The Act of Killing, and the 3 Most Frightening and Surreal Best Documentary Oscars From Years Past
The Oscars are coming up, and few who saw the film will likely be surprised that The Act of Killing has been nominated for Best ...
Category: Death in Art
Thought You Had A Scary Halloween Costume? Return of the “Plague Doctor” Mask
One of the scariest costumes of all time seems to be staging a comeback: the plague doctor. Plague doctors tended to victims of the Bubonic ...
Imagine A Future Where We Record Our Own Deaths On Tiny Video Cameras Implanted In Our Foreheads
What will it be like to live in a world where we all record our own deaths on tiny video cameras implanted in our foreheads? We ...
How Do You Clean a Skull? – Interview with Son of a Skeleton Tycoon
Not only is there a company called Skulls Unlimited International, they even have their own museum!
Serial Killer Art And Homemade Guillotines – Interview with the World’s Most Provocative Museum Owners
JD Healy and Cathee Shultz once built their own guillotine. The couple now runs the Museum of Death, in Los Angeles.
How Napoleon’s “Death Mask” got to New Orleans
The French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte is buried in a crypt in Paris but if you want to see his “death mask” you need only go ...
Skull art, from Damien Hirst to the streets of São Paulo
If you were to drive through the tunnel in the Brazilian megacity of São Paulo that connects Avenida Cidade Jardim to Avenida Europa in 2006 ...
Trashy tabloid murder photos come to fancy NYC gallery
There is the man sprawled on the sidewalk outside a café in a pool of blood with a gun and a top hat beside him. ...
Interview with playwright Eric Coble, whose boobytrapped Brooklyn mother teaches a lesson on dying with grace
Eric Coble has written and produced plays on Edgar Allen Poe, Pinocchio and Pecos Bill; his latest, Velocity of Autumn, is about an elderly Brooklyn ...
Are New York tourists sipping coffee beside tortured corpses of Chinese prisoners?
In the middle of downtown New York City, just blocks from Wall Street and right beside a row of sunny cafes where tourists sit along ...
Mexican death art, both joyous and horrific, comes to New York City
There is a large face without skin, just bare muscles and eyes wide open and staring. In a cavern-like lair are a group of naked ...
Photos of decomposing bodies shock Virginia
Seven slender bones, chipped and splotched, some even burnt, lined up neatly on a table. A young boy with eyes wide open, they are bright ...
Want a necklace made of fingertips?
A necklace of phalanges costs $165 and a cross of metacarpal goes for $80 on Columbine Phoenix’s website.
Transform mother’s corpse into Mona Lisa
"Families wanting a lasting celebration of their loved ones’ memories can now consult with an international artist who will lovingly mix a portion of their ...
Michael Jackson’s death is good for umbrella sales
Jumillah Galvez sold 72 Michael T-shirts in 30 minutes earlier this week but now all anyone seems to care about is when the next batch ...
