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The Death Lab

The Death Lab

A master’s program is creating solutions for managing mortality in the modern metropolis.

cultureCaren MartineauJuly 24, 2018DeathLab, Karla Rothstein, solutions, Sylvan Constellation, GSAAP, Columbia University, bioconversion, decomposition, burial alternatives, eco burial, architecture, design, future

Headshots

Headshots

Celebrity photographer focuses his lens on death’s face.

art, artists, cultureCaren MartineauJuly 17, 2018Rankin, faces of death, alive in the face of death, photography, on dying, portraits of death, portraits

Inflorescent Decay

Inflorescent Decay

What’s in a flower? Artist sees beauty, death, decay, and the natural cycle of life.

cultureCaren MartineauJuly 11, 2018flowers, decay, Rebecca Louise Law, artist

Ripple Effect

Ripple Effect

Drawing from life in order to open new windows of the past and the future.

art, artists, cultureCaren MartineauJune 30, 2018Denis Johnson, on dying, wisdom, last works, Daniel Day-Lewis, Ursula K. LeGuin

Going Out In Style

Going Out In Style

For fashionistas, there’s no better time than the now to start thinking #preparingtoprepare.

cultureCaren MartineauJune 26, 2018fashion, style, sendoff, party, fashionista, funeral

Life Aquatic

Life Aquatic

In the hushed depths, a museum is preserving life around the world.

art, artists, cultureCaren MartineauJune 25, 2018underwater, sculpture, art, underwater sculpture, DeCaires Taylor, Jason DeCaires Taylor, underwater sculpture park, underwater museum, museum

Dressing the Dead

Dressing the Dead

A career in fashion leads to her calling in all things end of life. But for this Ph.D., it makes brilliant sense.

cultureCaren MartineauJune 20, 2018fashion, style, Pia Interlandi, shroud, transformation, dressing the dead

A Sacred Death

A Sacred Death

Death is rarely a romantic notion, except, of course, in the hands of one of literature’s greats.

cultureCaren MartineauJune 14, 2018art, style, flowers, emile zola, zola, rebecca louise law, Rebecca Louise Law, Zola, film, albine, Albine, Death of Albine, death of albine, suffocated by flowers, suffocation, Emile Zola

Like a Butterfly

Like a Butterfly

A filmmaker learns the butterflies had a different story to tell.

film, cultureCaren MartineauJune 12, 2018film, grief, bereavement, monarch, butterfly, butterflies, Mexico, stories

Blossoming

Blossoming

A designer’s painstaking floral tribute to mom.

art, artists, cultureCaren MartineauJune 12, 2018Kristy Mitchell, Wonderland, grief, photography, legacy, flowers, beauty