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13 December 2012
Fear, spirituality, hope, celebration - death may come to us all, but it has many different meanings and expressions across the world.
The Wellcome Collection's 2012 winter exhibition - Death: A Self-portrait - showcases some 300 works from the collection of Richard Harris, a former antique print dealer from Chicago, exploring the iconography of death and our complex attitudes towards it. Rare prints by Rembrandt, Dürer and Goya sit alongside human remains, Mexican Day of the Dead masks, Incan skulls and a plaster-cast bone chandelier by British artist Jodie Carey.
The display opens on November 15 and runs until February 24, 2013.
Death: A Self-portrait, Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE
