August 2009
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“One of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from...”
– Albert Einstein, 1918.
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NASA'S ART PROGRAM GOING STRONG
Last year, when the Guggenheim mounted its Nam June Paik retrospective, one installation, The Moon Is the Oldest TV, 1976, stood out for being both poetic and technically refined—and appropriately so: It was commissioned by NASA. Surprisingly, this kind of collaboration between the US government’s space agency and a well-known contemporary artist isn’t all that new. For thirty years, NASA has been...
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"Everyone's Gone to the Moon: Space Exploration in...
On September 12, 1962 John F. Kennedy visited Rice University and delivered a gripping speech in which he explained, “…If I were to say, my fellow citizens, that we shall send to the moon, 240,000 miles away from the control station in Houston, a giant rocket more than 300 feel tall … on an untried mission, to an unknown celestial body, and then return it safely to Earth, re-entering the...
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WatchDear Rain, please stop. Example 1. Example 2. Example 3.