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Monday, April 9, 2007

Saved By Science: pix of the storage areas at the Natural History Museum

Justine Cooper spent a year as artist-in-residence at New York's Museum of Natural History; one product of her stay is a show called "Saved By Science" at the Daneyal Mahmood Gallery in NYC. Saved By Science is a series of photos of the storage areas of the Museum of Natural History: ranked skulls, closets full of tiger-skins, cases of butterflies, a T-Rex skull on a shelf, jar after jar of preserved critters. The photos are lovely and haunting -- I think I like dead animals better in storage areas than in museum cases.

The photos remind me of my trip to Vienna's Naturhistorisches Museum, a creepy, hulking wedding-cake of a building whose cases are jammed with dessicated, stitched-together taxadermied animals staring out of every corner. Link (via We Make Money Not Art)

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