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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.

Cartoonist Art Spiegelman, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus, about his parents’ survival of the Holocaust, has had an immense impact on the world of comics throughout his ...

Since 2023, Australian architect Bianca Censori has become a global sensation for her body, slaying sheer fits alongside her famous rapper husband. The enigmatic icon has barely spoken out, however.

David Hale doesn’t know whether his poem will kill the culture. It’s not that “Affliction 11” is a bad poem. It’s a beautiful one, a brief, subtle meditation on the transmission of belief, filtered ...

Sean Redmond is one of the curators of the Morbis Artis: Diseases of the Arts Exhibition Darrin Sean Verhagen works for RMIT University. He has previously received funding from the Australia Council, ...

With unprecedented access to Miranda’s inner circle and more than 150 original interviews—including conversations with family, collaborators, and Miranda himself—Pollack-Pelzner’s book offers a deeply ...

As an artist, writing a bio for yourself can be a difficult task. As difficult as writing is, writing about yourself can be even harder, but an effective bio is key to communicating to the world why ...

‘To be a biographer you must tie yourself up in lies, concealments, hypocrisies,” Freud wrote to Arnold Zweig in 1936. “Biographical truth is not to be had, and even if it were to be had, we could not ...