ANTONY GORMLEY with Allie Biswas
Antony Gormley’s career spans thirty-five years, beginning with his first solo exhibition, at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, in 1981.
May 17, 2016
News, interviews, and stories about the arts at MIT
EDITORIAL DIRECTOR
Leah Talatinian
Senior Officer for Marketing and Communications
Viktoria Modesta Talks Tech Style & Her Work at MIT
Performance artist Viktoria Modesta’s black prosthetic leg, which she wears during her music video Prototype, currently showing at MFA’s “#techstyle” exhibit, raises questions about “how a different body silhouette can provoke unexpected emotions,” says Modesta.
May 10, 2016
The Evolution of the First Bionic Pop Artist
Now a famed musical artist, innovation enthusiast and bionic woman Viktoria Modesta’s journey to the spotlight has been anything but ordinary.
May 9, 2016
https://www.bostonglobe.com
Radius Ensemble proves ‘Fresh’ in season finale
CAMBRIDGE — The idea behind Radius Ensemble’s “Fresh Paint” 2015-16 season was that each of the four concerts would be anchored by a commissioned new work.
May 09, 2016
https://www.bostonglobe.com
By land and by water, MIT celebrates 100 years in Cambridge
A procession of over 50 boats, floats, vehicles and more crossed the Charles River.
May 7, 2016
http://www.archdaily.com/
MIT Celebrates Centennial of Cambridge Campus with Two Architecture Installations
In honor of the centenary of MIT’s move to the Cambridge Campus, the university has carried out a series of public events this spring, including the installation of two innovative architecture and design projects: Memory Matrix and Biaxial Tower.
May 7, 2016
http://www.metropolismag.com
MIT’s Memory Matrix Installation: Preserving Culture in Digital Perpetuity
Azra Aksamija is no stranger to the fragile nature of national identity. Born in Bosnia, a country torn apart by a genocide that resulted in the slaughter of more than 100,000 people, about 80,000 of whom were Bosnian Muslims, she … Continued
May 6, 2016
https://www.bostonglobe.com
In Makan’s ‘Persona,’ difficult questions, elusive answers
How vast is the space between the self and its image? How do we map the distance between one’s inner being and the parade of shifting facades, the varying masks we don at home, at work, and on the street, … Continued
May 6, 2016
The case for art in tech: Kleiner Perkins’ John Maeda on ‘breaking free from the tree’
Seattle native John Maeda has a unique perspective on the technology industry, as an engineer and designer who was an MIT Media Lab professor and president of the Rhode Island School of Design before taking on his current role as … Continued
May 4, 2016
https://www.bostonglobe.com
Keeril Makan makes Ingmar Bergman’s ‘Persona’ sing
In 2007, composer Keeril Makan began practicing a meditation form known as Vipassana, which involved long stretches of silence, and during retreats he would sometimes go a week without speaking.
April 29, 2016
Video performance artist Joan Jonas’s pioneering work now in Montreal
American Joan Jonas bought one of the first Portapak video recorders on a trip to Japan in 1970 and started filming her performances in a medium she described as largely “unexplored territory.”
April 29, 2016
I MUST FIRST APOLOGIZE . . . JOANA HADJITHOMAS AND KHALIL JOREIGE
One person’s spam is another person’s literature—or so you might say about Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige’s 16-year-long project investigating scam emails, which culminated in “I Must First Apologize…” at the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
April 17, 2016
http://www.classical-scene.com
Harbisonian Togetherness at MIT
As this year’s recipient of the György Kepes Fellowship Prize at MIT, John Harbison, together with his violinist wife Rose Mary (they have been married for 52 years) and a combo of colleagues, gave a concert on Sunday afternoon at … Continued
April 11, 2016
https://www.bostonglobe.com
Marriage, Monk and Mozart hold sway in recent Harbison works
A few years ago, John Harbison began writing a pair of sonatas for violin and piano.
April 07, 2016
http://www.blouinartinfo.com
Shows That Matter: Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige at MIT List Visual Arts Center
At the MIT List Visual Arts Center, the visitor enters into a din of voices not unlike the one Ovid imagined.
April 04, 2016
Joan Jonas: They Come to Us without a Word II
Developed in conjunction with her exhibition for the U.S. Pavilion at last year’s 56th Venice Biennale, Joan Jonas’s work features new compositions by her longtime collaborator, composer Jason Moran.
March 24, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/
The Kitchen Announces Spring Season
Joan Jonas, whose “They Came to Us Without a Word” at the Venice Biennale last year was seen as a triumph, will bring a version of the work to the Kitchen to open its spring season.
March 23, 2016
https://hyperallergic.com
A Sprawling Tapestry’s Surreal Visions of Egypt
In 2011, the Egyptian-Lebanese artist Lara Baladi began her ongoing project Vox Populi, Archiving a Revolution in the Digital Age, her attempt to archive the flood of documentation that emerged out of the events of Tahrir Square and its aftermath.
March 22, 2016
http://www.archdaily.com/
The Top 100 Universities in the World for Architecture 2016
QS has released its 2016 rankings of the top 100 schools for architecture in the world.As they did last year, MIT came out top of the list in architecture. Read on for the full rankings list for architecture, and be … Continued
March 22, 2016
Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige by Jessica Hong
Based in Beirut and Paris, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige are filmmakers, visual artists, and avid researchers who employ images they have captured or made to investigate our relation with history.
March 17, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/
At M.I.T., Science Embraces a New Chaos Theory: Art
As a graduate student at the respected M.I.T. Media Lab, Marcelo Coelho collaborated with the artist Vik Muniz to help him achieve a poetic and technical feat that teases the imagination: drawing a picture of a castle on a single … Continued
March 4, 2016
https://www.bostonglobe.com
Lebanon-based duo explore e-mail scams at MIT
Falling for a con is a lot like falling in love with the wrong person: At some point, your heart, or your dreams of the future, push you past all the red flags, and you’re in deep.
March 4, 2016
https://www.bostonglobe.com
Remembering a moving day for MIT in 1916
CAMBRIDGE — The dateline matters. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the most prestigious of Cambridge institutions, wasn’t always in Cambridge.
February 29, 2016
https://www.bostonglobe.com
Morton Feldman’s epic String Quartet No. 2, all in a day’s work for Flux Quartet
The frame music puts around time is also a magnifying glass. In an everyday context, 5½ hours might be an unremarkable interval; in the context of Morton Feldman’s String Quartet No. 2, it was practically an epoch.
February 29, 2016
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/
MIT Puts Spam in an Art Gallery with “I Must First Apologize”
Before Nigerian email fraud, there was the Spanish Prisoner letter. This new exhibit examines the history of online scammers.
February 22, 2016