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Gallery Roundup

  Thea Djordjadze List Visual Arts Center, October 10, 2014 – January 4, 2015 Combining traditional materials of sculpture such as plaster and wood with everyday objects like foam and linoleum, Thea Djordjadze (born 1971, Tbilisi, Georgia) creates installations of … Continued

THE 21ST CENTURY’S 12 GREATEST NOVELS

BBC Culture named MIT Professor Junot Diaz’s first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, as the 21st century’s greatest novel.

January 19, 2015
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PROGRESSIVE ARCHITECTURE AWARDS

Honorable Mention for the Ordos 20+10 Office Complex by NADAAA (Architecture Professor Nader Tehrani’s firm) in Association with Himma Studio.

February 2015
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Art for the Age of the Anthropocene

When Tomás Saraceno first came to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a Visiting Artist in 2012, he met with the late Otto Piene, who was then Professor Emeritus of Visual Design and the second director of the influential Center … Continued

February, 2015
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PRESIDENTS DAY AND SCHOOL VACATION WEEK EVENTS IN BOSTON

The MIT Museum celebrates National Engineers Week with “Feb Fest: Light, Cameras, Science!”, a week of engineering-centric activities, workshops, and demos.

February 10, 2015

DOES THIS FACE LOOK FAMILIAR? VALERIE JARRETT’S ANCESTOR HONORED WITH STAMP

In 1892, Taylor became the first black student to graduate from MIT and went on to become the nation’s first academically trained black architect.

February 12, 2015
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MICROBIAL MASTERPIECES

MIT Visiting Artist Anicka Yi explores the beauty of bacteria with MIT Research Scientist Tal Danino.

February 12, 2015
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AT THE MIT MUSEUM, WAYS OF LOOKING AT THE WORLD

“Photographing Places: The Photographers of Places Journal, 1987-2009” runs at the MIT Museum through Aug. 16.

February 15, 2015
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TEHRAN MUSEUM TO HOLD GERMAN ARTIST OTTO PIENE RETROSPECTIVE

One of the leading figures in technology-based art, Otto Piene was the first fellow of MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) and its Director from 1974 until his retirement in 1994.

February 17, 2015
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EXHIBIT REVIEW: DRAWING APART

Blurring the line between observation and perception.

February 19, 2015
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BOSTON SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTS ANNOUNCE 2014 DESIGN AWARD WINNERS

Shiela Kennedy (Kennedy & Violich) and Nader Tehrani (NADAAA) are both recipients; each award recognizes projects that excel both aesthetically and technically, making a positive impact in the field of architecture.

February 21, 2015
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SHADE OF MEANING: CLINIC IN TURKANA, KENYA, BY SELGAS CANO, IGNACIO PEYDRO AND MIT STUDENTS

A clinic in Kenya built by students in José Selgas’s MIT unit raises questions about the ethics of educational tourism in relation to the needs of the Global South.

February 23, 2015
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A FUTURE OF PRODUCTS THAT ASSEMBLE THEMSELVES?

Under the direction of Skylar Tibbits, the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT is revolutionizing the way things are made – by designing them to make themselves.

February 24, 2015
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YOUNG GURU TO LECTURE AT MIT

The legendary audio-engineer also reflects on his experience as a teacher.

February 24, 2015
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YOUNG GURU TO LECTURE AT ‘HIP-HOP SPEAKER’ SERIES AT MIT

Guru, who has produced tracks for Jay Z, Talib Kweli, Fabolous, Mariah Carey, Beyonce and more, is also an artist-in-residence at the University of Southern California’s Thorton School of Music where he encourages for hip-hop “to be studied and revered … Continued

February 25, 2015
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Young Guru will lecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The new series at MIT aims to bring leaders in Hip Hop together with faculty to find a way to bring about interesting insights.

February 25, 2015
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YOUNG GURU TO PRESENT ‘DESIGN AND DESTRUCTION’ LECTURE AT MIT

Tackling the innovative areas of technology and design, Professor Guru will demonstrate how those aforementioned areas can help breathe life into an idea and its role in the music industry.

February 25, 2015
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CAROLINE A. JONES ON “ZERO COUNTDOWN TO TOMORROW, 1940S-60S”

The MIT art history professor reflects on the Guggenheim’s new exhibit.

March Issue
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Anicka Yi at The Kitchen

The thriving bacterium, which Yi nurtured with the help of MIT synthetic biologist Tal Danino, is a budding contaminant, a collective, germy growth.

