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Bad Taste? Beer Packaged in Dead Animals
The Scottish brewery BrewDog thought it was the right time to combine taxidermy with beer, and evidently, they were right. As soon the 12 bottles stuffed into the corpses of ermines, squirrels, and a...
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12 Contemporary Taxidermy Artists Who Aren’t Damien Hirst
Damien Hirst’s riches and hype are credited to diamonds… and his formaldehyde-pickled sharks and bisected cows. For this, Morrissey says “Hirst’s head should be kept in a bag.” Using dead animals for...
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Life-Size “Taxidermy” Made with Vintage Tapestries
After her grandmother’s needlepoint pieces were discarded when she passed away, Frédérique Morrel began composing life-size “taxidermy” sculptures made with vintage tapestries. Intersecting fine art,...
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Taxidermy Comes to Life at Vienna’s Natural History Museum
Vienna’s Natural History Museum recently became the subject on display when photographer Klaus Pichler pulled back the curtain on the museum’s storage, workshops, and corridors. It took the artist...
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Peter Gronquist’s Armed and Branded Taxidermy
There is a section on Peter Gronquist’s website labeled “Sculpture/Weapons.” This is no metaphor for the power of art; arms are a central preoccupation for the Portland-based artist, who has made sleek...
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Photo Gallery: Bizarre Gifts from the Morbid Anatomy Holiday Fair
It’s the perennial, cliched holiday dilemma: What do you get the person who has everything? Well, how about a skunk skull? Or a stuffed baby duckling? Perhaps a glinting beetle trapped in amber? For...
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Charming Portraits of People with Their Favorite Things
Photographer Michael Warren, who Design You Trust introduced us to, photographed his subjects with their favorite things. Somebodies depicts the strange and lovely things we cling to, because of their...
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Stuffed Animals as High Art: Alexis Turner’s ‘Taxidermy’
The art of stuffing and mounting dead animals for display or study dates back to Egyptian times, but in the last few years, from garage sales in the suburbs to vintage shops and flea markets in Los...
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Nude Self-Portraits in Natural History Museums
Swiss photographer Vicky Althaus has restaged the taxidermy tableaux in a natural history museum by posing within each scene, nude. The former thriving beasts have been stuffed for our “natural”...
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The Creepy Victorian-Era Stuffed Rabbits and Squirrels of ‘Walter Potter’s...
Great British eccentrics come in all different stripes and colors, and no era produced more interesting ones than during the reign of Queen Victoria. From 1837 to 1901, England produced some of its...
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