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At MIT, Minimalism meets meaning
Kapwani Kiwanga is Canadian-born and Paris-based, though her new exhibition at the MIT List Visual Arts Center tells Boston something about itself.
February 21, 2019
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INTERSECTIONAL FABULOUSITY OF WORK IN PROGRESS: CONVERSATION WITH AYESHA JORDAN AND JUSTIN HICKS
Ayesha Jordan and Justin Hicks have been collaborators for many years.
February 19, 2019
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Rona Wang ’21 talks identity, art, and writing the heroes of your own story
Publishing the short fiction collection ‘Cranesong’
February 14, 2019
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Human-scented perfume, bacteria-painted sculptures, mind-controlled sperm: art in the new era
Research-based artist and MIT graduate Ani Liu’s redefines contemporary art
February 14, 2019
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‘Light Ballets’ And ‘Light Robots’ Illuminate Visionary Artist Otto Piene’s Career And Groton Roots
An eye-popping arc stretched across the Charles River in 1971 — but it wasn’t a rainbow.
February 11, 2019
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Art World News Today
Among the top visual arts headlines today: MoMA to close its doors for expansion and renovation from June 15 to October 21; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Microsoft, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to explore the impact of … Continued
February 7, 2019
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Rona Wang’s debut story collection sings
Empathizing with the lyrical, moving images of queer and Asian identity in ‘Cranesong’
February 7, 2019
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Setting Up In Empty Storefronts, Spaceus Wants To Keep Artists’ Workspaces Front And Center
As architecture students at MIT for the last few years, Stephanie Lee and Ellen Shakespear walked through Central Square each day to class. They saw the neighborhood change — Cambridge artist spaces Out of the Blue Too and EMF both closed … Continued
February 7, 2019
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Spaceus pops up in East Cambridge, Massachusetts
The creation of two MIT graduate students Ellen Shakespear and Stephanie Lee, Spaceus takes empty storefronts and turns them into temporary workspaces and information centers for artists.
February 6, 2019
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The Met Museum Envisions a Future Where Artificial Intelligence Helps You Find #Art Posts for Your Instagram
The New York institution teamed up with Microsoft and MIT to create prototypes that imagine how AI can help museums engage audiences.
February 5, 2019
Imagined Communities: Photographs by Mila Teshaieva
Though her first East Coast solo exhibition is formally promoted as featuring three of her recent photographic series that explore the complexities of national identities and memories in former USSR territories, the brilliance of photographer Mila Teshaieva’s show lies not in the … Continued
February 5, 2019
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Inmates And MIT Students Team Up To Turn A Blank Wall Into A Lasting Experience
About a dozen women inmates — and just as many MIT students — have gathered in the activity room at South Bay House of Correction every day for the past few weeks.
January 25, 2019
‘Spider’s Canvas/Arachnodrone’: A web of otherworldly music
“Spider’s Canvas/Arachnodrone,” a sonic exploration of a spider’s web, is the result of a meeting of minds at MIT.
January 20, 2019
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A Mad Scientist of the New York Avant-Garde Gets a Retrospective
Curiosity diverted Tony Conrad into the underground worlds of experimental music and filmmaking, and to an unpretentious understanding of himself as a conceptual artist.
January 2, 2019
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Hashim Sarkis to curate the 2020 Venice Architecture Biennale
The board of the Venice Biennale and President Paolo Baratta have chosen Hashim Sarkis as the curator of the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale.
December 19, 2018
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Hashim Sarkis to curate Venice Architecture Biennale 2020
Architect Hashim Sarkis, dean of architecture and planning at MIT, will be director for the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2020.
December 19, 2018
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MIT School of Architecture to move into Diller Scofidio + Renfro-renovated warehouse
The MIT school of architecture, which has long been dispersed across the campus, will soon have a central base in a large brick warehouse across the street on Massachusetts Avenue.
December 15, 2018
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Best art museum shows of 2018
“Before Projection: Video Sculpture 1974-1995” at the MIT List Visual Arts Center listed as Best Video Show.
December 14, 2018
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Gordon Hall: The Number of Inches Between Them
An artist reflects on the social and philosophical implications of Bruce Nauman’s treatment of his body as a material to be manipulated in sculpture and performance.
December 10, 2018
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Top 10 Exhibitions for 2018
One of the finest moving-image gallery exhibitions in recent memory, curator Henriette Huldisch’s eye-opening show of video art from the cathode-ray era conveys the history of the medium with an all-too-rare precision, mingling canonical names with rediscoveries.
December 10, 2018
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The Arneis Quartet flowers at MIT
The Boston-based Arneis Quartet (violinists Heather Braun and Rose Drucker, violist Daniel Doña, cellist Agnes Kim) takes its name from a variety of grape that is notoriously difficult to cultivate.
December 9, 2018
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5 Things To Do This Weekend, From ‘Black Nativity’ To Rule-Breaking Art
Now, British jazz prodigy/YouTube sensation Jacob Collier returns to MIT for a two-week residency and an extravagant musical blowout, timed to coincide with the release of his new album, “Djesse, Vol. 1.”
December 6, 2018
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Reaching Tech’s Limit, YouTube Phenom Jacob Collier Seeks A Human Touch
In a stuffy studio at MIT’s Media Lab, Jacob Collier and Ben Bloomberg are squeezed in front of a small desk flanked by big speakers.
December 5, 2018
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John Harbison Finds Ever More Creative Avenues
From large-scale works for the opera house and concert hall to intimate violin solos, MIT Institute Professor John Harbison has created an abundant catalogue of music that engages in an extraordinary dialogue between past and present.
December 5, 2018