March Issue
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INVENTOR/EDUCATOR TOD MACHOVER’S “VOCAL VIBRATIONS”

Open Studio by Jared Bowen interviews MIT Media Lab’s Tod Machover about his new project Vocal Vibrations at Le Laboratoire.

March 2015
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AS THE SNOW FALLS, SOUNDS OF SPRING

As snow returned to the skies on Sunday afternoon, Pittman brought his ensemble, a volunteer orchestra known for its uncommonly thoughtful and adventurous programming, to the stage of Kresge Auditorium, where a large crowd gathered to be warmed by at … Continued

March 3, 2015
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THE WAY WE REMEMBER CHILDHOOD HOMES

A new exhibition at MIT, “Drawing Apart,” deals with the fragmented way distant yet familiar places live on in our imaginations.

March 3, 2015
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COMPUTING THE PAST AT MIT

Boston Camerata’s residence at MIT is part of the MIT Sounding series, curated by Evan Ziporyn, a larger collaboration with Professor Michael Cuthbert at MIT.

March 4, 2015
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INDEPENDENT OR BUST: BRAVING MARCH BLIZZARDS WITH PAUL HA

Leigh Anne Miller walks through the Independent Art Fair with Paul Ha, director of MIT’s List Visual Arts Center.

March 6, 2015
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Young Guru Reflects on Jay Z, Jadakiss & Will Smith at MIT

Young Guru was a guest panelist at MIT last night courtesy of the Arts at MIT & Lyor Cohen’s newest venture “TapTape“.

March 7, 2015
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MIT ADVISOR PAVES WAY FOR STUDENTS’ TECH STARTUPS

Depict is among the startups Chase’s students have created. Co-founded by Kimberly Gordon and Shambhavi Kadam, this web and mobile platform lets art enthusiasts fill the blank spaces in their homes with artwork by the world’s leading digital artists.

March 8, 2015

HELEN FRANKENTHALER FOUNDATION GIFTS THE US PAVILION AT THE VENICE BIENNALE $200,000

“On behalf of the List, Joan Jonas, and everyone involved in this project, I extend our great appreciation to the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation for its incredible generosity and support,” said Mr. Ha in the same statement. “We’re very excited to … Continued

March 10, 2015

BERENICE ABBOTT: THE PHOTOGRAPHY TRAILBLAZER WHO HAD SUPERSIGHT

In 2012, Steidl published an exhaustive monograph, Berenice Abbott: Documenting Science, to accompany the exhibition of the same name at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Museum.

March 10, 2015

HELEN FRANKENTHALER FOUNDATION PLEDGES $200,000 TOWARDS JOAN JONAS’S VENICE BIENNALE PRESENTATION

The MIT List Visual Arts Center has announced that the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation has pledged a gift of $200,000 in support of Joan Jonas’s presentation for the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale this year. This gift raises the List’s … Continued

March 10, 2015
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HELEN FRANKENTHALER FOUNDATION IS LEAD FOUNDATION DONOR FOR US PAVILION AT VENICE BIENNALE

Elizabeth Smith, the executive director of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, called the foundation’s donation “a particularly meaningful gift for us” in a statement, citing Frankenthaler’s inclusion in the US pavilion, along with Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, and Jules Olitski at … Continued

March 10, 2015
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HELEN FRANKENTHALER FOUNDATION GIVES $200,000 FOR JOAN JONAS’S US PAVILION PROJECT

The gift will support Joan Jonas’s presentation for the US Pavilion at the Fifty-sixth Venice Biennale, “They Come to Us Without a Word.”

March 10, 2015
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List Visual Arts Center receives $200,000 gift

The MIT List Visual Arts Center has received a gift of $200,000 from the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation in support of Joan Jonas’s presentation for the US Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale.

March 11, 2015
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MIT’S LIST RECEIVES $200,000 GIFT

The MIT List Visual Arts Center has received a gift of $200,000 from the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation in support of Joan Jonas’s presentation for the US Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale.  

March 11, 2015
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Concert Review: Of All the Flowers: Songs of the Middle Ages

The concert reminded me that you don’t have to understand what a person is saying (or in this case, singing) to know that it is beautiful. In fact, there is something almost spiritual about hearing something graceful and elegant that … Continued

March 12, 2015
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Scent of 100 Women: Artist Anicka Yi on Her New Viral Feminism Campaign at the Kitchen

For Anicka Yi, the studio is a giant—and often pungent—petri dish. As an official visiting artist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yi has been collaborating with synthetic biologists on projects that extend her futuristic sculptures into the realms of science … Continued

March 13, 2015
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Paul Ha Raises the Cultural Profile at M.I.T.

