Harry Bachrach, Author at Arts at MIT

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10 things to do in Boston this weekend

BosTen is your weekly guide to events and cool happenings in and around Boston.

March 11, 2021

Collaborations with artists go beyond communicating the science

Scientists and artists are working together as never before, finds a Nature poll. Both sides need to invest time, and embrace surprise and challenge.

February 24, 2021

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In The Lab: A Conversation with Ken Urban

An Interview With Ken Urban By Hayley Finn

January 19, 2021

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How #ArtistSupportPledge Took the Artworld by Storm

British painter Matthew Burrows on creating an alternative economy for artists under lockdown

January 14, 2021

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An Artist for the Dystopian Age

For decades, Tishan Hsu ’73, MAR ’75 has explored the ever more salient relationship between technology and the human body.

January 7, 2021

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TECHNOLOGY AND THE FLESH

In the early 1980s, the painter, sculptor, and all-around technological savant Tishan Hsu ’73, MAR ’75 landed a night job as a “word processor” at a Wall Street law firm.

December 1, 2020

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Pivotal architectural texts digitised by MIT

MIT Press has launched an eBook collection of previously undigitised classic architecture and urban studies publications which have been requested by the public for years.

January 4, 2021

https://lohdownonscience.com/

Viral Music

Chi-Yua Yu and Markus J. Buehler from MIT created a computer program that transforms viral proteins into music!

November 13, 2020

http://www.thecrimson.com/

Experts Discuss the ‘Architecture of Democracy’ in Lecture Hosted by Harvard and MIT

Architects and academic experts discussed the connection between architecture and democracy in a virtual lecture co-hosted by the Harvard and MIT’s Departments of Architecture Wednesday.

October 29, 2020

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Artist Jill Magid Etched a Phrase Onto 120,000 US Pennies That Reflects Society’s Greater Concern for Financial Bodies Than Human Ones

The artist delivered her rolls of pennies to New York City bodegas.

October 14, 2020

https://artery.wbur.org

The Art World Goes Virtual This Fall With Open Studios And Workshops

Just a few months ago, an art opening involved a jam-packed room of patrons standing shoulder-to-shoulder in a gallery, nibbling on crudités with one hand while balancing a glass of wine in the other.

September 25, 2020

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Five things to do online and in person, Sept. 21-27

Watch the MTA Playwrights Lab—a collaboration between MIT students and professional theater artists—stage performance readings featuring the work of student writers.

September 18, 2020

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MIT Music and Theater Arts announce 3rd annual Playwrights Lab

September 17, 2020

https://www.broadwayworld.com/

Seven New Works and More In Development from Guerilla Opera Composers

The Coronavirus emergency left the landscape for the arts gloomy, but Guerilla Opera’s thirteenth season had successes which propelled the company into a new era of female leadership and artistry.

September 4, 2020

https://medium.com/

Arts Institutions in a New Era of Social Imagination

Over the past weeks, art museums have been opening their doors to an entirely changed world.

August 31, 2020

http://www.newyorker.com

Michael Rakowitz’s Art of Return

Through playful, outraged interventions, a sculptor seeks to reclaim a lost Iraq.

August 17, 2020

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Turning Grief for a Hidden Past into a Healing Space

The University of Virginia in Charlottesville, designed by Thomas Jefferson, was built by enslaved people. The Memorial to Enslaved Laborers acknowledges that long-suppressed history.

August 16, 2020

http://www.artnet.com

An AI Algorithm Developed at MIT Can Spot Similarities Between Artworks Made in Vastly Different Periods of Art History

The MosAIc algorithm compares artworks from the collections of the Rijksmuseum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

August 6, 2020

http://www.npr.org

This Audio Portrait Of The 2020 Census Asks: Whose Voices Really Count?

When conceptual artist Ekene Ijeoma decided to deconstruct a monument, he picked a song, not a statue.

August 6, 2020

https://www.gq.com/

The Freewheeling Style of Pro Skater Alexis Sablone

She’s an artist, architect, and animator—and soon an Olympian, as a core member of the United States’ first-ever skate team. Here’s how the perennially stylish 33-year-old polymath puts it all together while keeping it low-key.

July 23, 2020