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Multiple Enchondroma in a Female ©2002 Mutter Museum Archives, albumen print.

"Mutter Museum Photographs: Shock is the instinctive response to these contemporary and vintage photographs from the Mutter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, but the images of sliced-up faces, gunshot wounds, and fetal skeletons have an almost classical quality. 'Cephalothoracopagus,' a 1990 Scott Lindgren closeup of the skeleton of conjoined twins fused at the head, drains the monstrousness from the bones. Olivia Parker's 'Heart' shows its disembodied subject floating in a glass specimen jar, rendered translucent, its blood vessels injected with vermillion or cinnabar; the image is gorgeous and replusive at once." Through Nov. 16 (Ricco/Maresca, 529 W. 20th St., 627-4819.)

The New Yorker, 11/4/02