EDITORIAL DIRECTOR
Leah Talatinian
Senior Officer for Marketing and Communications
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The small (but densely layered, as always) collection of Ann Hirsch‘s work in the Bakalar Gallery at MIT’s List Center is Boston’s first introduction to her art.
Adjaye Associates has been named among the finalists for another high-profile project in the US – this time for a new building at Syracuse University in New York.
Best known for his elaborate copies of iconic images from pop culture and the Western art-historical canon, São Paulo–born artist Vik Muniz is now the recipient of a midcareer retrospective, consisting of 120 photographs and three sculptures, dating from 1989, … Continued
Artist Olafur Eliasson will give a talk, with Carol Becker, the dean of faculty and professor of the arts at Columbia, about “design that changes lives and communities.”
Reading a group text message or chatroom thread is always disorienting. If you are the parent of one of the participants, and if your child is prepubescent or thereabouts, the shock can be profound.
We asked 12 design and tech gurus to predict the advancements in AEC that you should see this year.
As the year runs away from us, let’s take a moment to remember some of the public art in the region that will be hard to forget.
To quote Charles Dickens, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” But there’s no point in generalizations, so we decided to ask some key cultural people we respect what they specifically loved and hated about … Continued
Honorable mention “Joan Jonas: They Come to Us Without a Word,” US Pavilion, Venice Biennale
This was a banner year for great artists and curators who just happened to be women. Over the summer, the most beautiful and audacious piece of public art in Boston in living memory was suspended over the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy … Continued
It took more than market momentum or critical acclaim to have a breakout year in 2015.
More than 300 years ago, a soldier in Europe wrote to an actress in The Hague, Netherlands, recalling a previous fling and begging her to get back in touch.
MIT professor emerita Joan Jonas, who represented the United States at the Venice Biennale, has been named the next visual arts mentor for the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative.
For COP21 Paris, Saraceno presents at the Grand Palais Aerocene, the first of a series of air-fuelled sculptures that will float in the longest, most sustainable journey around the world.
When Harpers Bazaar dubbed Moscow-born, LA-raised Dasha Zhukova the “newly crowned queen of the international arts scene,” we couldn’t help but pay attention.
In the wake of major milestones such as the successful Rosetta Mission landing and NASA’s first object 3D printed in space, we at The Creators Project are getting a serious case of space travel fever.
DETROIT – International composer, inventor and Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Tod Machover spent the past year contemplating the question: “What does Detroit sound like?”
For the 56th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, curated by Nigerian critic and art historian Okwui Enwezor, the overall curatorial tenet is “All the World’s Future.”
Twisty, shiny, and sometimes otherworldly depictions of the brain are popping up across the country. Artists say they want to use the pieces to inspire people to contemplate what’s happening inside their heads.
We think of imagination as limitless. It is not. It can come up against its own limits very quickly, and when it does, it simply sputters out, like the end of a celluloid reel.
CAMBRIDGE — You’ll occasionally hear from musicians that certain seemingly complex works aren’t as hard as they sound to a listener.
In a collection of both solo piano pieces and arrangements of full orchestral works, pianist David Deveau offers a survey of Romantic works ranging from the strict classicism found in early Brahms to the incendiary grandeur of Wagnerian art, culminating … Continued
On October 23 & 24, Persona, a new opera from composer Keeril Makan and adaptor / librettist / director Jay Scheib, will make its world premiere at National Sawdust.
Suzan-Lori Parks has reason to feel like a million dollars: On Wednesday she will be announced as the winner of the $300,000 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, organizers said, raising her total arts prizes from the last 10 years into … Continued
“Sometimes very great artists who approach their life’s work with total selfless devotion, great humility, and modesty remain under-appreciated and their legacy undervalued.”
