Future is Death and Death is the Future: Technology, Politics, and the Dead Body; Wednesday, August 27). Stay tuned also for a film night and other offerings to be added shortly.
Other newly announced events include the heavily illustrated lecture "From 'Holy Gore' to Santa Muerte: Death and Catholicism in Mexico" by Kurt Hollander of Several Ways to Die in Mexico City (Tuesday, July 22); a narrated magic lantern show with original 1880s projectors, moving panoramas, and more (The Arctic Theatre Royal, A Magic Lantern Show by The Wonder Show; Friday, August 1) and two lectures by "Egyptologist in Residence" Ava Forte Vitali of the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Ancestor Cults in the Ancient World (Thursday, August 28) and Fur-Ever Friends: Animal Mummies (Thursday, September 25).
Also coming up are such events as The Skeleton Crew: Forensic Science and the Identification of the Unnamed Dead: an Illustrated lecture and catered book party with MIT's Deborah Halber and retired NYPD detective sergeant John Paolucci (Tuesday, July 8); Demonically Possessed Cats, an illustrated lecture with Dr. Paul Koudounaris (Thursday, August 7); Industrial Ladies: An Illustrated Lecture by Evan Michelson of Science Channel's Oddities (Thursday, September 11); Halloween: The Curious Story of America's Most Horrible Holiday with Lesley Bannatyne, author of Halloween: An American Holiday, An American History (Sunday, October 26th); Monsters on the Brain: A Natural History of Horror, an illustrated lecture with Professor Stephen T. Asma, author of Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads and On Monsters (Thursday, October 30); AND the second iteration of our Mexican Day of the Dead field trip: Muerte en Mexico curated, organized and guided by Mexican writer and Morbid Anatomy Scholar in Residence Salvador Olguín (October 31-November 4; must register by July 15).
And, for those who prefer to learn arcane skills, we have a number of excellent workshops including Snake Skeleton Articulation with Evolution Store Skeleton Preparator Amanda Lee (THIS Saturday, July 5th); Butterfly Preservation Workshop with Taxidermist in Residence Divya Anantharaman (THIS Sunday, July 6); Frederik Ruysch Wet Specimen Workshop (Sunday, July 13th); The Skull Beneath the Skin: Drawing the Human Skull with NYU's Chris Muller with real human skulls loaned by Ryan Mathew Cohn of TV's Oddities (Saturday, July 19); a Dissection and Drawing Workshop with Real Anatomical Specimens with physical anthropologist Samuel Strong Dunlap, PhD (Saturday, July 26) and a Carbon Dust Drawing Workshop, Featuring Real Anatomical Specimens Drawing class with Board Certified Medical Illustrator Marie Dauenheimer, MA, CMI (Sunday, July 27); a class in the Victorian Art of Hair Jewelry with Art Historian and Master Jeweler Karen Bachmann (Saturday, August 2); Anthropomorphic Mouse (One or Two Headed!) Taxidermy Class with Divya Anantharaman (Sunday, August 3); and finally, Fancy Chicken Taxidermy Class with Taxidermist in Residence Divya Ananthamaran (Saturday, August 23).
More info follows on all events. For longer descriptions, visit our brand new website calendar (!!!) by clicking here. For a good introduction to The Museum and its inaugural exhibit, check out this piece in last week's New York Times. Hope to see you at the new museum soon!
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Snake Skeleton Articulation with Evolution Store Skeleton Preparator Amanda Lee
Date: THIS Saturday, July 5th
Time: 12pm to 6pm
Admission: $200 (Tickets here)
In this class, students will learn about the techniques and tricks of processing and articulating skeletons—including bone defleshing methods, chemical cleaning, and an overview of skeletal anatomy as it pertains to articulation—while posing and framing a specimen of their very own.
More here.
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Butterfly Preservation Workshop with Taxidermist in Residence Divya Anantharaman
Date: THIS Sunday, July 6th
Time: 12pm – 3pm
Price: $90 (includes all materials for use in class, students go home with their own prepared butterfly, a spreading board that can be used for future projects, display case for the finished piece, and the knowledge to create their own pieces in the future)
Tickets here
In this beginners class, students will learn everything about basic butterfly preparation. Students will also build their very own spreading boards for use in class and beyond and leave class with their own finished piece and the knowledge to make more in the future.
More here.
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Morbid Curiosity: A Morbid Anatomy Singles Night
Date: Monday, July 7th
Time: 8:00
Admission: $15 (Sponsored by Hendrick’s Gin! Tickets here)
A Singles night for the Morbid Anatomy community. Games, drinks, fun and possible mayhem!