“Paul has been on mission getting students and faculty over to the List and building up its reputation,” said Philip S. Khoury, associate provost in charge of the arts at M.I.T.

March 16, 2015
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The Sights (and Smells) of Anicka Yi’s Bacteria Art Show

Reducing women to bacteria samples initially seems odd, as does the choice to use this live material as the fabric of a microcosmic female network. However, as Yi’s collaborator on the piece, MIT synthetic biologist and bacteria expert Tal Danino, clarified in a … Continued

March 17, 2015
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What Bacteria And Smell Have To Do With Feminism Today

Korean-born, American-based Yi is currently in residence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she’s been working with synthetic biologists in the hopes of creating a superbacterium.

March 20, 2015

9 Art Events To Attend In New York City This Week

Tomas Saraceno, who holds an ongoing residency at MIT, has exhibited work alongside that of artists like Andy Warhol; this show, however, is dedicated to his work alone.

March 24, 2015
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35 must-see spring and summer arts events in New England

The List will present an exhibition in Cambridge that features seven of Jonas’s seminal film and video works, surveying the breadth of her career.

March 27, 2015
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At MIT, seeing is learning as well as believing

The medium of photography as intersection of art and technology is on display at the MIT Museum (a fitting location) in “Images of Discovery: Communicating Science Through Photography.”

March 27, 2015
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MIT Museum Presents Images of Discovery, an Interactive Photography Exhibit

Photographers, image makers, and innovators Felice Frankel, Harold “Doc” Edgerton, and Berenice Abbott are featured in this new exhibition at the MIT Museum.

March 29, 2015
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Science and Art Shape the Future in Boston

Alberta Chu discusses the exciting and growing relationship between science and art in Boston and Cambridge; from Kendall Square, MIT, Harvard University’s Wyss Institute, and the Museum of Science, science and art intertwine like never before.

April 2015
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Enter the Cosmic Spiderweb Sculptures of Tomás Saraceno

To commemorate the new exhibit, Hybrid Solitary … Semi-Social Quintet … on Cosmic Webs …, which features a galaxy of spiderweb sound installations and geometric hanging sculptures, last week the artist discussed his work with Leila W. Kinney, executive director … Continued

April 3, 2015
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Scent of a Woman

In the months leading up to the show, Yi, currently a visiting artist at M.I.T.’s Center for Art, Science, and Technology, invited a hundred women she knows professionally—artists, writers, art historians, curators, dealers—to provide her with samples, collected with cotton … Continued

April 3, 2015
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Joan Jonas: All at Once

For over half a century, the artist’s arresting, inventive and immersive performances and videos have conjured strange mythological landscapes that upend a viewer’s sense of time. Now, as she reaches the height of her creative powers, the art world is … Continued

April 5, 2015
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What’s that Smell in the Kitchen? Art’s Olfactory Turn

Anicka Yi had wanted to chart female networks and the public’s fear of them for some time, but the idea of creating a powerful collective bacteria came to her when she started an artist residency at MIT last year.

April 8, 2015
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Week ahead: Music, theater, arts, and more

A look at the week ahead at MIT, featuring the Aardvark Orchestra, Mariah Steele and Quicksilver Dance, and the work of Joan Jonas.

April 8, 2015
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Joan Jonas Gets Her Moment

The septuagenarian artist, who will be representing the United States at next month’s Venice Biennale, has been at the vanguard of video and performance art since the 1970s.

April 8, 2015
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MIT offers succinct, fascinating overview of Jonas video art

Joan Jonas, the 78-year-old performance and video artist who has been selected to represent the United States at this year’s Venice Biennale, is a kind of outsider artist, in the sense that she is essentially self-taught.

April 9, 2015
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When Jupiter Aligns with Beethoven

Late of Boston, and now Illinois-based, the Jupiter Quartet gave the last installment in its complete set of Beethoven quartets Friday evening at Kresge.

April 13, 2015
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See Art Now: 50 New York Art Galleries to Visit This Weekend

Spiders helped create artist-in-residence Tomás Saraceno’s work featured at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery.

April 16, 2015
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Joan Jonas Readies Her Exhibit at Venice Biennale

MIT Professor Emerita and multimedia artist Joan Jonas, who will represent the U.S. at this year’s Venice Biennale, is preparing her exhibit.

