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Bodies: The Exhibition is an exhibition showcasing human bodies that have been preserved through a process called plastination and dissected to display bodily systems. [1] It opened in Tampa, Florida on August 20, 2005. [2] It is similar to, though not affiliated with, the exhibition Body Worlds (which opened in 1995). The exhibit displays ...
In June 2008, New York State Senate passed legislation regulating body exhibits. A bill that was sponsored by Senator Jim Alesi requires anyone showing an exhibit that uses real human bodies in New York museums to produce a permit detailing their origin. [37] BODY WORLDS was hosted at Discovery Times Square in New York City.
The exhibition was also met with controversy from members of the Catholic Church who viewed the exhibition to be blasphemous and exploitative of Catholicism. On June 9, 2018, nearly 500 Catholics gathered for a rally in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Fifth Avenue in New York City to oppose and make reparations for the exhibition. [38]
Eric Wilson takes us on a tour through the Met Museum's latest Costume Institute Exhibition: “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination," just before the start of the 2018 Met Gala.
Bodies: The Exhibition became the primary money maker for the firm with 19 separate human anatomy exhibitions at 33 venues while the Titanic was on exhibit at 15 locations in 2009. [33] In 2009 the company reported that 19% of its revenue came from Titanic and 67% from Bodies: The Exhibition with the rest among its other exhibitions.
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Thanks to exhibition design by Emanuel Admassu and Jen Wood of the New York firm AD–WO, historical examples of African metalsmithing dating back several hundred years are arranged in ...
In 2004, Premier Exhibitions began their "Bodies Revealed" exhibition in Blackpool, England, which ran from August through October 2004. [ citation needed ] In 2005 and 2006, the company opened their "Bodies Revealed" and "Bodies...The Exhibition" in Seoul , Tampa , and New York City .