Freeman's is auctioning more than 150 items from the collection of Irvin and Anita Schorsch, who founded the Museum of Mourning Art at Arlington Cemetery in Drexel Hill. (Emma Lee/WHYY) The hair of ...

In the inky darkness, an unsavory character known as a “resurrection-man” creeps about graves of the newly dead, seeking fresh bodies for physicians — and perhaps, a new suit for himself. It is early ...

Art related to death in the United States evolved from European influences in the colonial era to a distinct language of mourning, guided by widespread grieving for public figures like the country's ...

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Like an incision, a black sash fell from the roof to the ground of New York’s Guggenheim Museum on December 1, 1989. Designed by Gabellini Sheppard Associates, the piece disrupted the clean ...

I told myself a useful fiction when I wrote the first few drafts of this essay: It makes a difference how I encountered the exhibition Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America. Initially I had ...