April 16, 2015
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Killer Mike to Give Race Relations Lecture at MIT

This Friday, Killer Mike will speak as part of MIT’s “Hip-Hop Speaker Series” for a talk called “Race Relations in the U.S.”

April 19, 2015
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Killer Mike Will Give “Race Relations” Lecture At MIT

We can’t think of a better emcee to give a lecture on race relations than Killer Mike. With racial tensions bowling over in America, Killer Mike of Run The Jewels has been an advocate for improving race relations and bringing awareness to … Continued

April 20, 2015
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Killer Mike to Speak About Race Relations at MIT

Killer Mike, one half of hip-hop duo Run the Jewels, is slated to speak at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology about the state of race relations in America as well as how technology affects the issue and conversation.

April 21, 2015
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From the President: MIT Artist on a Global Stage

This spring, MIT is being recognized in a different realm, in a different European city: at the 56th Venice Biennale, the most prestigious contemporary art event in the world, Joan Jonas, professor emerita in MIT’s program in Art, Culture, and … Continued

April 21, 2015
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A joyful tribute to minimalist pioneer Terry Riley

At MIT, a welcome and ambitious new series called Sounding, curated by composer Evan Ziporyn, has bookended its inaugural season with celebrations of two icons of American experimental music, beginning with a program devoted to Alvin Lucier and culminating on … Continued

April 21, 2015
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Foundation gives $1.5m to MIT’s CAST

The MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) is getting another $1.5 million from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

April 22, 2015
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MIT’s Center for Art, Science, and Technology Gets $1.5 Million

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has given MIT’s Center for Art, Science, and Technology $1.5 million, bringing its total support for the center to $3 million since 2012.

April 22, 2015
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MIT’S CENTER FOR ART, SCIENCE, & TECHNOLOGY RECEIVES $1.5 M. GIFT FROM MELLON FOUNDATION

MIT’s Center for Art, Science, & Technology (CAST) has been given $1.5 million from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the purpose of supporting the center’s “multidisciplinary creative experimentation and integration of the arts across all areas of MIT.”

April 22, 2015
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Killer Mike to deliver killer lecture at MIT

Killer Mike views rap as social activism, and never shies away from sharing his opinions on race and abuses of power.

April 22, 2015
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MIT ensembles tackle innovative works on CD, onstage

Today, along with Harris, the music faculty includes Ziporyn, who leads the MIT Balinese-music ensemble Gamelan Galak Tika as well as directing the school’s Center for Art, Science, and Technology. Composer, bandleader, and trumpeter Mark Harvey teaches jazz history, improvisation, … Continued

April 23, 2015
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Self-Assembling Table Doesn’t Need Ikea’s Stupid Wrench

In its most recent project, MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab joined Italian design studio Wood-Skin to create the Programmable Table, which transitions from flat to fully built with a gentle tug.

April 23, 2015
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Killer Mike talks race and politics at MIT

At MIT’s Hip Hop Speaker Series, Killer Mike once again shows he’s the most astute artist around.

April 26, 2015
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Killer Mike Discusses Race and Politics at MIT

This weekend, in addition to attending the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Killer Mike gave a lecture on race and politics at MIT.

April 26, 2015
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Killer Mike’s MIT Talk on Race

This past Friday, MIT continued a recent series of rappers speaking to their experience in the industry and the state of race relations in America with some powerful words from “Killer” Mike Render, half of the Run the Jewels rap … Continued

April 27, 2015
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Killer Mike, Lupe Fiasco, and the Dancing Body of the State

On Friday, Killer Mike of Run the Jewels faced a packed room. There were journalists, students, educators, locals. You can read about the event on Complex or Billboard. Below are the bits I scribbled down.  

April 27, 2015
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Run the Jewels’ Killer Mike Addresses Race Relations at MIT

Twenty-four hours before he attended the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Killer Mike, one-half of the hip hop duo Run the Jewels, addressed an intimate group of students at MIT.

April 27, 2015
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MIT dedicates monument to Sean Collier

The curving, star-shaped memorial, which sits near what’s known as North Court at the intersection of Vassar and Main streets, was formally dedicated Wednesday during a somber ceremony that drew hundreds.  

April 29, 2015
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Brooklyn Rider Blurs Classical Boundaries On ‘Almanac’

“Just after New Years, I heard about a free concert at MIT that I couldn’t resist…” Fresh Air classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz discusses Brooklyn Rider’s “Almanac.”

