The Witch’s Door: Author Talk with Ryan Matthew Cohn and Regina Rossi

Name: The Witch’s Door: Author Talk with Ryan Matthew Cohn and Regina Rossi
Start: 2024-12-19T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-12-19T20:00:00-05:00
Location: The Westport Library

Schedule

Thu Dec 19 2024 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

The Westport Library | Westport, CT

Founders of Oddities Flea Market, Ryan Matthew Cohn & Regina Rossi share tales of the bizarre and macabre from their new book.
About this Event

Still mourning the end of Spooky Season? Well, don’t worry — we’ve got you covered with a little late December creepiness. The days are short, the nights are long, and we invite you to join founders of Oddities Flea Market and world-renowned collectors of the macabre, Ryan Matthew Cohn and Regina M. Rossi, for an insider’s tour of bizarre artifacts, their histories, and their new book, The Witch's Door.

An engaging mix of memoir, exposé, how-to guide, and curated journey, The Witch's Door is filled with jaw-dropping photographs and unbelievable-but-true stories of exploded skulls, haunted mirrors, and other eccentricities aplenty.

Ryan Matthew Cohn is an artist, curator, art collector, and co-founder of the Oddities Flea Market. His artwork has been exhibited at the Museum of Arts and Design, Armour-Stiner Octagon House, Copro Gallery, Last Rites Gallery, Morbid Anatomy Museum, Roq La Rue Gallery, and more. His curatorial work has appeared in Playboy, Revolver, and The New York Times, as well as in films such as Wonderstruck and The Greatest Showman. Between 2010 and 2014, Ryan was featured as one of the stars on the Discovery Channel show Oddities, and he currently appears on the web series Antiques and Their Afterlives on Atlas Obscura.

Regina Marie Rossi is the co-founder and producer of the Oddities Flea Market, a traveling high-end art market, which expanded from Brooklyn to Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Manhattan, and beyond under her leadership. In 2016, she collaborated with her husband, Ryan, to curate Brooklyn’s House of Wax: a bar, museum, and event space like no other. With a background in high-end fashion, Regina brings glamour and elegance to her exhibits and events.

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