{"id":169078,"date":"2023-08-05T10:25:11","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T15:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/the-lunar-codex-will-archive-the-work-of-30000-artists-on-the-moon"},"modified":"2023-08-05T10:25:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T15:25:11","slug":"the-lunar-codex-will-archive-the-work-of-30000-artists-on-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/the-lunar-codex-will-archive-the-work-of-30000-artists-on-the-moon","title":{"rendered":"The Lunar Codex Will Archive the Work of 30,000 Artists\u2014on the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-lunar-codex-will-archive-the-work-of-30000-artists-on-the-moon2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Samuel Peralta contacts artists about putting their work on the moon, they don\u2019t always believe him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI say, \u2018I\u2019d like to put your art on the moon,\u2019 and they think this is some sort of a scam,\u201d the semiretired physicist and author tells the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/07\/27\/arts\/design\/lunar-codex-time-capsule-moon.html\"><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a>\u2019 J. D. Biersdorfer.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s true. Peralta is the mastermind behind the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lunarcodex.com\/\">Lunar Codex<\/a>, a series of time capsules containing the work of 30,000 artists from 157 countries that will journey to the lunar surface. Peralta wants the project to honor artists after the difficulties they faced during the pandemic, he tells the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/why-this-toronto-man-is-sending-an-art-gallery-to-the-moon\/article_55aa8e79-8e4b-5646-92f2-b5eca0034fc0.html\"><em>Toronto Star<\/em><\/a>\u2019s Kevin Jiang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Samuel Peralta contacts artists about putting their work on the moon, they don\u2019t always believe him. \u201cI say, \u2018I\u2019d like to put your art on the moon,\u2019 and they think this is some sort of a scam,\u201d the semiretired physicist and author tells the New York Times\u2019 J. D. Biersdorfer. But it\u2019s true. Peralta [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}