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A growing number of artists are “rummaging through the life sciences in search of materials, ideas, cosmic verities, tragicomic homilies, personal agency, a personal agent, a way to stand out in the crowd.”
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A growing number of artists are “rummaging through the life sciences in search of materials, ideas, cosmic verities, tragicomic homilies, personal agency, a personal agent, a way to stand out in the crowd,” writes Natalie Angier. Many examples of this type of “mulchy, redolent, unmistakably organic art” are now on display at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.

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