Dance of Death Talk

On Monday, April 20, I’ll be giving an online talk for Morbid Anatomy on the art of the dance of death. Learn about how in times of uncertainty and calamity, the danse macabre has resurrected again and again. From Hans Holbein’s playful mocking of the elite to Alfred Rethel’s 19th-century meditations on cholera, to haunting etchings of World War II by Percy Smith, this mortal dance has persisted in our visual culture. And still now, its bony hand beckons us to join in its endless waltz as artists find new ways to interpret it in the 21st century. Register here!

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