Anatomy of soul the modern Nevsky prospect began to unravel, the artistic director of the Alexandrinsky Theatre in Petersburg, Valeriy Fokin-Director Dmitry Volkostrelov, Dmitry Egorov, Alexei Zabegin, Dmitriy Yushkov and theatre artist Simon Shepherd. Correspondent reports BakuToday, about the beginning of work on the draft Fokin told today, 30 August, and at a press conference dedicated to the start of season 257 Alexandrinsky theatre.

Nevsky-what a street became, this advertising, boutiques, folks. How far this Nevsky left healthily? -ponders Fokin. -But this is hoholivske space left. Lies and deception, encountered by the heroes, there are not changed. And in our project Gogols characters would be presented together with the moderns.

Fuller noted that this work on Nevsky, show our positions on the new programme. The concern is that the theater will celebrate a decade of 7 October new life programme and performance traditions Auditor, which, in fact, started a new interpretation of the classical repertoire.

Valeriy Fokin said that in General, the programme completed its task, we will gather scientific conference, a round table, to analyze the work and talk about how to interact with the classics. Life requires a different approach, said the Director. -Theatre must be deployed to what is happening in society, scan now on the theatrical stage actually much needed analysis, but it is quite another.

Nevsky Prospekt, timed to coincide with the opening of the new artistic programme of Alexandrinsky Theatre Creative space, scheduled for April, 2013. As was stressed at the theatre, in the play will be a strategy document, the so-called verbatim, several novels will present viewers with a collective portrait of todays Nevsky.

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“A lovely skeleton, but sadly lacking a skull,” laments one of the tags afforded to the remains of a Capuchin monkey in this show of the unseen at the ever-exotic Grant Museum. “Rarely do ‘incomplete’ specimens make the grade for display.”

When I am in London, I will most certainly be checking out the wonderful sounding exhibition "It Came from the Stores," on view at the incomparable Grant Museum  until August 31st.

You can find out more here.

Image caption: An elephant shrew is among the specimens on show at the Grant Museum of Zoology

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I don't know of a single performer with a more apt surname than Loretta Devine. From Dreamgirls to Waiting to Exhale to her recent Emmy-nominated turn on Grey's Anatomy, every role this multi-hyphenate takes on is instantly imbued with elegance and excellence.

TheInsider.com caught up with the divine Miss. Devine to talk about her Grey's arc (as Adele Webber the Alzheimer's afflicted wife of Seattle Grace's Chief of Staff), that proposed Exhale sequel and what fans can expect from a second season of The Client List!

TheInsider.com: Adele first appeared during the second season of Grey's -- at that time, did you have any idea of how important she'd be to the show? Loretta Devine: No, absolutely not. It's been almost eight years now and you never know when they're going to call you in it's always about availability. The last few seasons, I had a block of time and was excited about that. But when I found out she'd be dealing with Alzheimer's, I thought they were going to kill her off [laughs]. It's always so scary, because Richard was in love with Ellis, who also had Alzheimer's and they just killed her off! I mean, after a year of working ... dead. Good lord! [laughs]

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Insider.com: Alzheimer's can sometimes come across as very "act-y" -- how did you prepare and avoid those pitfalls? Loretta: A lot of it is in the writing Shonda Rhimes and her team have so much to do with the look of the character. My father passed and he had a touch of dementia, and I have some friends who are dealing with that with their parents too. I played Adele with a baseline of feeling she was fine for the first few episodes. But what was so great about this past season is she had to acknowledge she was sick, let go of her home, let go of her husband and move into this [assisted living facility]. It was so sad. Now she's sleeping with strangers and [Richard] is dating Debbie Allen [who plays Dr. Catherine Avery] -- it's funny, I was watching TV and finding some of this out with the rest of America and screaming at my television!

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Insider.com: Do you know anything about what the future holds for Adele? Loretta: I don't know if I'm going to be back, or how theyre going to resolve the issue maybe they'll find a cure. I saw Jim [Pickens Jr., who plays Richard Webber] at the premiere of Sparkle and he didn't know either. So we'll see!

Insider.com: How was it seeing your friend Whitney in the film? Loretta: Oh my God, it's such a great loss. And that's what is so weird about movies you feel like the person is there but they're not. When I think of Whitney, I think of a young, vivacious girl, but in Sparkle, she plays this little old lady and I had to get used to seeing her doing that. She got a chance to sing in the film and it just breaks your heart. It's such a tremendous loss. But she was excellent in the movie. Right on point and I believed she believed what she was doing, so that was great.

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Insider.com: Any update on the Waiting to Exhale sequel we've heard so much about? Loretta: Terry McMillan is still working on the script. They want it to be a tribute to Whitney, but I don't know if they're going to include her character or try something totally different. Also, Gregory Hines' character has to be dealt with too it can't be a movie full of funerals, so I don't know what their plan is. They're trying to get it together.

