The 20th-century Space Race wasn’t just a battle of technological breakthroughs and idealogical one-upmanship. It offered artists a way to explore the final frontier. “Infinity is the largest format,” the Ukrainian artist Fedir Tetianych said. The cosmos could be mystical, spiritual, and brimming with possibility. A new exhibition at the Wende Museum explores artists’ interstellar visions across four sections—Astronomy, the Space Race, Futurisms, Aliens—and reveals how outer space has shaped visual culture around the world. —Maggie Turner