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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 ...

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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 ...