This piece is part of the amazing installation, RGB, by Carnovsky, the collaboration of Francesco Rugi & Silvia Quintanilla.

RGB is a work about the exploration of the “surface’s deepness”.

RGB designs create surfaces that mutate and interact with different chromatic stimulus.

RGB’s technique consists in the overlapping of three different images, each one in a primary color. The resulting images from this three level’s superimposition are unexpected and disorienting. The colors mix up, the lines and shapes entwine becoming oneiric and not completely clear. Through a colored filter (a light or a transparent material) it is possible to see clearly the layers in which the image is composed. The filter’s colors are red, green and blue, each one of them serves to reveal one of the three layers.

I seriously wish I could have experienced this in person.

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Opening reception for Zoe Beloff's "Four Hysterical Dramas" at The Great Coney Island Spectacularium
Date: This Friday, July 22nd
Time: 7-10 PM
Where: The Coney Island Museum, 1208 Surf Avenue
Admission: Free

This Friday, Morbid Anatomy and The Great Coney Island Spectacularium cordially invite you to an opening reception to celebrate the launch of our short-term exhibition of Zoe Beloff's installation "Four Hysterical Dramas" This exhibition will be on view at The Spectacularium from July 22nd until August 20th.

More on the exhibition following; hope to see you there!

Four Hysterical Dramas
Beloff will present four miniature theaters housing depictions of actual hysterics filmed by doctors in Belgium, Romania, and the United States. Updating a Victorian stage trick called "Pepper's Ghost", Beloff has transformed these patients into ghostly figures performing an endless loop of madness within the space of each diorama. Beloff was inspired by several remarkable developments at the end of the 19th century: the discovery of the unconscious by psychotherapists, doctors' emerging practice of filming their hysterical patients with motion picture cameras, and the public's fascination with madness which manifested itself in the emotive, hysterical behavior of actors in Parisian cabarets.

You can find out more about the event here and more about Zoe and her work here.

The second week of August each year is dedicated to recognizing the service and contributions of Community, Migrant, Homeless and Public Housing Health Centers in providing access to affordable, high quality, cost-effective health care to medically vulnerable and underserved people in the U.S. ”Celebrating America’s Health Centers: Serving Locally, Leading Nationally” is our theme for National Health Center Week 2011.

Howard Liebers of Marble Road, whose mission is to connect people who have complex illnesses with the resources they need to help them improve their lives, has put together what looks like a fantastic show.  Each artist in the show has had significant experiences with their own health or the health of their loved ones, which in turn influenced their work.

A few of the artists have been featured on Street Anatomy before such as David Foox and Teagan White.  So if you’re in New York August 7-11, make sure to stop by the show!

Find out more at the flammableheart.com!

In traditional Chinese medicine, sadness or grief affects the lungs, producing fatigue, shortness of breath, crying, or depression. Lungs regulate Qi, the vital energy life force.

As an explorer and an artist, Amylin Loglisci has definitely caught my eye.

Having considered herself an artist for as long as she can remember, Loglisci has always recognized, at least for her own sake, the importance of “art in life and life as an art.”

Currently residing in Istanbul, she has had many adventures. Hitch hiked over 50, 000 kilometers in her 24 years, once across Asia in the back of a Chinese dump truck. Had one of her original drawings stolen from her in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria where she was temporarily homeless and sleeping on the beach. To catch a glimpse of the world through her camera lens, check out the photo section on her personal website.

To purchase any of these amazing prints head to Amylin’s society 6.

So, I realize that this was posted last year and I’m only now seeing it and it’s not totally art related, but I have to say, HOLY ORGAN PRINTING BATMAN, this is totally fascinating! Of course, I’m seeing this only weeks after seeing the film Never Let Me Go (it’s a good one, heavy stuff), and I have to say, after seeing this amazing Ted Talk, it doesn’t seem like we are that far off from having some real working solutions to organ growing (printing!?) and replacement. The organ printer is by far the most bizarre and amazing thing Atala talks about, and when you say it out loud it sounds impossible and fantastical, but it’s well underway. Who knows, if I’m lucky I’ll see the working solution realized in my lifetime (just in time to need one such organ?). This is definitely something I would love to keep an eye on and read more about, hurray for science and technology!!!!

The Daily Mail's article "Get stuffed: The disturbing animals created when taxidermy goes wrong"--which profiles the activity of the Facebook group "Badly Stuffed Animals"--has been rapidly making the internet rounds. In an oddly proud moment, I found that the article showcases one of the more disturbing pieces from The Niagara Falls Museum that we have on show as part of The Great Coney Island Spectacularium. Can you guess which one it is? Hint: it is unable to stand on its own two legs...