More here.
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The Skeleton Crew: Forensic Science and the Identification of the Unnamed Dead
Illustrated lecture and book party with MIT’s Deborah Halber and retired NYPD detective sergeant John Paolucci
Date: Tuesday, July 8
Time: 8:00 PM
Admission: $8 (Tickets here)
***Copies of Skeleton Crew will be available for sale and signing
Tonight join author author Deborah Halber and retired NYPD detective sergeant John Paolucci for an evening exploring what happens when human remains—victims of homicides, suicides and accidents–cannot be identified. The talk, book signing and wine-and-cheese reception mark the release of Deborah Halber’s narrative nonfiction book, "The Skeleton Crew: How Amateur Sleuths Are Solving America’s Coldest Cases."
More here.
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The Beauty of Anatomy in Contemporary Art
An Illustrated Lecture with Morbid Anatomy Artist and Anatomist in Residence Emily Evans
Date: Wednesday, July 9
Time: 8:00
Admission: $8 (Tickets here)
Anatomy has become a hot topic in contemporary art over the last decade. But just what is it that makes a great piece of anatomical art? And what makes anatomical art so fascinating to some and so disturbing to others? In tonight’s talk, Morbid Anatomy Artist and Anatomist in Residence Emily Evans will investigate these questions via a survey anatomical artworks ranging from the historically beautiful to the contemporary controversial, such as the plastinated bodies of Gunther Von Hagens and the provocative works of Damien Hirst.
More here.
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From Hippocrates to Freud: Highlights from Columbia University’s Health Sciences Library, a Guided Tour with Stephen E. Novak, head of archives and special collectionsDate: Saturday, July 12th
Time: 3pm to 4.30pm
Admission: $15 (Tickets here)
Special field trip to Columbia University’s Health Sciences Library for a guided tour of their historical medical books with Stephen E. Novak, head of archives and special collections.
More here.
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Frederik Ruysch Wet Specimen Workshop, with Mark Batelli, Wet Specimen Restorer at Obscura Antiques
Date: Sunday, July 13th
Time: 1:00 PM – 6 PM
Admission $100 (Limited to 8 students; Tickets here)
In this workshop, artist and wet specimen restorer Mark Batelli will teach students how to preserve and prepare specimens in an educational, allegorical and artful manner inspired by the work of Dutch anatomist Frederik Ruysch (1638 – 1731).
More here.
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Understanding the Aspective Art of Ancient Egypt
Illustrated lecture with Ava Forte Vitali, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Date: Thursday, July 17
Time: 8:00 PM
Admission: $8 (Tickets here)
This illustrated lecture with Egyptologist in Residence Ava Forte Vitali will explain the cultural reasoning behind this style of depiction, the link between Egyptian art and the written word, and will provicde you with the knowledge to interpret almost any piece of Egyptian art, and impress friends on museum visits for years to come!
More here.
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The Skull Beneath the Skin: Drawing the Human Skull with NYU’s Chris Muller
Skull drawing with real human skulls loaned by Ryan Mathew Cohn of TV’s Oddities
Date: Saturday, July 19
Time: 1 – 4 PM
Admission: $30 (Tickets here)
This class is part of The Morbid Anatomy Art Academy
The Morbid Anatomy Art Academy offers a workshop on drawing the skull, both from observation and from the imagination."
More here.
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Free Kid’s Anatomy Workshop with Morbid Anatomy Artist and Anatomist in Residence Emily Evans
Date: Sunday, July 20
Time: 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Admission: FREE
Today, stop by The Morbid Anatomy Museum to enjoy an excellent cup of coffee and browse of the museum while Artist and Anatomist in Residence Emily Evans teaches your kids how to make their own anatomical artworks!
More here.
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From “Holy Gore” to Santa Muerte: Death and Catholicism in Mexico
Illustrated lecture with Kurt Hollander, author/photographer of Several Ways to Die in Mexico City: An Autobiography of Death in Mexico City
Date: Tuesday, July 22
Time: 8 pm
Admission: $8 (Tickets here)
In tonight’s heavily illustrated lecture, Kurt Hollander–Mexico City-based author and photographer of Several Ways to Die in Mexico City–will discuss images of death in Mexico city, beginning with what he terms Mexico’s “holy gore”–the unusually macabre and violent religious statues–and ending with la Santa Muerte, Mexico’s newest cult saint worshiped by the criminal class and the disenfranchised and loathed by the Catholic church.
More here.
