12:30 PM
Free with Museum admission
Think differently about time and space as Rory Padeken, assistant curator, guides visitors through the exhibition Beta Space: Diana Thater.
Think differently about time and space as Rory Padeken, assistant curator, guides visitors through the exhibition Beta Space: Diana Thater.
Long interested in the mysteries of the night sky and the natural world, internationally-recognized artist Diana Thater is fascinated by the dung beetle and its relationship to our galaxy. Inspired by a recent scientific study that revealed how the jewellike beetle uses the Milky Way for nocturnal orientation, Thater developed an entirely new kind of film and video installation to ponder the vastness of the universe and to convey aesthetically the sublime aspects of the cosmic imagination