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We stopped cold when we read a press release about the "BODIES" exhibition coming to New York, because do we really want to see human bodies, skin peeled away with musculature and organs for us to see? BODIES has, according to the release, "22 whole-body specimens and 260 additional organ and partial-body specimens." The thing is, a similar (if not the same - we're trying to figure that out) exhibition was in San Francisco and there were questions about whether or not the bodies were obtained legally (they were from China), plus reports of the bodies seeping! Ewww - we're sure we can find an old encyclopedia with the clear acetate pages with the layers of skin, muscles, organs and bones in order to avoid getting "preserved" body goo on us.
The exhibit will be at the Fulton Market Building at South Street Seaport this November. Stay turned. And in the bodies in the news department, the son of a man whose bones were sold illegally is suing the funeral home.
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It's actually a phenomenal exhibit and not as disturbing as it may sound. I saw it it London a few years ago and definetly plan to check it out again this round.
sounds cool to me. is it BYO-Sriracha?
me and my kids saw this in chicago a couple months ago and found it pretty ho-hum. not gross enough to shock... not intrinsically interesting enough to enlighten. i mean, "vein-man" was kind of cool... and the fetuses--from like three weeks to eight months--were fascinating (though in chi-town they had them in a separate curtained-off area and piped in like "babies-gone-to-heaven" muzak and it felt anti-abortion-ist. but after you've seen one guy with his skin stripped off, do you really need to see 21 more? for me and my daughters, the answer was... no, not really.
Was there some sort of breakthrough in dead-body-display technology? Between this, the aforementioned SF exhibit, and now I see on Deadspin that there's something similar (cooler, by the look of it) going on in Philly, I'm a bit scared there might be foul play afoot.
Think about it... what's one of the biggest problem for zombies when they become undead? Crawling up out of their graves. That takes a lot of time and effort, and you're usually way out of the city, so you've got to make another long trek just to get to the big brain concentrations.
So why not get a bunch of museums to set up bodies in major cities all across the globe? Then, when the Zombie Revolution happens, you've got advanced troops already up, out of the ground, and right in the heart of the metro areas.
Diabolical.
dan, that's exactly what i was thinking... i am not going to see this show. i live right by greenwood cemetary, and am stockpiling my er, underbed storage (damn apartment dwelling!) with loads of tinned food.
this blogger has it right:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/4/18/153047/155
This exhibition is not Gunther Von Hagen's more well-known and better-quality exhibit, Bodyworlds. This is something different, I think - a copycat show. Gunther Von Hagen wrote this statement about the copycat exhibit in Beijing, although I also just found this article about how some of the bodies from his own exhibition may have been executed prisoners from China.
Either way, though, I saw this exhibit when I went home to Cleveland for a long weekend this past summer, and it was awesome. Fascinating stuff. I hope Von Hagen's original comes to NYC so I can see it again.
The Bodyworlds exhibit actually just opened a couple weeks ago in Philadelphia. I'm really excited because it's next to the Mutter Museum, another oddball (medical curiosity/surgical history)-type museum. Finally, a reason to weekend in Philly!
I saw the BodyWorlds exhibit in Chicago. It was a)awesome and b)packed with people.
Btw, it says in the Disclaimer on the BODIES site that this show is not affiliated with Gunther Von Hagen.
Can you give me any more information on this exhibit? Such as times and costs? Thank you. URL: http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2005/10/18/human_bodies_on_display.php
I can fill some of you in on information behind the exhibit. I've seen Premier Exhibition's Bodies show in Tampa. It is extraordinary. I have since done a great amount of research because I ended up investing in the company I was so impressed. Anyway, Gunther Von Hagens does deserve respect for being an originator of the plastination process and people I know who have seen both companies shows say they are both of very high quality with some variations in presentation of course.
I'm now biased, but I can say quite fairly that Premier's bodies shows will be as good and in some cases better than Hagen's. But that is splitting hairs. One thing I do know is Premier now has an exclusive with the world's leading expert at Dalian University in China to produce the body sets for their shows and Gunther does not so the long term edge goes to Premier strictly on a business level since they will have expanded to a half dozen simultaneously running Bodies shows worldwide by this Summer.
Many will not yet realize that Premier Exhibitions (PXHB.OB, my plug, ok) is the very same company that has excavated the Titanic and exhibited the recovered ship artifacts worldwide. That is their first franchise and now Bodies is their second and it is an amazing success story. I'm a serious investor so this is buy and hold territory for so you don't have to worry about me pumping anything. But I now know so much about this company I thought I could fill in the gaps for some. Enjoy the show! If anyone has any questions, you may email me.
P.S. show tix are at bodiestickets.com
Are you sure 81635 of this?!?