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Loretta Devine: 'Anatomy' of An Emmy Nom

Debbie Allen

Debbie Allen is returning to Grey's Anatomy both in front of and behind the camera!

Allen will reprise her role as Catherine Avery, the mother of Jackson Avery (Jesse Williams), for at least one episode in the upcoming ninth season, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.

Details on Catherine's return are scarce, though we know she'll pop up in the fourth episode. The last we saw of the Avery matriarch, she had quite the fling with Richard Webber (James Pickens Jr.) during the medical board exams, much to Jackson's chagrin.

Grey's Anatomy Exclusive: Debbie Allen to direct again in Season 9

As we first reported, Allen will also step behind the camera to direct this season's third episode. The ninth season picks up two to three months after the Stranded Six Five (RIP Lexie!) were rescued after the plane crash. The second episode will jump back in time to when they were rescued, while the Allen-directed episode will jump back to the present timeline, which will find some doctors outside of Seattle Grace with new jobs.

Grey's Anatomy returns Thursday, Sept. 27 at 9/8c on ABC.

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Exclusive: Debbie Allen Returning to Grey's Anatomy as Jackson's Mother

The above work is from artist Kristina Collantes, a Philippines native who resides in California. Let me tell you—her stuff is mesmerizing. The middle piece – “Ghost of Love” – may be one of my favorite pieces we’ve featured here. I’ve enjoyed seeing all the pieces in her portfolio and in her sketches. Even the works in progress are worth a peek.

Can I tell you how I found out about her? Instagram. My favorite app of the moment. Seriously though, man, there is some great stuff on there. Kristina has posts of her sketches, which in my opinion is a brilliant extension of her site, brand, etc. Just say yes to social media.

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Anyone still looking for a dress to wear to the OBJECTIFY THIS gallery (opening on September 7th!)? Here’s a doozy. The lacework on this piece, by Premonition Designs, is pretty awesome. So delicate, and yet when you turn around the rest is so beautifully simple. I myself am a fan of black, but the dress also comes in a lovely shade of purple (the white is sadly sold out but a few other color versions are available for pre-order). I adore the neon shoes in this shot; wouldn’t a pair of black suede boots also look so chic for autumn? WANT.

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Heart Throb, 26 x 22, oil on linen

Incredibly detailed oil painting by Pittsburg based artist David Bowers. The detail in the lace alone is phenomenal.  According to David’s biography on his site, he “paints very slowly and method­i­cally day in and day out.”

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"Who's going to survive?"

That's what the new trailer for the ninth season of Grey's Anatomy asks. So, um, does that mean more death is on the way? Naturally, with the exit of Eric Dane from the series and the deafening silence from executive producer Shonda Rhimes on the fate of Arizona (Jessica Capshaw) fans have suspected that one of the two beloved doctors would meet their maker as a result of last season's plane crash.

Grey's Anatomy: Will Arizona Robbins and Mark Sloan die?

In the new trailer, someone is being pushed on a gurney through the hospital. Could it be the potentially ill-fated Mark, who had suffered chest injuries during the crash, or Arizona, who was not only last seen coughing up blood, but also had a bone sticking out of her leg? Maybe Derek (Patrick Dempsey) is being wheeled in to get his hand fixed up? Another question: Is the gurney even being pushed through the hallowed halls of Seattle Grace? Check out the trailer below:

Who do you think will survive?

Grey's Anatomy returns Thursday, Sept. 27 at 9/8c on ABC.

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Our lovely friend, Joanna Ebenstein from Morbid Anatomy is doing an amazing residency at Viktor Wynd Fine Art in London for the month of September.  Color me jealous…

“Ecstatic Raptures and Immaculate Corpses: Visions of Death Made Beautiful in Italy” is an exhibition of photographs by Joanna, which examines,

the uncanny and powerfully resonant representations of the dead, martyred, and anatomized body in Italy, monuments to humankind’s quest to eternally preserve the corporeal body and defeat death in arenas sacred and profane. The artifacts she finds in both the churches, charnel houeses and anatomical museums of Italy complicate our ideas of the proper roles of–and divisions between–science and religion, death and beauty; art and science; eros and thanatos; sacred and profane; body and soul.

Also on view will be wax figures created by the wonderful Eleanor Crook and Sigrid Sarda.

The exhibition will launch with a one-day “Congress for Curious Peoples,” a one day symposium that will explore in panels, lectures and discussion the intersections explored in the exhibition. Themes will include enchantment and enlightenment, or the sublimation of the magical into the rational world; The secret life of objects; and the incorruptible body, or beautiful death sacred and profane.

