Life Is a Cabaret, And Death Is Conceptual Art :

In a show that pushes the boundaries of the controversial, a German doctor is displaying real cadavers. Skinned and dissected, the preserved bodies, which were donated by fully informed volunteers, are recomposed in abstract and representational forms for aesthetic effect…

But von Hagens’s “creations,” which are drawing huge crowds to a converted train station in East Berlin, are stirring an intense debate about the limits of expression and the dignity of the dead. And many find something deeply disturbing in this baroque intersection of science, art and entertainment, which invariably resonates with questions about a particular German responsibility to respect the dead. Washington Post