Looking for Art in the James Webb Telescope

In the film "2001: A Space Odyssey," an astronaut travels through a seeming tunnel of light. Earlier this summer, Artechouse, an organization producing immersive, technology-based art, started offering a science-backed version of a similar trip at its New York venue. The show, titled "Beyond the Light," is a looping twenty-six-minute journey through space and other realms inspired by images from the James Webb Space Telescope (J.W.S.T.). Artechouse began talks with NASA about a show in 2018, and started pulling this one together earlier this year, after the first images captured by J.W.S.T. were released to the public last July. More than sixteen thousand years ago, cave explorers in what's now Lascaux, France, painted animals that are believed to represent the constellations.