Opening Night – Thursday the 6th of  September at 7 – 10 pm at the Last Tuesday Society – 11 Mare Street – Hackney – E8 4RP

Show runs from the 6th of  September 2012 to the 6th of October 2012
Visit -http://viktorwyndfineart.co.ukfor further information

So if you’re in or around London, please check it out if you can!

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CRANANAS is an anamorphic representation of a skull and pineapple by Rémi Andron from the French art direction and graphic design studio FLOZ.  Rémi is a master with a Bic ball pen, the detail he gets is incredible.

The name “CRANANAS” is a mashup of two French words, “crâne” for skull and “ananas” for pineapple.

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Its an old party tricksucking helium from balloons so you can sing like a Wizard of Oz munchkin. When gibbons inhale this non-toxic gas, researchers can detect much more sophisticated impersonations. It turns out that gibbon vocalization techniques mirror those of highly trained soprano opera singers.

Weve shown how the gibbons distinctive song uses the same vocal mechanics as soprano singers, revealing a fundamental similarity with humans, explains Takeshi Nishimura, an associate professor with the Primate Research Institute at Japans Kyoto University.

Scientists had previously believed that human speech was possible, in part, due to suspected evolutionary changes in the larynx, tongue, and vocal tract. But Nishimuras new findings suggest that humans may not have vocal anatomy and ability as unique as previously thought.

Listen to a gibbon call:

And to a gibbon on helium:

We share voice-box physiology with gibbons, and likely other primates, but we also share the way we manipulate sound, Nishimura explains. With both humans and gibbons, the origin of the soundthe larynxis independent from the vocal tools (or training) used to tailor audible messages.

(Related: Humming Fish Reveal Ancient Origin of Vocalization.)

Nishimura and his colleagues studied a young female white-handed gibbon at the Fukuchiyama City Zoo in Kyoto, where they exposed her to helium-rich air. Helium, which shifts gibbon sounds to a resonance that is easier to assess with acoustic equipment, is common in animal vocalization research.

This graceful primate normally makes intense, pure-toneor single-frequencycalls that can travel more than a mile through dense tropical forests in their native Southeast Asia.

It was probably the need to communicate with distant neighbors in such bustling habitats that produced the unique gibbon song. Such ecological and social requirements forced gibbons, using a soprano technique, to produce their pure-tone and loud voices, Nishimura said.

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Tessa Ferrer

Grey's Anatomy may have lost a few faces this past year, but there will be plenty of newbies roaming the halls when the medical drama returns this fall.

Newcomer Tessa Ferrer has scored a recurring role on the ABC drama's upcoming ninth season, TVLine reports.

Exclusive: Veronica Mars alum Tina Majorino lands a Grey's gig

It is unknown whether Ferrer will play a character based at Seattle Grace, or if she'll be tied to one of the new hospitals to be featured on the show this season when several longtime characters start their new gigs.

Grey's marks Ferrer's TV debut, where she joins new recurring guest stars Veronica Mars vet Tina Majorino, Friday Night Lights' Gaius Charles and True Blood's Camilla Luddington. Former series regulars Chyler Leigh and Kim Raver will not returning come fall, and Eric Dane is set to wrap his arc early in Season 9.

The new season of Grey's Anatomy premieres on Thursday, Sept. 27 at 9/8c on ABC.

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Grey’s Anatomy Admits Newcomer Tessa Ferrer for Recurring Role

I would like to cordially invite all Morbid Anatomy readers to join us in bidding farewell to the sadly ephemeral Great Coney Island Spectacularium and Cosmorama of the great Dreamland Fire. The exhibition--more on which here--will end after Labor Day weekend, so this is one of your last chances to see it. So please, come raise a glass with us, surrounded by the unfortunate taxidermy once on view at one of the oldest dime museums in the Americas, the Niagara Falls Museum. Join us for a beer in the soon to be dismantled and utterly transporting Cosmorama of the great Dreamland Fire! Help us kiss the lovely toy theater proscenium farewell!

The party will take place next Saturday, August 25th at The Coney Island Museum; There will be free beer and wine, including a special Dreamland Fire Brew, hand-crafted by our friends at the Coney Island Brewery and wine by Red Hook Winery. Artists will be in attendance, as will special guest performers. AND rogue musician Nick Yulman will perform original scores using mechanical instruments for two 1926 films, Now You Tell One and A Wild Roomer by silent comedian and stop-motion animation innovator Charlie Bowers.

The event begins at 8:00 PM; the film will begin at 8:30pm. $20 in advance or at the door. Advance Tickets here. Hope very much to see you there!

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Incredibly detailed mixed media collages by Casey Cripe, who labels himself as a designer, builder, collector, explorer, observer, and a human.  Casey works both in digital and analog mixed media, layering scientific and anatomical images to create what have been labeled as ‘encyclopedic information visualizations.’

View more of Casey’s work at caseycripe.com and via Flickr.

