Posted by tourdemars to Entertainment at April 1, 2005 02:33 PM

All true aesthetes know that the dullest intellectual movement of the twentieth century was Earthism. Trees? Mountains? Humans? Boring, boring, boring. Yet most influential art museums actually endorse these trite subjects! Ever seen Cézanne's Bords d'une rivière? It's a riverbank. How original. Let's be honest: Our planet often seems like nothing but a bunch of feral cats and plots of arable land. It's time to move on with our art. As a certain Predator II once put it, "Earth is nothing to write home about." The Johnson Museum's new and startling photography exhibit, "Rover Landings: Cornell on Mars," addresses this problem by shifting our attention away from our overly familiar planet. This is not artwork from a Lower East Side loft; it's the result of advanced robotics in a desolate, crimson hellscape without oceans or oxygen. In other words, it's a lot like the ILR library.