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Street Anatomy: A Night of Art, Anatomy and Pop Culture with Street Anatomy’s Vanessa Ruiz
An Illustrated Lecture with Vanessa Ruiz, creator of the blog Street Anatomy
Date: Friday, July 25th
Time: 8pm
Admission: $8 (Tickets here)
Tonight, join Morbid Anatomy Museum Artist and Anatomist in Residence Emily Evans and Street Anatomy founder Vanessa Ruiz for an illustrated discussion which will range from the current state of anatomical art and its expanding community to the ways in which fostering relationships with artists helps connect and strengthen this niche subject.
More here.
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Dissection and Drawing Workshop with Real Anatomical Specimens Samuel Strong Dunlap, PhD
Date: Saturday, July 26
Time: 10:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Admission: $60 (Tickets here)
In today’s workshop we will dissect and draw human hands (Homo sapiens) and the forelimb of Didelphis virginiana, the North American opossum. The opossum is considered to be a good model for a basl – i.e. early or original – mammal. Many comparative skeletal materials will be available for examination and illustration, and additional specimens may also be available.
More here.
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Carbon Dust Drawing Workshop Featuring Real Anatomical Specimens with Marie Dauenheimer
Date: Sunday, July 27
Time: 10:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Class size limited to 15
Admission: $75 (includes materials cost)
Tickets here
In today's workshop, learn the art of carbon dust illustration, a technique perfected by medical artist Max Brodel at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the late 19th century. This technique–which, until the digital age, was an essential component of medical illustration education–allows the artist to create luminous, textural, three-dimensional drawings by layering carbon dust on prepared paper.
More here.
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The Arctic Theatre Royal, A Magic Lantern Show by The Wonder Show
Narrated Magic Lantern Show with original projectors, moving panoramas, and more
Date: Friday, August 1
Time: 8 pm
Admission: $15 (Tickets here)
The Arctic Theatre Royal is a narrated magic lantern show incorporating original 1880s magic lantern projectors, a hand-cranked moving panorama, recorded music, and other media. The piece was inspired by materials found in the Providence Athenaeum’s Travel and Exploration collection.
More here.
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The Victorian Art of Hair Jewelry
Workshop with Art Historian and Master Jeweler Karen Bachmann
Date: Saturday, August 2nd
Time: 1 – 5 PM
Admission: $100 (Tickets here)
Hair jewelry was an enormously popular form of commemorative art that began in the late 17th century and reached its zenith during the Victorian Era. Hair, either of someone living or deceased, was encased in metal lockers or woven to enshrine the human relic of a loved one. This class will explore a modern take on the genre.
More here.
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Anthropomorphic Mouse (One or Two Headed!) Taxidermy Class with Divya Anantharaman
Date: Sunday August 3rd
Time: 12pm – 5pm
Price: $110 one headed/$125 two headed (includes all materials for use in class, students go home with their own finished piece, and the knowledge to create their own pieces in the future)
Tickets here
In this class, students will learn to create–from start to finish–anthropomorphic mice inspired by the charming and imaginative work of Victorian taxidermist Walter Potter.
More here.
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Future Dead Body Technology
Illustrated lecture by John Troyer, Ph.D., Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath and Morbid Anatomy Scholar in Residence
Date: Wednesday, August 6
Time: 8pm
Admission: $8 (Tickets here)
This illustrated talk with John Troyer, Ph.D., Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath and Morbid Anatomy Scholar in Residence will discuss the present and future technologies surrounding the human corpse.
More here.
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Demonically Possessed Cats: Illustrated Lecture with Dr. Paul Koudounaris
Date: Thursday, August 7
Time: 8:00
Admission: $8 (Tickets here)
**Copies of Empire of Death and Heavenly Bodies will be available for sale and signing
Tonight's illustrated lecture by Dr. Paul Koudounaris--author of Empire of Death and Heavenly Bodies--will trace the history of demonically-possessed cats. Felines were once considered by theologians to be easy prey for demons, who could enter their bodies and wreck incredible havoc on mankind. And did you know . . . demonically-possessed cats are still believed to be with us today!
More here.
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Morbid Ink: The Permanence of Memorial Tattoos
Illustrated lecture by John Troyer, Ph.D., Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath and Morbid Anatomy Scholar in Residence
Date: Wednesday, August 13
Time: 8pm
Admission: $8 (Tickets here)
This illustrated talk with John Troyer, Ph.D., Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath and Morbid Anatomy Scholar in Residence will discuss the fascinating world of "memorial tattoos," or tattoos in memory of the deceased.
More here.
