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- An Art Show in Washington That's Out of This World
DOUG JOHNSON: e to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English.
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I'm Doug Johnson. On our program this week, we read some of ments about our recent shows...
And we listen to music from two southern bands...
But first, a report on an art show that is out of this world...
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NASA Art
DOUG JOHNSON: An art exhibit opened last week at the National Air and Space Museum building in Washington. The show documents fifty years of space exploration through painting, sculpture, and other media. Artists include Annie Leibovitz, Norman Rockwell, Nam June Paik and many others. Christopher Cruise takes us to the exhibition.
CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: In een sixty-two, the head of America's space agency, NASA, had an unusual idea for documenting space exploration. Why not ask artists to capture the excitement of space exploration through paintings, drawings and sculpture? From that question, the National Aeronautics and Space Agency Arts Program was born. For almost fifty years, the space agency has requested and paid artists for their works.
The artists are given freedom of movement throughout many NASA facilities. For example, one of the early artists in the Arts Program, Franklin McMahon, spent hours in a NASA medical exam room. He studied the equipment and instruments doctors used to examine astronauts just after a flight. The exam room was on a ship that picked up the astronauts after they returned to Earth.
McMahon's drawing "Tilt" shows doctors inspecting Gemini astronaut Ed White on June seventh, een sixty-five. The picture is extremely detailed. It provides as much information as a photograph.
Some art works are far less serious.  Artist Clayton Pond provided a brightly colored silkscreen called "Strange Encounters for the First Time." The picture shows the space shuttle Enterprise and the . Enterprise, the spacecraft from the television show "Star Trek." They are meeting in space. T