It’s been a few weeks since I’ve done a disturbing art post, in no small part because I wanted to find something worthy of the word disturbing. Although most people seemed as troubled as myself by ...

Exploded skulls from the Victorian era have been put on display at the University Museum of Zoology Rare exploded Victorian skulls have been put on display at a museum. The skulls are on display at ...

How did this happen? And why? I say “exploded,” but it’s obvious that this skull has not been blown to smithereens. Rather, it has been carefully disarticulated and spread asunder, its constituent ...

Alexander James's underwater photographs could pass for a Vanitas painting. Flowers explode, skulls stand up on long tentacles protruding from where the jaw should be, and cutesy ceramic figurines ...