Genes on Display

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 structure, which he and Francis Crick discovered.