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Alien 'art' soon to be revealed

26 July 2006

THE universal language of, well, the universe, is art, and to say hello, aliens have apparently already sent us their artwork. The work will be exhibited at the Judah L. Magnes Museum in Berkeley, California, from 30 July.

“Aliens have already sent us their artwork, and it is to be exhibited in a museum”

Thank artist Jonathon Keats for this. He was the first to consider that aliens will not send us Pythagoras’s theorem or mathematical symbols. “If I were [ET] trying to communicate with beings elsewhere in the universe…I’d try to express something about myself in the most universal…

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