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Bringing together scientific instruments and artworks spanning 340 years, Split | Second invites visitors to consider not only how we can measure time inspired and driven by natural cycles, with human interventions which shape our notions of the concept itself.
February 13, 2026
Brittany Nelson’s practice moves between the speculative frontiers of science and science fiction to surface hidden histories, emotional residues, and institutional artifacts.
January 15, 2026
Freezing Time takes a new look at Edgerton’s early work, including a new look at long forgotten photographs, offering a fresh take on the MIT photographer and his groundbreaking technological advancements that changed photography forever.
January 9, 2026
American Artist’s multidisciplinary work considers the intersections of technology, race, and knowledge production.
October 24, 2025
Flare-Up brings together artist duo Goldin+Senneby’s recent works exploring illness, ecology, and the shifting metaphors through which both are understood.
October 24, 2025
Lighten Up! explores the connection of living organisms with the natural cycle of light and dark and features work by Carsten Höller, James Carpenter, Liliane Lijn, Helga Schmid, and more.
October 6, 2025
Opening September 18, the installation, commissioned by the MIT Museum as part of an extended collaboration with MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology, brings significant research into artistic practice.
August 7, 2025
Lupe Fiasco and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announce that the GRAMMY-winning rapper will perform an on-campus concert on May 2nd with MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble at MIT’s Kresge Auditorium. The upcoming concert marks the conclusion of MIT’s Artfinity festival, a performing and visual arts festival celebrating creativity and community at MIT that began on February 15.
May 14, 2025
Artist and designer Es Devlin and more than 100 members of the MIT community have created MIT Face to Face, a series of portrait drawings by MIT students, faculty and staff, that together form a collective portrait of the MIT community. The project is part of Devlin’s residency for her 2025 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT. The installation of drawings will be on view in a pop up exhibition on April 28-30 at the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building at MIT.
April 29, 2025
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is pleased to announce that artist and designer Es Devlin is the recipient of the 2025 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT. The $100K prize awarded at a gala in her honor also includes an artist residency at MIT in spring 2025, during which Es Devlin will present her work in a lecture open to the public on May 1, 2025.
October 24, 2024
Work-in-Progress Performance by Jordan Rudess, keyboard and jam_bot with special guest Camilla Bäckman, violin/vocals
September 21, 2024 / 8pm / MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
September 17, 2024
Installation of Holograms from the Collection of Holography Pioneer and MIT Professor Stephen
Benton on view at the MIT Museum: Crystal Beginning, Rind II, Head of Aphrodite (“The Bartlett Head”), Motif I, Equivocal
Forks II, and Medusa
On view June 28, 2024 – July 2025
June 13, 2024
Remember when architects made drawings? A new exhibition at the MIT Museum brings us back to a time when those works were considered a hot commodity. Tucked away in a small, upper-floor gallery, Drawing After Modernism is the first exhibition dedicated to architecture in the decades-old Cambridge, Massachusetts institution’s new space.
April 30, 2024
The MIT Museum announces So Easy to See: Berenice
Abbott’s Super Sight, a new exhibition featuring the work of acclaimed photographer Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) in its Ronald A. (1954) and Carol S. Kurtz Photography Gallery, on view October 27, 2023 through March 2024.
October 26, 2023
World Premiere of a New Version of Tod Machover’s Groundbreaking 1987 Opera VALIS
Based on the novel by Philip K. Dick
Starring:
Davóne Tines, Bass-Baritone
Anaïs Reno, Mezzo-Soprano
Directed by Jay Scheib
September 8, 2023
Featuring solo exhibitions of Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Carlos Reyes,
Pedro Gómez-Egaña, and Hana Miletić with a special season of experimental List Projects that commemorates 10 years of the series.
August 23, 2023
On the occasion of Terry Riley’s 88th birthday, MIT Sounding and
ContaQt New Music will host a celebratory event that will truly reverberate across the globe. A community of 88 talented musicians and media artists hailing from six continents will assemble online for a virtual concert, paying homage to the legendary composer.
June 8, 2023
The exhibition of work by emerging architect and multidisciplinary designer Laura Maria Gonzalez features biocemented sculptures made from a unique combination of minerals, highlighting the relationship between the microbes and their environment.
