
With NASA’s Curiosity rover once again reviving interest in what Trekkies (but not Shakespeareans) call “the undiscovered country,” it seems that this week’s stellar event, Trevor Paglen’s “The Last Pictures,” takes precautionary measures, launching a series of photographs representative of the current cultural climate into outer space much in the spirit of NASA’s 1977 Voyager Golden Records project, which sent beats from the likes of Beethoven, Stravinsky, Blind Willie Johnson, and Chuck Berry into orbit for safekeeping. The sky, it would seem, is not the limit. READ MORE