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Apollo’s Muse: The Moon in the Age of Photography

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Metropolitan Museum of Art / New York / Art

On July 20, 1969, the world watched as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon. This exhibition celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing. Lunar images spanning the dawn of photography to the present day will include daguerreotypes by John Adams Whipple, photographs from the Apollo mission, and works by artists Vija Celmins, Roy Lichtenstein, Nam June Paik, and more. —J.V.

First Woman on the Moon, 1999; photograph by Aleksandra Mir
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