Killing Off Living Exhibits at MoMA

Staying in the museum world for a second, we caught this brief, very strange story over at the NY Times. It concerns one of the more unusual showings at the MoMA‘s current “Design for the Elastic Mind,” a piece created by SymbioticA called Victimless Leather, that featured a mad scientist looking creation that was keeping handful of living mouse stem cells alive on top of a miniature coat. Apparently, the museum found that the thing started growing like mad (perhaps into a new mouse?) and, after getting the okay from the artists, they