Popular artist Jeff Koons is also getting in on the lunar action, launching his “Moon Phases” art cubes, which is made up of 125 small stainless steel sculptures of the different phases of the ...

Koons’ work set to be installed on the moon comprises 125 miniature (one-inch) stainless-steel sculptures in a cubed array designed and built by 4Space in consultation with the artist. Each mini-moon ...

They’re meant to reproduce the wall paintings from a Roman villa at Boscoreale, near Pompeii, from the first century B.C., some of which now reside in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Though its arrival marks a milestone, “Moon Phases” is not the only art to touch down on the moon’s surface. In 1971, Apollo 15 crewmembers left an aluminum figure by the Belgian artist Paul ...

The Jeff Koons: Moon Phases Project project, which was first announced in 2022, was scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida today but is now due to take ...