June 2, 2023
RECORDAR: Architectural designer and storyteller Deborah Garcia to present exhibition and sound event that launches multi- channel interactive sound tower
April 7, 2023
Damien McDuffie and Kidus Hailesilassie have been selected as the third cohort of recipients of the MIT & Black Public Media Visiting Artist Residency. This fellowship, hosted by the MIT Open Documentary Lab (ODL) and sponsored by the MIT Center for Art, Science, and Technology (CAST), is designed to support Black artists in researching and developing an emerging-tech nonfiction project.
Oct 13, 2022
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is pleased to announce visual artist Janet Echelman as a 2022-23 Distinguished Visiting Artist at MIT.
Oct 3, 2022
The MIT Museum will re-open in a new location at 314 Main Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Reinvented with new exhibitions and programming, an enlarged Museum Store, and more
Sep 30, 2022
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is pleased to announce that interdisciplinary artist Pamela Z is the recipient of the 2022 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT.
Sep 30, 2022
Massachusetts Institute of Technology announces It Must Be Now!, a unique immersive music and multimedia event featuring the world premieres of newly commissioned work of three leading jazz artists of our time.
May 7, 2022
Created as a new hub for cross-disciplinary education, research, and innovation, and supported by a $100 million founding gift, the academy will deepen the integration of design across the Institute and beyond.
March 14, 2022
The MIT Museum is pleased to announce the
appointment of Dr. Kathryn Wysocki Gunsch as Deputy Director.
January 12, 2022
Artist and poet Andrea Walls is one of two recipients of the 2021 MIT & Black Public Media Visiting Artists Program.
October 12, 2021
Thornton’s List Center exhibition marks the artist’s first US solo museum exhibition and most comprehensive presentation to date.
July 14, 2021
Andrew Norman Wilson’s first solo presentation at a United States institution premieres his new film, Impersonator (2021).
July 13, 2021
Grave/Grove, an exhibition of new sculptural works by Sreshta Rit Premnath that incorporate live plants, examines the ways in which natural, political, and human time are interconnected.
July 13, 2021
MIT and Black Public Media select artist & filmmaker as the 2nd recipient of their fellowship for Black creative technologists working on new forms of documentary
March 11, 2021
MIT will present two major symposia in the arts in April 2021: “Unfolding Intelligence: The Art and Science of Contemporary Computation” April 1-9, focusing on aesthetic, technical, and critical issues pertaining to artificial intelligence (AI) and computational media; and the Max Wasserman Forum “Another World”, April 6-10, exploring the values and aesthetics developed in artworks on digital platforms. The symposia are presented by the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) and by the MIT List Visual Arts Center respectively. Partners for the CAST symposium are the MIT Center for Advanced Virtuality, the MIT Transmedia Storytelling Initiative, and the MIT Trope Tank.
January 28, 2021
Mapping Blackness: A Digital Archive of Black Communities is the brainchild of filmmaker and educator Carla LynDale Bishop, who in September 2020 was named the inaugural recipient of the MIT & Black Public Media Fellowship, The fellowship was created by a partnership between MIT Open Documentary Laboratory (ODL), Black Public Media, and MIT Center for Arts Science & Technology (CAST).
October 8, 2020
harbanger (pronounced “harbinger”), a turntable septet created by Visiting Artists Harry Allen, Hip-Hop Activist & Media Assassin, and X-Ecutioners’ DJ Rob Swift, in a groundbreaking concert featuring DJs Axis Pro, Bobby Bangers, Don Santos, Emoh Betta, Menace, Slipwax, and Treeman debuting compositions by Breakmaster Cylinder, DJ Treeman, and DJ Don Santos.
January 10, 2020
The MIT List Visual Arts Center is pleased to presentChristine Sun Kim: Off the Charts, on view from February 7—April 12, 2020. Working in sound, performance, drawing, installation, and video, the California-born, Berlin-based artist considers the sonic as a multi-sensory phenomenon, whose properties are auditory, visual, and spatial, as well as socially determined.
January 10, 2020
The MIT List Visual Arts Center announced today that Natalie Bell will be its next exhibition curator. Most recently, Bell served as associate curator at the New Museum, New York, where she worked since 2013. Bell begins her new appointment at the List Center on January 15, 2020.
