Century after century , the moon adamantly refused to give up its secrets. Then, around 90 A.D., Plutarch wrote that those blemishes were the shadows of mountains and valleys and that the moon must be habitable. Faced with an unanswerable question, our species generally comes up with theories, guesses, myths and fantasies. A new exhibition, “Apollo’s Muse: The Moon in the Age of Photography,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is a journey through an uncommon history, the history of representations of the moon across four centuries. The show amounts to a testament to the human drive to know and explore, and it quietly affirms the growing influence of visual representations of the moon from the invention of the telescope through the first manned moon landing 50 years ago .

Source: International New York Times July 03, 2019 15:56 UTC