Moody Center for the Arts, Houston presents Diana Thater’s “Starry Messenger" from February 24, 2017 through February 2018.The Starry Messenger (2014), a nine-monitor video wall by the Los Angeles-based artist Diana Thater (b. 1962), pays tribute to Houston’s renown as a city at the forefront of space exploration. This spectacular and encompassing work presents a changing vista of the Milky Way filmed in the Griffith Observatory Planetarium in Los Angeles, shot from below the massive Zeiss star projector. In partnership with the Rice Space Institute, the work will be at the center of a series of cross-disciplinary conversations about the technology of space exploration and the impact it has on life on Earth.The video wall will be on view at Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, MS-480 Houston, TX 77005-1827.For details, visit: https://moody.rice.eduClick on the slideshow for a sneak peek of the show.
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