To see this piece in person, come down to The Great Coney Island Spectacularium! You can read the article and see the full collection by clicking here.

Thanks to Eleanor Crook and Matt Haber for sending this my way.

All images from the article.

Just found out about this pretty great looking panel discussion featuring former Observatory lecturer Carl Schoonover and Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder auther Lawrence Wechsler:

What We leave Out: The Art of Science Fiction Writing
Date: Mon, Jul 18, 2011, 7 pm
Venue: 92YTribeca MAINSTAGE
Location: 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson Street
Event Code: TS12D11185

Scientific experimentation is as much about what we choose not to study as what we do—researchers must always ignore some elements of a problem to focus on others.

Similarly, writing is a process of taking out as much as putting in, of deciding what we can include and what we must leave untouched. Writers who work with the future tend to care most about a particular aspect—about changes in technology, society or the environment.

Panelists Anna North, Carl Schoonover and Lawrence Wechsler discuss the ways writers fashion a future by whittling down an infinity of possibilities until that which most interests them remains. Join them as they shed light on the processes of writing and experimentation and how the eventual results are only part of the story.

The panel takes place tomorrow night! You can purchase tickets here.

Thanks, Carl, for sending this--and the photograph--along.

Image; Credit: Thomas Deerinck and Mark Ellisman, 2008.
This image depiects non-neuronal cells in the cerebellum, an area in the back of the brain that play a role in motor coordination. These cells, called glia (yellow), support the activity of neurons, providing nutrients and oxygen. They have been illuminated using a highly, specific antibody-based staining technique, leaving everything else--including the neurons they nurture--invisible in the background (blue).

You Me And Everyone We Know, oil on canvas, 34 x 26 in, 2010

Warrior, oil on canvas, 31 x 25 in, 2010

Release, oil on canvas, 19 x 15 in, 2011

Psychosomatic, oil on canvas, 39.5 x 33.5 in, 2011

Endless Summer, oil on canvas, 41 x 29 in, 2010

Arcadia, oil on canvas, 46 x 32 in, 2011

Highly accomplished New York city based artist Jenny Morgan, breathes a surreal life into ordinary portraits through her mastery of painting, color, and design.  Jenny mixes hyper realism with design beautifully. Her portraits invite the viewer to analyze the person and question the anatomy that is missing, rubbed away, enhanced with color, or fading.   I think I’ve found a new favorite artist!

View more of Jenny’s fabulous paintings on her site, jennymorganart.com.

We have a few more slots open for our awesome all day field trip this Saturday. See following for details, and email me at morbidanatomy [at] gmail.com if you'd like to come along!

FIELD TRIP: Day of Brains in Jars, Old Libraries, and Underground Crypts in New Haven, Connecticut
A chartered bus field trip to New Haven, Connecticut with guided tours of The Cushing Brain Collection, The Institute Library, and The Center Church Crypt and an unguided visit to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Date: This Saturday, July 16th
Time: 10:00 AM- 7 PM
Admission: $60
Presented by Morbid Anatomy
*** MUST RSVP to morbidanatomy [at] gmail.com

This Saturday, July 16th join Observatory and Morbid Anatomy for a special field trip to New Haven, Connecticut. Our first stop will be the amazing Cushing Collection, with its over 500 human brains in glass jars and haunting pre- and post-operative photographs amassed by "father of modern neurosurgery" Dr. Harvey Cushing. We will be introduced to this collection-- newly open to the public--via a guided tour by Terry Dagradi, curator of the collection. Our next stop will be the historic and lovely Institute Library (founded 1826), Connecticut's oldest living independent literary institution and one of the last remaining membership libraries in North America, where director Will Baker will give us a tour followed by an opportunity for unguided exploration and lunch. Next, we will be treated to a special after-hours tour of the Center Church Crypt, an underground cemetery featuring 137 grave stones of New Haven's founders and earliest citizens going back to 1687. Our final stop will be an unguided visit to the incredible Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library before hopping on the bus for our return home.

Trip Details: The $60 event cost of this event includes round trip transportation on a special chartered bus from Observatory to New Haven and back again as well as tour costs. Please bring your lunch, which we will have an opportunity to eat at our second stop. The bus will pick up and drop off in front of the 543 Union Street (at Nevins Street) entrance to Observatory. Pick up is 10:00 AM sharp and drop off approximately 7:00 PM depending on traffic.

There is a limit for this trip, so please RSVP to morbidanatomy [at] gmail.com if interested.

Images: Of and from The Cushing Collection as featured in The New York Times.

Much has been said about the sad and sudden passing of epic collector and friend to many (including myself!) Billy Jamieson. I am not sure I have anything to add to this often eloquent outpouring of disbelief and grief, except to add note of my own sadness, and to take this moment to mark his passing.

