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From anatomical studies to landscape painting to the biomorphism of surrealism, the biological realm has historically provided a significant resource for artists. More recently, bio art has become a ...

The artist’s life is clearly ripe for cinematic adaptation or interpretation. Whether the struggling genius yearning for recognition, the rising artist masterminding her next great masterpiece, or the ...

SVA’s Bio Art Laboratory is a center where biological scientific techniques and materials are used as a medium for artmaking. The lab is equipped with microscopes for photography and video, a BioBots ...

In the early 1990s, the art historian Barbara Bloemink was rummaging through a Yale library in search of a dissertation topic when she came across “a funny letter about how impossible men are” from ...