Zombies resemble humans without retaining anything about our distinct personalities or relationships also have a visceral ...

On view now through January of next year, “Death Is Not the End” looks at depictions of the afterlife across the art of both Tibetan Buddhism (the museum’s thematic focus) and Christianity.

and Christianity. The works include some secular art, like the European painting “A Woman Divided Into Two, Representing Life and Death” (1790-1820), in which half the image is vibrant and ...

So how—and why—is this form of art so prominent in the historic Christian church? If we walk with the dead and gaze carefully at their bones, the art of death helps interpret itself. In the Capuchin ...

Vanitas: Meditations on Life and Death in Contemporary Art, by John B ... of the most important con temporary artists, including Christian Boltanski, Robert Gober, the late Felix Gonzalez-Torres ...

The question of a good death, of dying with dignity, however, has a far longer history. Philosophers, poets, divines and those about to die have long pondered and refined ars moriendi: “the art of ...