“I was the first artist in residence at NASA,” said artist-musician Laurie Anderson, whose work, co-created with fellow mixed-media artist Hsin-Chien Huang, is one of the highlights of the exhibition.

The multidisciplinary artist Laurie Anderson visited the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto this week and held a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite in her hands. It fell to Earth in a North African desert ...