Photographer Nan Goldin’s legendary Ballad of Sexual Dependency slideshow was meant to dazzle and depress at Rio de Janeiro’s Oi Futuro Museum in January. Alas, they’ve cancelled the show, deeming it inappropriate because won’t somebody please think of the children?!!! Read more »
Only the red brick facade of the Cheslea Hotel is protected by an official landmark status. Inside? Chaos reigns. In the past few days, the new owners of the mythical Chelsea Hotel have gutted the East Wing where William S. Burroughs once lived, leaving it in piles of debris and shattered corpses of former walls. Read more »
Morbid pervs rejoice! If NYC’s Museum of Sex wasn’t deathly enough for you, it will be on Oct 5 with the arrival of a merrily fucking bunch of life-size skeletons by French sculptor Jean-Marc Laroche. Crafted from bone-like varnished resin and affixed with steel joints, the Lovers from the Hereafter series features couples busting imaginary genitalia at each other’s hollow pelvic crevices until their jaws hinge-flap sideways, like ahhh, that’s good skeleton lovin.’
“Death is as forbidden a topic in modern society as sex was in Victorian England,” says US re-pat Laurie Lipton. After her mother’s anti-climatic cremation, she was looking for a little ceremony to death and found it in the culture kitsch of Día de los Muertos. Read more »
“One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a static,” or so goes the quote attributed to Soviet Union’s most mustache-endowed tyrant. Stalin was referring to starvation, but 100 Years of World Cuisine deals with war and conflict. These gory mason jars and pitchers of bloodshed help visualize the scale of 38,000,000 deaths, 1915 to present. Read more »
25-year-old performance artist John Jairo Villamil died in ICU in Bogotá this week after a performance gone horribly wrong. As he convulsed on the floor with his head inside a garbage bag and his feet in a bucket of water, his audience thought it was all part of the act. Read more »
The year 2009 is quickly coming to a close, and with that comes a barrage of retrospectives of famous people who’ve died. Here’s one you can wear: the Faces of Death 2009 t-shirt. Read more »
Because most of the city’s residents and local government have no money and are unable to afford the $695 cost of individual cremation, frozen corpses, 67 of them, are piling up inside the Wayne County morgue. Even the dead in the dying city of Detroit can’t seem to catch a break. |CNN|
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