In December 1936, “Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism” opened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York ... between an 18th-century French School memento mori and Thomas Cole’s “The Titan ...

The newest exhibition at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts invites visitors to contemplate mortality through the eyes of young curators.

It’s impossible to comprehend the sheer numbers lost to COVID-19. Japanese painter Yuri Shimojo’s series “Memento Mori,” which meditates on losing individuals and multitudes, helps.