Check out this beautiful bracelet by jewelry designer Delfina Delettrez. Delettrez is from Rome, the daughter of French jewelry designer Bernard Delettrez. She is inspired by gothic imagery, in case that wasn’t clear.

Her site seems to be down at the moment, but you can find more of her work online.

[via The Daily What]

Source:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/streetanatomy/OQuC

This was sent to me by my dear friend and fellow medical illustration graduate, Juna Kurihara.  Juna is based in Japan which is where this insane music video originated.

There are no words to explain.  There is anatomy sprinkled throughout though!  And I can’t guarantee that you won’t be left humming PON PON PON PON PON WAY WAY WAY PON PON WAY PON…

Source:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/streetanatomy/OQuC

Calgary based mixed media artist, Candace Couse, works with paint, installation, video, and most interestingly, fiber.  A somewhat recent graduate with a MFA from University of Calgary, Candace creates incredibly detailed knitted anatomical structures.  The images above are from a 2010 show, called Landlocked at the Nickle Arts Museum in Calgary, AB.

Candace says of her work,

My own research—in mixed media—is a discourse with geography, mapping, space/place theory, the body and identity. The conceptual considerations examine the basic human need to acquire territory as a prerequisite to identity, how a loss of territory leads to a breakdown of self inundated with anxiety and loss of security. Most recently, I have completed a short film with The National Film Board of Canada titled, Sick/Malade. The film is a fanciful, endoscopic journey through the knitted body that is violently disrupted by the discovery of a malignant malady. Sick/Malade is currently being marketed for a two year film festival circuit.

View more of Candace’s work on her site, candacecouse.com and keep updated on the progress of her film at the The National Film Board of Canada.

I hope we can view the film soon!

Source:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/streetanatomy/OQuC

Tattoo by Terri at the Army Navy Tattoo in Newport News, VA.

Every once in a while, as an artist, your work can make an unexpected positive impression on a viewer, so much so that they desire your work to become a permanent part of their body.  I had that experience recently, when a reader of Street Anatomy asked me a while back to use an anatomical heart illustration I did in grad school, for a tattoo on his chest.

His name is Anthony and he is a biology undergrad who is applying to medical school.  Anthony actually got the tattoo the same day as his MCAT!  He hopes to someday specialize in interventional radiology, cardiology, or neurology.

I wish him the best of luck and am honored to have a piece of my art as a permanent part of his body!

Source:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/streetanatomy/OQuC

Oh man, this illustration has bikes and anatomy!? I’m already in love. This beautiful sketchbook image was done by the extremely awesome Dadu Shin. We’re talking amazing illustration skills, no really, go check out his portfolio now, you won’t be sorry! The serenity and simplicity is good for what ails you. What a breath of fresh air. Click the image to get a closer look.

Source:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/streetanatomy/OQuC

For those of you interested in hearing about my month in Seoul, South Korea as part of the Apex Art Outbound Residency program--and seeing some photos as well--you will have a chance next Wednesday, September 28th at the Apex Art Resident Conversation. The event is free is open to the public. Full details follow; Hope to see you there!

Apex Art Resident Conversation
Date: Wednesday, September 28
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Apex Art, 291 Church Street New York, NY 10013
Joanna Ebenstein, Outbound Resident to Seoul, South Korea, in conversation with past apexart Outbound Residents, including Valerie Crosswhite who participated in the Seoul exchange in 2010.

You can find out more here. Hope to see you there!

Source:
http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

As mentioned in this previous post, The Midnight Archive is a new web-based documentary series "centered around the esoteric and always exotic personalities that spring from Observatory," the Brooklyn-based event/gallery space I founded a few years ago. The series is created and directed by film-maker Ronni Thomas, who has plans to upload approximately one new episode per week to the new Midnight Archive website.

Episode two of The Midnight Archive--entitled Occult New York Part 1, and featuring the ever fascinating and many-time Observatory presenter Mitch Horowitz--has just been uploaded is now available for viewing! You can view it above or on The Midnight Archive website.

For more on the series, to see former episodes, or to sign up for the mailing list so as to be alerted to future uploads, visit The Midnight Archive website by clicking here. You can also "like" it on Facebook--and thus be alerted--by clicking here.

