Minutes before the Artemis II astronauts headed into a 40-minute radio blackout while swooping around the moon's far side on Monday, they could look out from their Orion spacecraft and see something wonderful: the blue crescent of Earth as it dipped ever lower on the horizon of a lifeless, pockmarked moon. They did more than just watch, of course. Crewmembers captured the Earthset in a memorable photograph that, noted The New York Times, "rivals the iconic Earthrise captured by the astronauts of Apollo 8 in 1968." It was just one of many dazzling images the astronauts shot on their trip, during a week when fears of war shook our world.

Thursday, April 9-Sunday, April 12: The IFPDA Print Fair at Park Avenue Armory The “gold standard for fine art print collecting” (ARTnews, April 7, 2025), the IFPDA Print Fair is an annual pilgrimage site for print curators and collectors.  This spring, the fair returns to the Park Avenue Armory from April 9 to 12 with 80 exhibitors and an expanded focus on drawings alongside prints in a nod to the medium’s long-standing relationship with print...