We used to love getting a good LEGO set under the Christmas tree, and Brooklyn-based David Cole created a bit of a stir a few weeks ago when he created a set for a taxidermy deer LEGO sculpture. After interviews with the NY Times, and selling 250 deer sets with over a thousand on hold, Cole has now released sets of a fox and a bear.

Savannah, Georgia based artist, Marcus Kenney, has been creating this intricate, heavily detailed "reclaimed taxidermy" pieces, where he adds sticks, paint brushes, rope, twine, plastic, paper bowls, acrylic, oil, nails, screws, rubber, beads, various papers, thread, and yarn to create something completely new.

Polly Morgan, the modern taxidermist we have featured in the magazine in the past, will be showing Burials at Workshop Venice, starting on June 3, 2011. As the Workshop notes, "Morgan has contributed to a shift in public perception that has taken ‘the art of preparing, stuffing and mounting the skins of animals with lifelike effect’ to places never dreamed of by its original Victorian practitioners."