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This past week, me and my teammates got a chance to visit the Hammer Museum in Westwood. The Hammer is known for accepting work all around the world, especially artists who are up and coming trying to make a name for themselves. One thing I had noticed while being at the museum is the amount of political and social issues that are addressed in the world through the art expressed. As an example, there was a giant red sign that had the words, "END WHiTE Supremacy". One of the popular exhibits at the museum was the Jeanine Oleson exhibit. Jeanine Oleson is from New York and she creates art through photography, film, and sculpting. In the museum, Oleson's focus was using copper and linking the body, manual labor, and resources with art. The title of her project was "Conduct Matters". According to Oleson, "Mining late capitalism's alienating effects through material is extraction and labor...I'm making catalytic instruments and objects which alter ...

This week, Professor Vesna's lecture and discussions were about the history of space and how all the topics from the whole quarter come together through space and art. I was personally interested in Professor Vesna's talk about the history of space, the atomic bomb. and the race to the moon. Along with a hint of history, the class supports the idea of how art and other subjects are able to be connected. In some research online, a man named Floris Bannister wrote an essay called, "Revolutions in Time, Space, and Art". He says in his essay that us as a people have the ability to imagine a life in space due to our artistic side of the brain. A huge influence on the world has come from Copernicus and his ideas for the scientific community and for all of us. Copernicus shows the world how the galaxy is heliocentric and that Earth revolves around the sun. It was not easy for Copernicus to come out and share his findings due to the chance of being mocked and patronized...