Source:
http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

PARIS, FRANCE – Auction sale of the Fabienne & François Marchal Collection of Fairground Art at Drouot Montaigne on September 28-29, 2011. Held by Cornette de Saint-Cyr with nearly 900 lots including a portable Alfred Chanvin & anon. carousel with wooden horses. Selected auction pieces will be shown at Drouot Montaigne from Sept. 7-18. The entire collection will be displayed at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre from Sept. 23-26.

The Fairground was a major vector of communication in the 19th century, popularizing scientific and medical inventions, as epitomized here by wax anatomical figures from the Palace Museum. The Fabienne & François Marchal Collection is the fruit of many years devoted to the safeguard of a specific aspect of our artistic and cultural heritage.

Among the historic and/or rare items will be some 80 wooden horses and 160 other carousel animals, dating from 1850-1960, including a Van Guyse Noah’s Ark; Spooner centaurs; and rare animals by Mathieu & Bayol. Various target games, wheels of fortune and a music hall shy or bouffes-balles will be among the historic fairground games. There will also be numerous decorative items (monumental figures, caryatides, stall fronts, merry-go-round elements), including large triumphant figures by Alexandre Devos, and salon carousel decorative elements by Anton Benner.

All images from the Cornette de Saint Cyr auction house website; text from The Carousel News and Trader. You can find out more--and bid on these lots and many, many more!--by clicking here.

Source:
http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

Caspar Bauhin Theaturm Anatomicum 1605
Description: [xvi], 1314 pp. Engraved title page with engraved portrait on verso, engraved armorial device on verso of following leaf; 129 engraved plates included in pagination. (8vo) 7½x4¾, contemporary full vellum, yapp edges, lacking closure ties. First Edition.Page 175, intended for Plate 20 of Book 1 curiously left unprinted, perhaps a prudish expurgation of a depiction of the male reproductive system. Bauhin (1560-1624) was born at Basel and studied medicine at Padua, Montpellier, and Tubingen (under the botanist Leonhard Fuchs). On his return to Basel in 1580, he was admitted to the degree of doctor, and gave private lectures in botany and anatomy. In 1582 he was appointed to the Greek professorship in that university, and in 1588 to the chair of anatomy and botany. He was later made city physician, professor of the practice of medicine, rector of the university, and dean of his faculty. His anatomical publications drew criticism from the followers of Galen, as did his work on human anatomical nomenclature, particularly of the muscles, but his system was adopted by subsequent anatomists. This work has fine dissection plates in greater number than his earlier books. GM-379
Place Published:
Date Published: Frankfurt

Click on images to see larger versions. Text and most images from Live Auctioneers; other image from Elettrogenica.

Source:
http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

19th century-inspired immersive amusements at Coney Island! Kraftwerk multi-media presentation! Erotic Death in Victorian Art and Fashion! Hope to see you at one or more of these great upcoming Observatory events.

The Making of a 19th Century Spectacle: Artist Talk at The Coney Island Museum
Date: Thursday, September 22
Time: 7:30 PM
Admission: $5
Presented by Morbid Anatomy and The Coney Island Museum
***Location: Off-site at The Coney Island Museum (1208 Surf Avenue, Brooklyn)

On an average day in Coney Island around 1900, a visitor might be able to experience: A midget village modeled on 16th century Nuremberg and featuring its own parliament, hotel, stables with midget ponies, vaudeville house, and midget fire department rushing off to put out imaginary fires; A recreation of the destruction of Pompeii by volcano, San Francisco by earthquake, Galveston by flood, and/or Titanic by iceberg; A recreation village of the head-hunting Bontac Tribe of the Philippines with real tribes-people on display; An immersive spectacular which staged tenement fires every half hour and featured a cast of 2,000; A Boer War reenactment featuring real Boer War veterans; A trip to the moon, under the sea, or to heaven and hell by way of being buried alive in a glass coffin; and, as they say, much, much more.

