An artwork is a living organism. If you visually break down a work of art into its various components and systems, you will begin to understand how each of its elements functions and how those ...

The colorful pigment extracted from the lac insect may actually be produced by a symbiotic yeast-like organism living inside ...

The beautiful, tangled art installations that Philip Beesley ... producing forms akin to single-celled organisms moving and interacting in a protoplasmic soup, expressed as flashes of light ...

He's gotten rid of the clown outfit, but now he's twisting hundreds of balloons into giant micro-organisms ... It was part of the Art and Science Day exhibition. Museum volunteers climbed inside ...

The team used state-of-the-art electron microscopes to capture an image of the super-small bacteria within before sequencing the organism’s genome. (They found about one million base pairs of DNA.) ...

Until recently, most exhibitions at the non-profit art space Para Site in Hong Kong were like mini biennales – packed to the gills with work by multiple artists. “We really pushed the limits ...