Editor’s Note: This article was produced in collaboration with the Arts & Culture MA concentration at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Cockroaches scuttled around a cubed vivarium.

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 ...

THE art of biography, we say — but at once go on to ask, Is biography an art? The question is foolish perhaps, and ungenerous certainly, considering the keen pleasure that biographers have given us.

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