In the exhibition The Great Coney Island Spectacularium, Observatory's Joanna Ebenstein and artist Aaron Beebe seek--via installation, artifacts, and newly commissioned artworks--to explore, celebrate, and evoke turn of the 20th Century Coney Island as the pinnacle of pre-cinematic immersive and spectacular amusement. The centerpiece of the exhibition is The Cosmorama of the Great Dreamland Fire, an immersive 360 degree spectacle based on the great panoramas and cosmoramas that populated Coney Island in the 19th century. It tells the story--in an immersive blend of image, sound, and light--of the most spectacular disaster in Coney Island history: the complete and dramatic destruction of Dreamland, one of the three great parks that made up turn of the century Coney Island, by fire 100 years ago in 1911. Dreamland was never rebuilt, but had it been, Ebenstein and Beebe are certain it would have given pride of place to a disaster spectacle that allowed visitors to experience the great fire that had once destroyed it. The Cosmorama of the Great Dreamland Fire is their attempt to create this attraction that should have been, and to allow contemporary audiences to experience a 19th century-style immersive spectacle of the sort celebrated in the exhibition.

This Thursday September 22, the crew behind the conception and construction--which include Observatory's Joanna Ebenstein and Wythe Marschall as well as sound engineers, scenic painters, lighting designers, and artisans from the Metropolitan Opera and other institutions--will be on hand at The Coney Island Museum to discuss the making of the piece, answer your questions, and lead guided tours of the exhibition.

World of Kraftwerk: A Journey In Music
Multimedia presentation with musician and writer Stephen Vesecky
Date: Friday, September 23
Time: 8:00 PM
Admission: $5
Presented by Morbid Anatomy

The Autobahn; The Man Machine; The Model. Rising from the ruins of post-war Germany, Kraftwerk created a new artform of sound and light, drawing not on the dominant American culture, but instead looking back to the utopian futurism of Fritz Lang and the Bauhaus architects. Defiant of the rock 'n' roll leviathan, they fashioned their own electronic instruments, with which they invented a new language for pop music. In so doing, they created a blueprint for the musical landscape that we see around us today; hip hop, synth pop, global dj culture, modern dance music--all were inspired by Kraftwerk's obsessive electronic poetry.

Tonight, join musician and writer Stephen Vesecky for a multimedia presentation celebrating and elucidating the unlikely but true story of this incredible band. Dr Maz of Mondo and DeLuxe will spin Kraftwerk-inspired records for the after-party.

Stephen Vesecky has played and toured with many new wave/indie bands including Poundsign, Mahogany, the Aisler's Set, and Still Flyin'. He now writes music for his current project, Strega, DJs at Lolita Bar in Manhattan and Bar Reis in Brooklyn, and creates music for soundtracks and promotional videos.

Erotic Death in Victorian Art and Fashion
An Illustrated Lecture with Professor Deborah Lutz
Date: Friday, September 30th
Time: 8:00 PM
Admission: $5
Presented by Morbid Anatomy

The Victorians had a different relationship to the dead body and dying than we do today. Painters in the late-Romantic style created beautiful men and women ravaged by death; they depicted dying as a moment of climax and aesthetic perfection. Locks of hair were snipped from the corpse and woven into jewelry: a form of mourning that revered the body and its parts, even after death. Body-part stories told of the deep desire to possess the pieces of the famous dead. We will look at some of these paintings and objects, with a view toward recuperating this willingness to dwell with loss itself, to linger over the evidence of death’s presence woven into the texture of life.

Deborah Lutz is an Associate Professor at Long Island University, C.W. Post. Her first book—The Dangerous Lover: Gothic Villains, Byronism, and the Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative—traces a literary history of the erotic outcast. Her second book—Pleasure Bound: Victorian Sex Rebels and the New Eroticism—explores mid-Victorian sexual rebellion. She is currently working on a book about the materialism of Victorian death culture and “secular relics”: little things treasured because they belonged to the dead.

Image: Victorian hair plume palette work brooch with seed pearls and curled wire work, circa 1870. Found on the Morning Glory Antiques website.

To be alerted to future events, "like" Morbid Anatomy on Facebook by clicking here or sign up for the Obesrvatory mailer by clicking here. More on all events here. Touy can find out more about these events by clicking here.

Source:
http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss