OPENING TODAY
Competing Cosmologies: Interpreting the Sky explores the ways in which the space race and new discoveries in astrophysics and cosmology during the Cold War and beyond have been visualized and interpreted by visual artists on a global scale. Competing Cosmologies: Interpreting the Sky is curated by the Wende Museum’s Chief Curator and Director of Programming Joes Segal, Associate Curator Emma Diffley, and NASA historian Lois Rosson.
The Wende Museum of the Cold War www.wendemuseum.org
10808 Culver Blvd
Los Angeles, 90230
on view in Cosmologies, illustrated below
Paul Laffoley (b. 1935 Cambridge, MA. D. 2015 Boston, MA)
THE THANATON III. 1989
Oil, acrylic, ink, and vinyl lettering on canvas; painted wooden frame
73 1/2 x 73 1/2 in. / 187 x 187 cm.