January 6, 2020
The MIT List Visual Arts Center is pleased to announce List Projects 20: Becca Albee , the artist’s first institutional solo presentation.
October 28, 2019
The MIT List Visual Arts Center is pleased to announce a solo exhibition with Berlin-based artist Alicja Kwade.
October 18, 2019–January 5, 2020
MIT announced that TRANSTECTONICS, an exhibition by Spanish architect and designer Cristina Parreño Alonso, lecturer in the MIT Department of Architecture, is on view at MIT’s Keller Gallery through January 31, 2020.
October 25, 2019 – January 31, 2020
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is pleased to announce that British designer Thomas Heatherwick is the recipient of the 2020 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT.
April 25, 2020
The MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) will present The Redemption of Vanity, created by artist Diemut Strebe in collaboration with MIT scientist Brian Wardle and his lab, on view at the New York Stock Exchange September 13, 2019 – November 25, 2019.
September 13, 2019 – November 25, 2019
The Museum of Modern Art announces Neri Oxman: Material Ecology, an exhibition featuring the work of architect, designer, and inventor Neri Oxman, on view from February 22 through May 25, 2020.
February 22, 2020 – May 25, 2020
The MIT Museum presents The Polaroid Project: At the Intersection of Art and Technology (October 11, 2019 – June 21, 2020), the fascinating story of the Polaroid company told through the MIT’s unique Polaroid Collection and an array of stunning Polaroid photographs.
October 11, 2019 – June 21, 2020
Third Mellon grant brings the Mellon Foundation’s total support for CAST to $4,000,000 through 2024
June 25, 2019
The MIT List Visual Arts Center is pleased to announce List Projects: Farah Al Qasimi , the artist’s first solo exhibition at a US institution. Working in photography, video, and performance, Al Qasimi considers how images inscribe identity along the lines of gender, nationality, and class.
July 30, 2019 – October 20, 2019
Rose Salane (b 1992, Queens, New York) studies significant social and cultural moments—events that alter how we see the world and whose impact transcends generations and demographics.Uncovering the intimate and personal stories that are often lost in the larger historical narrative, Salane assembles objects, images, and text, as a means to magnify the details associated with these historic turns.
April 23, 2019 – May 26, 2019
The MIT List Visual Arts Center is pleased to present Ericka Beckman: Double Reverse, on view from May 24-July 28, 2019. With selected films spanning over thirty years of Beckman’s career, this is the largest solo presentation of the artist’s work to date at a US institution.
May 24, 2019 – July 28, 2019
The MIT Museum presents Arresting Fragments: Object Photography at the Bauhaus from March 28 – September 1, 2019 in celebration of the Bauhaus centennial, the most influential design school of the twentieth century (1919-1933) whose cultural impact remains resonant a century later. With 92 prints on view, the exhibition explores the close relationship of photography, graphic design and the book arts, all areas of significant focus and impact for its program.
March 28, 2019 – September 1, 2019
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Microsoft, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) revealed today the results of a recent collaboration—The Met x Microsoft x MIT—that imagines the new ways in which global audiences can engage with one of the world’s foremost art collections through artificial intelligence technologies.
February 4, 2019
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) celebrates the oldest architecture program in the United States with the exhibition, Drawing, Designing,
Thinking: 150 Years of Teaching Architecture at MIT February 14 – August 25, 2019 at the
MIT Museum. Featuring works by distinguished alumni such as Robert R. Taylor ‘1892, I.M. Pei‘40, and Charles Correa ‘55 that they created while students at MIT, the exhibition also presents educational material created by faculty including founder William R. Ware , Gyorgy Kepes, and Joan Jonas , highlighting the Institute’s forward thinking leadership in architectural education.
February 14, 2019 – August 25, 2019
The List Center presents the North American premiere of California-raised, New York-based artist Kathleen Ryan.
Working primarily in sculpture, Ryan’s work is distinguished by her virtuosic grasp of materials, ranging from poured concrete, cast iron, carved marble, and precious stones to found objects such as granite manufacturing blocks and bowling balls.
February 8, 2019 – April 21, 2019
The MIT List Visual Arts Center is pleased to announce a solo exhibition featuring recent and new sculptural work by Kapwani Kiwanga. Kiwanga is a Paris-based artist who traces historical narratives, excavating and considering the global impact of colonialism and how it permeates contemporary culture.
February 8, 2019 – April 21, 2019
Mary Helena Clark (b 1983, Santee, South Carolina) manipulates traditional narrative conventions in cinema to render dissociative states and surreal
environments.
January 8, 2019 – February 10, 2019
MIT Hacking Arts, one of the largest student-run festivals of its kind, to explore where art and technology will intersect in future artistic co-creations.
October 13-14, 2018
The 2018-2019 concert season marks composer John Harbison’s 80th birthday with celebrations throughout the country and around the world, including three major premieres, several new CD releases and the publication of his first book.
September 25, 2018
The artist will research and develop new work in 2018-19 academic year.
September 12, 2018
New Series MIT Performing Signals a Vibrant Performing Arts Destination in Boston/Cambridge
Curated by Professor and Director Jay Scheib.
August 8, 2018
The MIT Museum announces Imagined Communities: Photographs by Mila Teshaieva, a new exhibition of photographs taken in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. The exhibition is a retrospective of Teshaieva’s multi-year work on constructed identities, consisting of three recent projects in which she interrogates the idea of nation as an “imagined community” and a political construct that is often in conflict with private and public memory.
August 2, 2018 – February 28, 2019
The MIT List Visual Arts Center is pleased to present Carissa Rodriguez: The Maid. New York City-based artist Carissa Rodriguez examines the material and social conditions in which art is produced and reveals how the canonical figure of the artist is reflected in—and reproduced by—the products of her labor. Rodriguez’s solo exhibition, which premiered at SculptureCenter in January, features a newly commissioned video work titled The Maid (2018).
Opening Reception: May 17, 2018 6-8 PM
The MIT List Visual Arts Center presents Diary w/o Dates, the first solo exhibition in the US by Canadian-born, London-based artist Allison Katz. Diary w/o Dates is a suite of twelve paintings that construct a mythical present. Katz warps the organizing principles of time, her paintings simultaneously calling to the past and proposing the future. This body of work comes out of parallels she sees between the grid of the calendar and the grid of the canvas, exploring the structured intervals of time and the physical constraints of the painting surface.
Opening Reception: May 17, 2018 6-8 PM
As a sculptor, performer, and writer, Gordon Hall examines the personal, relational, and political effects of the ways we relate to objects and to each other. Using both abstract forms and re-constructed copies of found objects, the artist asks how we might use such things and how they solicit bodily engagements from us. Ultimately, Hall’s interests lie in the social and political dynamics of these engagements.
April 17–May 20, 2018
MIT is pleased to announce that Tony, Grammy and Emmy Award-winning singer and actress Audra McDonald is the recipient of the 2018 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT. The $100,000 cash prize awarded at a gala in her honor also includes an artist residency, during which McDonald will present a public talk at MIT on April 14, 2018 about her performances in musical theater, film and television.
October 26, 2017
Stephen Carpenter II, Ida Ely Rubin Artist in Residence at the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST), and Lawrence Susskind, Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning, will combine art, science and social practice to demonstrate how to enhance practices and possibilities for sustainability through socially engaged art and education.
September 28-30, October 5-7, November 16-18, 2017
The project immerses participants in discussions about violence and humanity by using pioneering VR technology to present interviews with soldiers on opposite sides of conflicts in Israel and Palestine, The Congo, and El Salvador.
October 5 – December 31, 2017
The MIT Museum will honor Professor György Kepes (1906- 2001), one of the most influential art practitioners, educators and writers of the twentieth century, through two exhibitions featuring rare and never-before-seen photographs that span more than four decades of his creative practice.
From Berlin to Chicago, 1930-1946 September 21, 2017 – March 5, 2018
György Kepes Photographs Kepes at MIT, 1946-1974 March 16 – August 2018 (date TBC)
The MIT Museum’s Kurtz Gallery for Photography presents the first solo US exhibition of French photographer Patrick Tourneboeuf (b. Paris, 1966) in The Diamond Trace: Kimberley South Africa in Photographs.Tourneboeuf examines the afterlife of Kimberley, South Africa, a city that grew after the discovery of a large diamond, and declined when the gems became scarce. Through captivating images of its streets and squares, center and outskirts, stadium and cemetery, and famous “Big Hole,” Tourneboeuf examines the social landscape of Kimberley.
