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“[ENOCH] really has a deep relationship to someone who managed to transgress, and gotten somewhere where he wasn’t supposed to be, and this is something that is really inspiring to me.” —Tavares Strachan

Robert Lawrence Jr. was the first African-American to train as an astronaut with NASA in the 1960s, but he never made it to space, having died in a tragic training accident in 1967. In 2014, artist Tavares Strachan (b. 1979, Bahamas) set out to rectify that omission, in what has become one of our favorite projects here at Daily Plinth HQ. On December 8, 2018, with the support of Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Art & Technology Lab, Strachan’s satellite in honor of the legacy of Lawrence, ENOCH, was launched into space on a Space X Falcon 9 rocket. In early January of 2019, it was confirmed that the satellite successfully deployed and is now in orbit around the Earth.

LACMA produced this video about the concept and its incredible behind-the-scenes development, with interviews with Strachan as well as other key players in the project.

Museums

Sponsor
8:04

MUSEUMS: Sarah Oppenheimer: Sensitive Machine

5:24

MUSEUMS: For Walter J. Hood, Architecture Means Power

4:28

MUSEUMS: Fabric Workshop and Museum Explores Clay and Fabric

8:08

MUSEUMS: Julie Mehretu Behind-the-Scenes With Checkerboard Films

2:09

MUSEUMS: Alice Neel Paints Life “Hot off the Griddle”

Galleries

5:24

GALLERIES: Alec Soth Takes the Measure of Photography

6:09

GALLERIES: Pablo Picasso: Seven Decades of Drawing

3:41

GALLERIES: For Landon Metz, Failure is an Option

4:17

GALLERIES: Jacob El Hanani Is a Line-Maker

1:09:20

LONGFORM: Sheila Hicks Reflects From Home in Paris

Studios

1:53

VAULT: Philip Guston Biopic Trailer (1981)

3:32

STUDIOS: Joep van Lieshout on Going Beyond Beautiful Design

5:02

STUDIOS: Peter Beard: “Nature is the best thing we’ve got”

10:34

STUDIOS: Ursula von Rydingsvard’s Material Instinct (2000)

3:00

STUDIOS: Billy Childish Gets Out of the Way of the Picture

Community

36:17

PODCAST: ‘Barbara London Calling’ Launches Season 2

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47:07

LONGFORM: Hughie O’Donoghue in Conversation with Charles Saumarez Smith

3:31

COMMUNITY: William Eric Brown Applies New Processes to Old

58:08

PODCAST: Heidi Zuckerman in Conversation with Adam Pendleton

22:57

LONGFORM: ‘To Cast Too Bold a Shadow’ Exhibition Walkthrough

Market

3:39

MARKET: For Kimsooja, Immaterial Art Achieves Memory

15:35

MARKET: How Christie’s and Sotheby’s Dominate the Art Market

3:00

MARKET: Ghada Amer on Being a Woman Artist

4:37

MARKET: Catherine Petitgas is an Enabler

2:34

MARKET: Kunsthalle Basel Is of Its Time