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Racional, 2004 Plaster, plexiglas 80 x 55 x 55 cms

Racional, 2006 Marble, glass, wood and metal 196 x 66 x 66 cms

Autorretrato, 2008 Concrete and Cast bronze 175 x 50 x 50 cms

Open Mind, 2008 Maquette/PVC, bronze, metal and glass 92 x 126 x 126 cms  Model for public art project where humans represent the neuronal processes in the human brain

Demagogia/Demagogy, 2011 bronze, washbowl accessories 56 x 60 x 39 cms

I stumbled upon the top male torso sculpture with brain genitalia , fittingly titled Racional (Rational), on Facebook and just had to find out who created this masterpiece.  Our lovely fans on Facebook told us it was created by the Cuban sculptor, Yoan Capote.

Yoan plays with the human body, rearranging it, taking it apart, and reinventing it for other human needs.  He also does this with other objects, studying the human-object interaction and giving them abstract personalities.  View all of Yoan Capote’s work at yoan-capote.com!

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The new morbid curiosity... may be a pendulum swing back toward the sublime and the philosophical—a new secular foray into the morbid territory that religion previously charted. One way to avoid deeper engagement with death is to paint it entirely from the crude palette of emotions like disgust and fear. We've already got plenty of that kind of "morbid" in popular culture. But awe and wonder need to be restored to our experience of death, and we're not sure how to do it in a post-religious culture.

--"A Healthy Mania for the Macabre," Stephen T. Asma, The Chronicle for Higher Education

The above is excerpted from a characteristically thoughtful and erudite piece by Stephen Asma, one of my all-time favorite scholars and author of the fantastic Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads. The piece--entitled "A Healthy Mania for the Macabre"--explores the current uptick of interest in all things macabre, and situates it within the history ofspectacular morbid display from memento mori to Frederik Ruysch to Gunther von Hagens; It also features interesting quotations from interviews with morbid art collector Richard Harris, charnel house obsessive and Empire of Death author Paul Koudounaris, and yours truly.

You can read the entire article by clicking here. I very highly recommend it!

Image: Clemente Susini (probably): Slashed Beauty, wax, human hair, pearls, rosewood and Venetian glass case, ca 1790, La Specola, Museo di Storia Naturale, Florence, Italy; From the Anatomical Theatre exhibition

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In an interesting 15th century precursor to spectacular displays of human bodies such as Gunther von Hagen's Body Worlds:

Ferdinand I [of Naples (1423 – 1494)], Alfonso II's long-reigning father, had filled an exhibition hall of Castel Nuovo with the mummified remains of his enemies. Paolo Giovio, the sixteenth-century bishop, doctor, and biographer, writes in Historiarum sue temporis: "They say that these dried cadavers were displayed, pickled with herbs, a frightful sight, in the dress they wore when alive and with the same ornaments, so that by this terrible example of tyranny, those who did not wish to be similarly served might be properly afraid."

Just one of the fascinating revelations in the wonderful book Naples Declared: A Walk Around the Bay, by Benjamin Taylor. Another writer--Jacob Burckhardt, in his The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy of 1878 --described it thusly:

Besides hunting, which he practiced regardless of all rights of property, his pleasures were of two kinds: he liked to have his opponents near him, either alive in well-guarded prisons, or dead and embalmed, dressed in the costume which they wore in their lifetime. Fearing no one, he would take great pleasure in conducting his guests on a tour of his prized “museum of mummies.”

And wow; looks like this made an appearance on The Borgias as well; I guess I had better consider giving that show another chance.

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Wax model of a decomposing body in a walnut coffin, Italy, 1774-1800

The body in this wooden coffin is in a severe state of decomposition. It may have had two purposes: as ‘memento mori’, a reminder of death, or as a teaching aid. The figure is surrounded by three frogs. Frogs are symbols of rebirth and regeneration because they change so much in their lifetimes. Wax modelling was used in Europe to create religious effigies. From the 1600s, they were also used to teach anatomy. The creation of wax anatomical models, centred in Italy, was based on observing real corpses. The museum known as La Specola, or ‘the observatory’, in Florence was famous for its wax collection.

Found in the always delightful Macabre and Beautifully Grotesque Facebook Group.

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NEGAUNEE -- The Tuesday lecture series at the Iron Industry Museum in Negaunee continues with a look at Anatomy '59. It's a film made by local journalist John Pepin that takes a behind the scenes look at the movie Anatomy of a Murder. Pepin made the film to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the film. It includes a look at the actual events that led to the book and movie.

"It's a big part of U.P. history because more than 50 years later its still remains a very popular topic with people and a lot of people don't know about the history of the area and how there was a true crime and this actually fits the three together," said Filmmaker John Pepin.

The Tuesday lecture series wraps up at the Iron Industry Museum next Tuesday with a look at the film Iron Spirits: Life on the Michigan Iron Range.

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