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Thursday, November 15, 2012

Looking death in the face: The amazing exhibition of over 300 items showing mortality across the globe

Looking death in the face: The amazing exhibition of over 300 items showing mortality across the globe | Mail Online: "Try as we might, there's no escaping death. Art collector Richard Harris has decided to embrace it instead - and wants the rest of us to do the same.

A manufactured plastic skull from 1950 is displayed at the Death: A Self-portrait exhibition at the Wellcome Collection

The retired Chicago print dealer has spent years acquiring works imbued with mortality, from 18th-century anatomical drawings to Tibetan skull masks and papier-mache skeletons from Mexico."

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