April 12, 2017–September 4, 2017
An Inventory of Shimmers: Objects of Intimacy in Contemporary Art,
a group exhibition curated by Henriette Huldisch, brings together works by Andrea Büttner, Sophie Calle, Alejandro Cesarco, Jason Dodge, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Antonia Hirsch, Jill Magid, Park McArthur, Lisa Tan, Erika Vogt, Susanne M. Winterling, and Anicka Yi.
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 18, 6-8 PM
Paris-based artist Charlotte Moth’s first US solo
exhibition Seeing while Moving features photography, sculpture, slide projection, and film. Moth
grounds her practice in documenting architectural spaces, both exterior and interior, as well as
the objects housed within.
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 16, 6 PM
Gwenneth Boelens’s sculptural and photographic work is concerned with perception, memory, and time. The artist’s show at the List Center, her first solo museum exhibition, features a group of recently produced large-scale photograms.
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 16, 6–8 PM
Beiser to collaborate with faculty on three new performances in MIT’s Sounding Series, and present master classes with MIT students
Concerts March 3, April 22 and Fall 2017
BEING MATERIAL will draw leading artists, scientists, engineers, and scholars from around the world to explore the future of programmable materials, 3D/4D printing, synthetic biology, and wearable technologies.
April 21 – 22, 2017
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announces today the world premieres of newly arranged works by multi-instrumentalist, singer and producer Jacob Collier.
December 10, 2016
In celebration of the grand re-opening of the exhibit Gestural Engineering: The Sculpture of Arthur Ganson, the MIT Museum will host “An Evening with Arthur Ganson” on Tuesday, October 18th from 6:00 – 8:00pm.
October 18, 2016
Edgar Arceneaux’s work in sculpture, drawing, and film reflects on cultural and personal memory, and is informed by the belief that all modes of inquiry and systems of knowledge are contingent.
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 13, 6 PM
Despite careers separated by a century, architect Désiré Despradelle (1862–1912) and artist Grazia Toderi (b. 1963) share a conception of the city and urban architecture as spectacle.
September 28, 2016–March 19, 2017
The MIT Museum will host its 19th (XIX) annual Friday After Thanksgiving (F.A.T.) Chain Reaction Event on November 25th from 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. in MIT’s Rockwell Cage Gymnasium at 120 Vassar Street in Cambridge, MA.
September 27, 2016
The artist launches a new residency at MIT, designed for research and development of new work.
September 14, 2016
The Department of Architecture will launch a new Minor in Design (D-Minor) in Fall 2016.
The MIT List Visual Arts Center presents the first American solo museum exhibition by Tehran-born, Los Angeles-based artist Tala Madani.
May 20 – July 17, 2016
Villa Design Group creates sculptures, videos, and scripted performances inspired by the formal languages of architecture, theater, and the decorative arts.
May 20–July 17, 2016
List Projects: Narrative Color considers the relationship between color and narrative in a small selection of artists’ films and videos made since 1970.
April 19 – May 22, 2016
When MIT President Rafael Reif and Cambridge Mayor E. Denise Simmons place small replicas of MIT’s Dome and Cambridge’s City Hall into a collaboratively built 3D model at the new exhibition at the MIT Museum, they will be launching a project that the combined MIT/Cambridge community will help to create over the life of the exhibit—a crowd-sourced 3D printed model of the MIT campus and surrounding community.
March 1- September 6, 2016
The MIT List Visual Arts Center is pleased to present the culmination of a major project by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, I Must First Apologize, an exhibit featuring an extensive body of work that looks at the history of online spam and scamming through film, sculpture, photography, and installation.
February 19 – April 17, 2016
Ann Hirsch’s work in video and performance considers the effects of technology on popular culture; many of her projects examine how young women are portrayed and present themselves in social media and online.
January 5- February 21, 2016
The 2016 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts recipient will address 21st century challenges in public architecture and planning during his residency on campus.
January 29, 2016
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is pleased to announce a gift of $1M to establish the Dasha Zhukova Distinguished Visiting Artist Program.
