Article: Genes on Display.(art movement has grown out of genes)

DNA becomes part of the artist's palette

A TIME magazine cover featuring geneticists Francis Collins and J. Craig Venter. The box for an adult videocasette, entitled "Designer Genes," showing a buxom blonde in a revealing lab coat. A comic book called "The New Mutants." One of James Watson's original wire-and-metal models of the double-helical DNA stucture, which he and Francis Crick discovered. This odd assortment of objects, reflecting both genetics' history and its influence on culture today, greeted visitors this fall at Exit Art, a gallery in the heart of New York's Soho neighborhood.

The eclectic collection was part of the introduction to an art ...

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