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The MIT Grad Arts Forum, a group that encourages artistic collaboration and intellectual discussions among MIT graduate students from different departments, invited the greater Boston community to the 8th Annual Graduate Arts Soirée on March 25, 2017. This event was … Continued
The sculpture Memory and Mechanism by Maiya Geddes in collaboration with Rebecca Geddes depicts the neuroanatomical underpinnings of memory. An anthropomorphic hollowed mahogany sideboard is cut open and its interior exposed.
Beiser sounds like she’s reaching deep into these songs to find personal expression within their boundaries, as would a player of classical repertory.
Maybe you like to come home and rock out to Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd or Janice Joplin. But classical cellist Maya Beiser rocks out in a slightly different way.
Here’s how to roll up your sleeves and celebrate the arts this week—with 29 special classes and workshops in watercolor painting, improv comedy, classical music, sushi-making, and more.
The latest installment in the Rose Kennedy Greenway’s public art collection is underway. The Greenway partnered with the MIT List Visual Arts Center to select Weiner as this year’s mural artist.
Over the past few years, the mural wall at Dewey Square Park has played host to everything from the playful street art of Os Gemeos to the lush dreamscapes of Shinique Smith. But as a quartet of workers used aerial lifts … Continued
MIT Sounding opens with cellist Maya Beiser rethinking canonical rock tunes.
The Dutch artist’s famed kinetic sculptures appear alongside sketches, photographs, and demonstrations of the creatures’ movements.
With a few high-profile projects and a retrospective in Chicago already in tow, David Adjaye was announced by the Council for the Arts at MIT as the 2016 recipient of the Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts.
Ghanaian-British architect David Adjaye is the winner of the 2016 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts presented by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Celebrated architect David Adjaye is the recipient of the 2016 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT, the school announced Wednesday. The prize, which comes with the not-so-paltry sum of $100,000, also includes an artist residency at MIT next … Continued
The Council for the Arts at MIT announced that British architect David Adjaye, Hon. FAIA, is the latest recipient of the Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT. Adjaye will receive $100,000 and a brief residency at MIT next spring, which will include … Continued
David Adjaye has been selected as the winner of MIT’s 2016 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts, which honors “individuals whose artistic trajectory reveals that they will achieve the highest distinction in their fields and continue to produce inspiring work for many … Continued
Getting lost in Venice, they say, is half the fun – and it’s precisely the appeal of the Venice Biennale, which, at its best, upends our established coordinates and unmoors ours points of reference.
David Adjaye is this year’s winner of the $100,000 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts given by MIT. Adjaye will receive an artist residency at MIT as part of the award.
The show, which runs through Jan. 3 at the MIT Museum and includes work from 1979-2015, consists of 84 photographs and more than 200 others printed in 10 leporellos. Other than two recent leporellos, from 2010 and 2012, all the … Continued
It was in 1974 that Joan Jonas, the American artist who represented the U.S. at the 56th annual Venice Biennale this May with the triumphant multimedia installation “They Come to Us Without a Word,” moved into a vast, light-filled loft … Continued
The Apollo 40 Under 40 is a selection of the most talented and inspirational young people who are driving forward the art world today. For our 2015 edition we turned our attention to the leading figures in the USA.
Glassmaking began 4,500 years ago, in Mesopotamia. But ancient wisdom often still has value, and now a group of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have had another look at the coiling method, pronounced it good, and modernized it.
MIT announced that it had bestowed the title of Institute Professor, its highest faculty honor, to three longtime professors. The announcement represents the first time MIT has named new Institute Professors in seven years, demonstrating just how exclusive this group is on … Continued
Mr. Correa designed buildings outside India in his later years. He was one of several top architects, including Frank Gehry, chosen to work on the M.I.T. expansion, which included the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Complex, of which Mr. Correa was … Continued
Glass holds a special place in the world of mad science. So it’s only natural that our very own local mad scientist incubator, MIT, would have its very own band devoted to making brain-bending experimental music with glassware.
Ansel Adams earned renown for his landscape photography. Annie Leibovitz became famous with her portraits of the rich and famous. Felice Frankel has staked out her own small corner of the photography world: science.
IF THE WORD retrospective suggests a certain nostalgia, then it’s fitting that JOAN JONAS, in her celebrated showing at this summer’s Fifty-Sixth Venice Biennale, has rejected the retrospective principle entirely.