October 30, 2015
The MIT List Visual Arts Center presents a major exhibition of work by acclaimed Berlin-based artist Rosa Barba, her most comprehensive show in North America to date
October 16, 2015
Headliners: Maya Beiser, Keeril Makan & Jay Scheib’s Persona, Johnny Gandelsman, FLUX Quartet, Pamela Z
September 18, 2015
Exhibition on view at the Kurtz Gallery for Photography, MIT Museum, September 5, 2015 – January 3, 2016
September 11, 2015
Award includes $100K prize, artist residency, gala and four public programs at MIT
September 11, 2015
Through mediums that include sculpture, photography, collage, and writing, Lina Viste Grønli investigates the tensions between physical things and abstract systems, particularly those of linguistics and philosophy.
July 28-October 25, 2015
In combining seemingly permanent and perishable materials, Anicka Yi’s work reorders the cultural forces that privilege containment over leakage, clarity over ambiguity, and vision above all other senses.
May 22, 2015
Situated on MIT’s campus in honor of Officer Sean Collier who was shot and killed on April 18th 2013, the Collier Memorial marks the site of tragedy with a timeless structure—translating the phrase “Collier Strong” into a space of remembrance through a form that embodies the concept of strength through unity.
April, 2015
The MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) has received $1,500,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, in support of the Center’s role as a catalyst for multidisciplinary creative experimentation and integration of the arts across all areas of MIT.
April 22, 2015
On their new and musically diverse release Infinite Winds, the MIT Wind Ensemble and the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble present three long form compositions by three innovative and highly regarded composers: Guillermo Klein, Chick Corea and Don Byron.
April 14, 2015.
Hip Hop Speaker Series Part 1.
Young Guru: Design and Destruction lecture on March 6
Legendary audio engineer, educator and DJ, Gimel “Young Guru” Keaton is one of the men behind the iconic sound of world-renowned artist Jay-Z.
March 2015
The MIT Museum presents Images of Discovery: Communicating Science through Photography, a unique exhibition that includes imagemaking stations providing visitors with direct experiences related to the work of Harold “Doc” Edgerton, and Berenice Abbott; and contemporary practitioner Felice Frankel.
February 14, 2015 – March 1, 2016
The MIT Museum presents a comprehensive exhibition of photography that appeared in every issue of the environmental design journal Places from 1987-2009.
January 22- August 16, 2015
Featuring World Premieres, Reconstructed Classics, and Grammy Award winning musicians in new concert series
July 2014 – April 2015
Presented by the MIT List Visual Arts Center, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
May 9 – November 22, 2015
Features large-scale works by leading contemporary kinetic artists:
Arthur Ganson, Anne Lilly, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and John Douglas Powers November 21, 2013 – January 19, 2015
November, 2013 – January 19, 2015
The MIT Museum announces the opening on June 27, 2012 of The Jeweled Net: Views of Contemporary Holography, an exhibition created in conjunction with the 9th International Symposium on Display Holography, co-sponsored by the MIT Museum and the MIT Media Lab.
June 27, 2012 – ongoing
On view at the MIT List Visual Arts Center October 10, 2014 – January 9, 2015.
September 2014
On view at the MIT List Visual Arts Center October 10, 2014 – January 9, 2015.
September 2014
“Holding hands with the sun”: public lecture March 13, 2014, 5pm. Award includes artist residency, public events, $100,000 prize and gala.
February, 2014
On view at the MIT List Visual Arts Center May 9 – July 13, 2014.
February, 2014
On view at the MIT List Visual Arts Center March 18–May 11, 2014.
February, 2014
Photographic Portraits (1840-1900) from the Wm. B. Becker Collection. On view at the Kurtz Gallery for Photography, MIT Museum April 18, 2014 – January 4, 2015.
January, 2014
Neri Oxman, the Sony Corporation
Career Development Professor and Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, selected as winner of Vilcek Prize for Design.
January, 2014
On view at the List Visual Arts Center February 7–April 6, 2014.
December, 2013
On view at the List Visual Arts Center February 7–April 6, 2014.
December, 2013
On view at the List Visual Arts Center February 7–April 6, 2014.
