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CONTROVERSIAL ART EXHIBIT ADDS NEW DEAD BODY
Sporting bodies join exhibition of the dead A pole vaulter and a dancer are among nine new dead bodies going on display in one of the world's most controversial exhibitions. The anatomical exhibition, Body Worlds, features human bodies preserved using a special technique called plastination. Despite calls for the show to be banned, it has had more than 195,000 visitors since it opened in March. Now curators have installed nine new bodies, and five of them have been arranged as if they are taking part in physical activities. The bodies, which have been bequeathed to the curator of the exhibition, Professor Gunther von Hagens, include a cyclist, basketball player and goalkeeper. They will stand alongside exhibits such as a pregnant woman with her womb exposed to reveal a seven-month-old foetus, which have been on display since the show opened. A specimen which combines the skeleton and the arterial circulation for the first time is also going on display. Prof Hagens, who invented plastination, spent a fortnight touring UK universities with one of his exhibits. Body Worlds is on display at The Atlantis Gallery on Brick Lane, east London, until September 29. July 12, 2002 
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