Mariner 9
In its final few days at the Laing Art Gallery
[http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/laing-art-gallery/whats-on/exhibitions/mariner-9.html]
, Newcastle, Mariner 9 is an installation by video artist Kelly Richardson
[http://www.
Space
Branding the Moon
"Moscow shot for the Moon, and scored a bullseye".
Although the Americans were the first to set foot on the Moon in 1969, they were
not the first to leave their
The death of Kosmograd
Baikonour is dying.
> "Kosmograd was a dream, Colonel. A dream that failed. Like space. We have no
need to be here. We have an entire world to put in order."
Red Mars 3
As the Curiousity mission to Mars nears the Red Planet, another venture, Mars
One [http://mars-one.com/], aims to build a permanent settled colony on Mars by
2023. They make it sound so
ma.r.s.
Finishing this week is Thomas Ruff's exhibition ma.r.s.
[http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/thomas-ruff--march-08-2012-2] at the
Gagosian gallery on Brittania Street.
The exhibition features a series of large C-prints