Performance
A Theatrical Release Party for a Reimagined Golden Record
A Host of People's new production reconceives the 1977 effort to create a phonograph record that would communicate the story of life on Earth to extraterrestrials.
Carl Sagan
Art
Reissuing the Voyager Golden Record, NASA's Quixotic Message to the Stars
Louis Armstrong performing "Melancholy Blues," Mozart's Queen of the Night aria, and panpipes from Peru are etched among the cacophony of Earth sounds on the gold-plated records attached to Voyager 1 and 2.
In Brief
The 116 Photos Carl Sagan and NASA Picked to Share With Aliens
Launched in 1977 by NASA, the Golden Record, a copper phonograph LP, was intended to provide a picture of life on planet Earth to any aliens who might encounter the spacecraft
Opinion
Required Reading
This week's Required Reading has Serra at the Met, pole dancing's relationship to art, tech's relationship to whiteness, mud stenciling, sound art, ruminations on the art world by a bigwig at Christie's and the art of getting high.