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Schubert Feeds the Hungry
Sunday’s Music for Food concert in MIT’s Killian Hall offered three contrasting chamber works within its theme of the year: “Schubert’s Vienna/Our Boston.”
March 20, 2018
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Q&A: Meejin Yoon
For the fourth consecutive year, America’s MIT has been ranked the top university for architecture in the world. What does head of architecture Meejin Yoon think is its secret?
March 16, 2018
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Artist Adam Pendleton’s Work Defies Categorization
At just 34, Brooklyn-based artist Adam Pendleton has proved himself capable of generating such phenomena.
March 6, 2018
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Tribute d’Amore
Last Saturday at Kresge Auditorium the annual Terry and Rick Stone Concert of the MIT Center for Art, Science and Technology (CAST) and the MIT Music and Theater Arts celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Boston recital debut of Marcus Thompson, … Continued
March 1, 2018
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Violist’s career forever linked to MLK
One of only a few African Americans to find success in classical music, violist Marcus Thompson has garnered critical acclaim since the start of his illustrious career.
March 1, 2018
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Audra McDonald receives MIT’s Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts
Audra McDonald is this year’s recipient of the Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT, and as such she joined students and staff for a short residency.
February 16, 2018
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‘Art + Tech: A Citywide Collaboration’ casts a wide net over the Net
“Art + Tech: A Citywide Collaboration,” now rolling out in more than a dozen museums and universities around Boston, throws a wide, easy net over digital art, a medium so common that almost any American city could coordinate cross-institutional programming.
February 15, 2018
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Boston’s Cultural Institutions Explore How Technology Has Impacted Art
While the deCordova focuses on an evolution in video art, the MIT List Gallery in Cambridge focuses on the early stages of internet art with the use of bulky monitors and projection devices.
February 12, 2018
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A multimedia artist attuned to the zeitgeist
When Judith Barry was invited to make a new mural for the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s façade, one image haunted her: a photo of people in an inflatable boat, shot from a drone.
January 26, 2018
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In Cantata Singers premiere, ancient lamentation yoked to modern pain
The Cantata Singers was founded more than half a century ago to explore the music of Bach, and the loyalty of its stalwart audiences is the kind of thing that makes Boston’s music scene unique.
January 22, 2018
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A Deep Dive Into the Brain, Hand-Drawn by the Father of Neuroscience
It’s not often that you look at an exhibition with the help of the very apparatus that is its subject.
January 18, 2018
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In ‘Lamentations,’ Peter Child ties biblical texts to current refugee crisis
“Lamentations,” a new work for vocal soloists, chorus, and orchestra by Peter Child, is a piece that resonates in a variety of ways with the history of the Cantata Singers, the group for whom it was written.
January 3, 2018
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The More We Learn About ‘Dido and Aeneas,’ the Less We Know
Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas” is one of the most beloved operas in the repertory.
December 15, 2017
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Dezeen’s top 10 installations of 2017
This shed-like pavilion by artist Matthew Mazzotta features a cloud-shaped element over its corrugated roof, which rains whenever someone sits inside.
December 11, 2017
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New Book from MIT Honors Pioneering Graphic Designer Muriel Cooper
Cooper is not in the pantheon of “great men” of graphic design, despite being the rare or even singular figure whose achievements were marked in both print and digital media.
December 8, 2017
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Boston arts groups team up for sprawling look at art, technology
This February, 12 Boston-area arts organizations will band together to present a sprawling series of exhibitions exploring the symbiotic relationship between art and technology.
December 06, 2017
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This VR Exhibit Lets You Connect with the Human Side of War
A pioneering photojournalist hopes VR can restore war photography’s dramatic power to influence and inform us.
December 6, 2017
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‘Mosque Manifesto’ by Azra Akšamija showing at The Anderson
“Mosque Manifesto” by artist Azra Akšamija is showing at The Anderson, the exhibition and program space for VCUarts, the School of the Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University.
December 5, 2017
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Photojournalist uses VR in war exhibition to ‘expand moral imagination’
Virtual Reality isn’t a mere fad which will come and go – it is technology that will soon turn empirical experience on its head.
December 4, 2017
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BAT OUT OF HELL, THE FERRYMAN, Andrew Garfield, Amber Riley & More Win Big at 2017 London Evening Standard Theatre Awards
Evening Standard Radio 2 Audience Award for Best Musical was presented to Bat Out of Hell.
December 3, 2017
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Face To Face With ‘The Enemy,’ Viewers Explore Conflict In Virtual Reality At MIT
Peek into the MIT Museum on Mass. Ave. in Cambridge, and you may glimpse a slightly odd scene: a group of people huddled together, wearing sci-fi-looking headsets.
November 30, 2017
https://hyperallergic.com
8 US Colleges Lending Their Art Collections to Students
As the fall semester draws to a close and — while avoiding studying for finals — you consider redecorating your sparse dorm room, try to think bigger than the usual arrangement of postcards, posters, and Polaroids.
November 28, 2017
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Can virtual reality change how people respond to war reporting? One photojournalist is trying to find out
As a photojournalist, Karim Ben Khelifa has been on the frontlines of wars and international conflicts — including in Iraq and Afghanistan — observing and documenting them through his camera lens.
November 22, 2017
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MIT Announces New Commissions
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has commissioned new public artworks by Olafur Eliasson and Nick Mauss, due to be unveiled in fall 2018.
November 16, 2017
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Coming Face-to-Face with The Enemy at the MIT Museum
Slip the straps of the eight-pound backpack over your shoulders, buckle it around your waist, and try not to tense up as an attendant tightens your virtual-reality headset.
November 9, 2017