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HUGO SIMBERG

Features a selection of Simberg's work

Article in New York Times Style Magazine. "What Can We Learn From the Art of Pandemics Past?" Subtitled "From the playground game ring-around-the-rosy to the short stories of Edgar Allan Poe, the scars of illnesses throughout history are still visible today."

With our eyes open, we can change the world

Short article introducing a new course for medical students at The University of Virginia "How Art Shaped Our Understanding of Plagues" 

Short Vanity Fair article "The Art of Making Art About a Plague." Explores the way coronavirus may inspire creative efforts.

Short article from Redbrick Cultures discusses art and pandemics through the lens of three works of art:: Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron (1353); Edgar Allan Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death (1842); and Edvard Munch's Self Portrait after the Spanish Flu’ (1919)

Article from mymodernmet.com "Memento Mori: Life and Death in Western Art from Skulls to Still Life." Features an assortment of interesting art.

Atlas Obscura's "A Brief History of the "Danse Macabre"delves into the subject of skeletons in art from 1424 to Disney.