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, Francis Crick Institute, London, to 1 December

AS EUROPE’s premier biomedical enterprise, there is a lot riding on how far the UK’s multi-million-pound Crick Institute can push the frontiers. Less obviously but equally importantly, there is also a lot riding on how well it handles its engagement with the public, through lectures, exhibitions and sci-art collaborations.

Crick’s first approach to the latter is Deconstructing Patterns, a show where commissioned artists worked closely with the institute’s researchers to explore patterns at the microscopic level. Perhaps wisely, the exhibition is framed as a conversation between art and science.…