BOOKISH: Julia Alvarez, Apocalypse and the Politics of Pot

This week in bookish: Julia Alvarez comes to town, Penn opens an exhibit on the Mayan 2012 prediction and the library hosts a dope talk about the politics of pot

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BOOKISH: Julia Alvarez, Apocalypse and the Politics of Pot

POSTED: Thursday, May 3, 2012, 4:00 PM

Filed Under: Arts Books

Tuesday, May 8

Bones, Books and Bell Jars

Imagine that you are in Philadelphia's Mutter Museum of medical oddities, standing among all the pickled tumors and human horns that have lured visitors in over the years. Now imagine that it's after hours and you're the only (living) person around. If the creepy haunted feeling ever subsides, you might remember that you actually have a camera with you, and that the museum has granted you access to create as many bone and diseased skin still lifes as your little beating heart desires. This is the good fortune that befell Dr. Andrea Baldeck, whose photographs have been compiled into a book titled Bones, Books, and Bell Jars. With the artistic eye of a photographer and the medical knowledge of a doctor, Baldeck offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse into one of the world's most bizarre collections of materia medica.

6:30 p.m., free, College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 19 S. 22^nd St., collphyphil.org/site/programsevents

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