December, 2013
On view at the List Visual Arts Center January 21–February 23, 2014.
December, 2013
Award includes artist residency, pop-up exhibitions, public lecture, $100,000 prize and gala. MIT Students to work on Olafur Eliasson’s Little Sun project.
October 23, 2013
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology welcomes a new roster of visiting artists in the 2013-14 academic year working in a range of artistic disciplines — from kinetic art to film and sound art to music.
October 16, 2013
A special concert at MIT celebrates the renewal of the research collaboration with Eni.
October 8, 2013
On view at the MIT List Visual Arts Center October 18, 2013 – January 5, 2014,
September 2013
Evan Ziporyn’s new Boston-based ensemble, Critical Band, will play works for winds and amplified instruments by Steve Martland, Joel Roston and Ziporyn on its debut concert at MIT Kresge Auditorium.
September 18, 2013
Photography exhibition depicts the cutting edge of modern experimental physics, providing a glimpse at places and objects rarely seen. On view at the MIT Museum September 13, 2013 – March 30, 2014 in the Kurtz Gallery for Photography.
August, 2013
New members Karen Arenson, Brit d’Arbeloff, Carolyn Fine Friedman and Ellan Spero.
June, 2013
First MIT Video produced especially for broadcast television Jamshied Sharifi’s composition performed by MIT Wind Ensemble.
May 22, 2013
A collaboration between the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) and internationally acclaimed dance company Pilobolus, UP will bring together members of the MIT community to participate in a large-scale live performance piece using umbrellas outfitted with LED lights.
May 8, 2013
On view at the MIT List Visual Arts Center May 9 – July 14, 2013.
April, 2013
On view at the MIT List Visual Arts Center May 9 – July 14, 2013.
March, 2013
On view at the MIT List Visual Arts Center May 9 – June 30, 2013.
March, 2013
The MIT Museum presents first US Exhibition by hotographer Joël Tettamanti. Compass Points: Joël Tettamanti is on view February15 through August 31, 2013.
February 14, 2013
Originating in Germany, this traveling exhibition was developed by the Vitra Design Museum in cooperation with Hi-Cone, and includes an array of 36 classic objects embodies ideals of modernism that are both relevant and popular among students and young people. On view at the MIT Museum April 13 – September 27, 2013.
February 25, 2013
Spring 2013 marks MIT’s first Spring Sound Series, presenting 20 artists on the forefront of sound art in four genre bending concerts, 12 lecture-demos and the film Trimpin: The Sound of Invention.
January, 23, 2013
In Celebration of the 50th anniversary of Jazz at MIT, Chick Corea, NEA Jazz Master and recipient of 18 Grammy awards, is composing a work for the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble.
January 15, 2013
On view at the MIT List Visual Arts Center February 8, 2013 – April 7, 2013.
November, 2012
On view at the MIT List Visual Arts Center February 8 – April 7, 2013.
November 2012
Antoni Muntadas, the Spanish-born, New York-based artist, is the second Audain Visual Artist in Residence for the 2012/13 year.
January 4, 2013
His art is “hanging” from 25 October 2012 to 3 February 2012 in HangarBicocca, Milan.
October 5, 2012
Tomás Saraceno, Vik Muniz & Don Byron Among MIT’s Eight Visiting Artists. Creative artists enhance MIT’s culture of innovation while connecting faculty and students from across the Institute.
September 5, 2012
On view at the MIT List Visual Arts Center October 19, 2012 – January 6, 2013.
September, 2012
$1.5M grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will launch CAST
April 12, 2012
Ring Stone joins MIT Public Art Collection as artist’s first work for a university campus.
April 5, 2012
On view at the MIT List Visual Arts Center May 10 – July 8, 2012.
April, 2012
Inaugural exhibition Berenice Abbott. Photography and Science: An Essential Unity
April 3, 2012
Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT among the most generous cultural prizes in the US; Lepage campus residency includes public programs, collaboration with MIT students, and a gala.
March 12, 2012
Sharifi’s Awakening commissioned by and for MIT Wind Ensemble premieres March 17. Panel discussion on the Arab Spring with MIT community on March 13.
February 27, 2012
On view at the MIT List Visual Arts Center February 10 – April 8, 2012.
January, 2012