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"The compliment “out of this world” has now taken on new meaning when it comes
to the beloved Modernist sculptor Ruth Asawa. A crater on Mercury was named
after the late artist last month, making her one of a rare group of less than
30 women artists whose legacies are etched into our solar systems, including
Augusta Savage, Tarsila do Amoral, and Dorothea Lange.
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) officially named the “Asawa” crater
on November 14, but the news properly came to light when American curator and
art writer Helen Molesworth, who contributed to
Ruth Asawa: Life’s Work
(2019), shared the tidbit in an Instagram post earlier this week.
According to the existing categories for naming planetary features, craters on
Mercury are to reference visual, performing, and literary artists who have made
“outstanding or fundamental contributions to their field and have been
recognized as art historically significant figures for more than 50 years.”
In an email to
Hyperallergic, Tenielle Gaither, project lead for the
Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, which provides information on names
chosen by the IAU, explained that an in-process proposal included names for
seven other craters on the planet. These are Peruvian painter Julia Codesido;
Chinese ink painter Wu Shujuan; Palestinian artist Jumana El Husseini;
Uruguayan artist María Freire; Egyptian painter Tahia Halim; 20th-century
Ukrainian painter Kateryna Bilokur; and American speculative fiction author
Ursula K. Le Guin."
Via Susan ****
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