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Abusing the Corpse: Understanding Necrophilia Laws in the USA
Illustrated lecture by John Troyer, Ph.D., Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath and Morbid Anatomy Scholar in Residence
Date: Wednesday, August 20
Time: 8pm
Admission: $8 (Tickets here)
This illustrated talk with John Troyer, Ph.D., Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath and Morbid Anatomy Scholar in Residence will discuss the surprising world of laws around necrophilia.
More here.
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Fancy Chicken Taxidermy Class with Taxidermist in Residence Divya Ananthamaran
Date: Saturday August 23rd
Time: 12pm – 6pm
Price: $400 (includes all materials)
Tickets here
In this workshop, students will be immersed in the world of the fancy chicken and classic bird taxidermy. They will leave class with a finished piece and knowledge to make their own pieces in the future.
More here.
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The Future is Death and Death is the Future: Technology, Politics, and the Dead Body
Illustrated lecture by John Troyer, Ph.D., Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath and Morbid Anatomy Scholar in Residence
Date: Wednesday, August 27
Admission: $8 (Tickets here)
This illustrated lecture with John Troyer, Ph.D., Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath and Morbid Anatomy Scholar in Residence will explore the present and the future technologies of the dead body.
More here.
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Ancestor Cults in the Ancient World
Illustrated lecture with Ava Forte Vitali, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Date: Thursday, August 28
Time: 8:00 PM
Admission: $8 (Tickets here)
This illustrated lecture with Egyptologist in Residence Ava Forte Vitali will discuss the many different ways the dead interacted with the living in ancient Egypt and the way the living interacted with the dead, from household cults, to festivals, and even a fairly active postal system of letters to the afterworld.
More here.
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Industrial Ladies
Illustrated Lecture by Evan Michelson, Morbid Anatomy Library Scholar in Residence, TV's Oddities
Date: Thursday, September 11
Time: 8:00 PM
Admission: $8 (Tickets here)
Illustrated lecture about uncanny and fascinating early 19th wax department store mannequins by Evan Michelson, Morbid Anatomy Library Scholar in Residence, TV's Oddities.
More here.
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Fur-Ever Friends: Animal Mummies
Illustrated lecture with Ava Forte Vitali, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Date: Thursday, September 25
Time: 8:00 PM
Admission: $8 (Tickets here)
This illustrated lecture with Egyptologist in Residence Ava Forte Vitali will discuss the variety of reasons the Egyptians had for mummifying animals, the ways in which they did it, and sometimes – the ways in which they scammed their unsuspecting clients!
More here.
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Halloween: The Curious Story of America’s Most Horrible Holiday
Illustrated Lecture by Lesley Bannatyne, author of Halloween: An American Holiday, An American History
Date: Sunday, October 26th
Time: 8:00 PM (Tickets here)
Admission: $8
Tonight, join Halloween scholar Lesley Bannatyne as she traces our onetime children’s holiday-turned-blood-and-guts carnival from its tiny origins in northwestern Europe through its recent explosion in popularity in the States.
More here.
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Monsters on the Brain: A Natural History of Horror
Illustrated lecture with Professor Stephen T. Asma, author of Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads and On Monsters
Date: Thursday, October 30
Time: 8 pm
Admission: $8 (Tickets here)
In this talk Professor Stephen Asma–author of On Monsters–will use horror as an interdisciplinary bridge between humanities and scientific methodologies —a kind of case study for triangulating philosophy, psychology and biology. Recent research into the neuroscience of fear and cognition will be applied to some of the perennial monsters of our imagination.
More here.
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Muerte en Mexico: A Special Field Trip to Mexico City and Oaxaca for for Day of the Dead to Visit Sites Important to the History of Death in Mexico
Dates: October 31 – November 4 2014 (**Must reserve by July 15)
$675.00 USD (includes all hotels in double-rooms, luxury ground transportation, museum admissions, guided visits, and breakfasts; airfares not included); email info@borderlineprojects.com to reserve a space. Please send payments via PayPal to: info@borderlineprojects.com.
A 4-day trip to Mexico City and Oaxaca for Day of the Dead; curated, organized and guided by Mexican writer and scholar Salvador Olguín for Borderline Projects, and Morbid Anatomy. Includes day of the dead celebrations, markets, churches, luxury bus travel, hotels, tickets to museums and breakfasts.
More here.
Images top to bottom:
- Jesus Statue, Mexico; Kurt Hollander
- “The Anatomist (Der Anatom),” Gabriel von Max, 1869
- Lantern slide from The Arctic Theatre Royal, A Magic Lantern Show by The Wonder Show
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