James Taylor put it best, perhaps, on his website "Shocked and Amazed":

Hearing of Bill Jamieson’s death yesterday was about as shocking an occurrence as can be imagined in this business. Still a young man, truly, and a man whose importance to collecting and “spreading the word” had yet to be fully felt, his passing leaves a hole at least 10X larger in the business than the enormous hoard of attractions he leaves behind...

My own experience with Billy was marked by kindness, generosity of spirit, and a sharp and roving intelligence. He loaned us a variety of artifacts from The Niagara Falls Museum--a circa 1827 dime museum whose entire contents he had purchased in 1999--for use in The Coney Island Spectacularium. He also joined us at Coney Island a few weeks back, where we enjoyed the pleasure of his company on the judges stand of The Mermaid Parade followed by a memorable and inspiring lecture in the museum.

I still cannot quite believe he is really dead. He was one of the most full-of-life and inspiring men it has ever been my pleasure to meet.

Rest in peace, Billy. You are--and will continue to be--sorely missed.

Photo sourced from Colorslab.

Portland based street artist, Rx, has teamed up with Street Anatomy to give away a free anatomy sticker pack with any purchase at the Street Anatomy gallery store. Keep them for yourself or better yet, tag them around your town and spread the anatomical love.

“Spine” Corset
Untitled, spring/summer 1998
Aluminum and black leather
Photograph © Sølve Sundsbø / Art + Commerce

This is just one of the many gorgeous pieces by Alexander McQueen featured in the exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, titled Savage Beauty.  Curated by Andrew Bolton, the exhibit takes you through the periods of McQueen’s work and his inspirations in spaces decorated to accompany the fashion.

“I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists. I have to force people to look at things.”
—Alexander McQueen Harper’s Bazaar, April 2007

May 4–August 7, 2011 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

View more details about the show and gallery at the Met’s website.

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Natalie Irish is a Houston based multi-media artist who, among other things, uses her lips to “paint” portraits. She applies lipstick and kisses the canvas, slowly creating the portrait.

You can see her work, including sculptures and bags, on her site, natalieirish.com.

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Hand trauma, by Surfactant via Flickr.

Re-posting this classic x-ray from the archives of Street Anatomy for this 4th of July.

“Young male was holding a homemade explosive device. The fuse of the device was lit, and the patient was unable to throw it away before it detonated.”

Powerful image.

The common monobloc plastic chair gets reinterpreted memento mori style in this piece titled Souviens Toi Que Tu Vas Mourir (Remember that you are going to die) by Benjamin Le Du of Pool.

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Hi all! Will be giving a free and open-to-the-public artist's talk augmented by artifacts drawn from the stores at the London Natural History Museum this Thursday at 2:30. Full details follow; hope very much to see you there!

The Secret Museum: Collections as Muse with artist Joanna Ebenstein
Artist Talk with Artifacts from the Stores
Museum of Natural History, London, Attenborough Studio
Thursday July 7
2:30 PM

Ancient wood and glass cases, elaborate labels from centuries past, rows of dusty bell jars, atmospherically decayed specimens, the unintentionally surreal and sublime vistas of the Museum backstage... these are the kinds of things that intrigue and inspire New York artist Joanna Ebenstein. Today, join her for a look at some of her artwork engaging with these themes. Also on view will be a variety of rarely seen artifacts specially drawn for this talk from the Natural History Museum's extensive and astounding stores.

More here.

PANDA BEAR “Surfer’s Hymn” from m ss ng p eces on Vimeo.

This music video by m ss ng p eces for the band Panda Bear is amazing. I LOVE the old black and white film feel, nice and grainy. The hand painted skeleton costumes have great texture and whatever they did, black light or just extreme color correction, to get the bones to glow looks awesome. As stated on the Vimeo page, this video is a tribute to surfers who have been taken by the sea, which only makes the video that much more nostalgic feeling and beautiful. Major props! Be sure to watch it all the way through, I assure you it’s worth it.

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These clever advertisements were created by Y&R for Penguin audio books.

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Loving the way 23 year-old Swedish artist, Judit Fritz, uses color, texture, and splattering to bring what would be normal female figure studies to life.

Judit says of her inspirations:

Living in Sweden, life tend to be somewhat grey since the sun only shine on all of us lovers for a short few month every year. I do not support this, so I spread a plague of colours in an attempt to lighten things up. Lighten myself up…

She’s just starting out in her artistic career, and already has an intriguing style and colorful outlook on life, down.

View more of Judit’s work on her portfolio site, juditfritz.n.nu.