April 29, 2015
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MIT Dedicates Memorial to Officer Killed by Marathon Bombers

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has dedicated a permanent memorial in honor of campus police Officer Sean Collier, who was slain by the Boston Marathon bombers.

April 29, 2015
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HÖWELER+YOON COMBINE CUTTING-EDGE TECH AND AGE-OLD CRAFT TO COMPLETE THE SEAN COLLIER MEMORIAL AT MIT

In honor of the slain MIT patrol officer, the university commissioned Boston-based Höweler+Yoon Architecture to design the Sean Collier Memorial—a somber, grey stone structure that marks the site of the tragedy. The heaviness of the unreinforced, fully compressive masonry structure is meant to … Continued

April 30, 2015
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Memorial unveiled in honor of Collier

The dedication of a permanent memorial to Officer Sean A. Collier was held on April 29 in a ceremony that emphasized the strength of both Collier and the MIT community.

April 30, 2015
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Young Guru Is the Most Influential Man in Hip-Hop You’ve Never Heard Of

Hip-hop’s most trusted sound engineer—he’s worked with Jay-Z for the past 16 years—is lending his talents to Silicon Valley and the next generation of sound innovators.

April 30, 2015
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Jane Farver, Former MIT List Head and Queens Museum Curator, Has Died in Venice

“Jane was the kind of invaluable curator and quintessential administrator that always put the artist first—in her exhibitions, writings, and teaching,” Brooke Davis Anderson, executive director of Prospect New Orleans, said in an email. “Jane was a mentor to many … Continued

April 30, 2015
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Jane Farver (1948–2015)

Farver was head of the MIT List Visual Arts Center from 1999 to 2011 where she organized solo exhibitions and projects by such artists as Mel Chin, Michael Joo, Paul Pfeiffer, Runa Islam, and Tavares Strachan.

May 1, 2015
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Venice Biennale: Queens Museum Curator Jane Farver Has Died

Jane Farver, curator and museum administrator, has died in Venice, where she was working with Joan Jonas on her presentation for the American Pavilion of the Venice Biennale.

May 1, 2015
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In the Studio: Joan Jonas and Jason Moran

“…MIT has this old Bösendorfer, an Austrian piano, a concert grand, an enormous instrument that really went untouched unless a student passed by and played it under the stairs. Suddenly, I thought, Oh wow, here’s this instrument that has extra … Continued

May 1, 2015
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Missing Jane Farver

“Among her lasting contributions will be the many important exhibitions that she curated or otherwise helped bring to fruition, including the presentation of Fred Wilson’s work at the 2003 Venice Biennale, her artistic direction of the 2011 Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale, … Continued

May 4, 2015
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Booting Up: Creative facility carves up bigger space

Among only a handful of so-called makerspaces in the region, Danger Awesome was co-founded by Cambridge City Councilor Nadeem 
Mazen and fellow Massachusetts Institute of Technology alum Ali Mohammad.

May 4, 2015
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What Does Mellon See In MIT’s Center for Art, Science and Technology?

“Since its inception in 2012, CAST has provided grants for more than 20 artist residencies and collaborative projects with MIT faculty and students, 12 cross-disciplinary courses and workshops, two concert series, and numerous multimedia projects, lectures, and symposia. This is no … Continued

May 7, 2015
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A LOOK AROUND THE VENICE BIENNALE: DAY 3, PART 1

On day three of the Venice Biennale preview, many visitors began to make their way out of the main exhibition and into the surrounding pavilions and events. Below, a mix of Joan Jonas, Cheetos at the Spanish pavilion, and more … Continued

May 7, 2015
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Bawdy Sculpture, Mobile Trees Lure Billionaires to Venice Show

Joan Jonas at the U.S. pavilion offered an installation that combined prints, found objects like wood and video projections with children.

May 7, 2015
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Joan Jonas (and Her White Poodle, Ozu) Represent America in Venice

Jonas has been in Venice for the last six weeks installing the pavilion for her work, a medley of mediums that includes but isn’t limited to video, audio, hand-blown deckled mirrors, found objects such as masks and sand dollars, paintings, … Continued

May 7, 2015
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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: Joan Jonas at the Venice Biennale

The pavilion is co-curated by Paul C. Ha, Director of the MIT List Visual Arts Center. It’s the third time in the past 15 years the Massachusetts museum has been chosen to organize America’s representation in the Biennale.  

May 7, 2015
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Venice Biennale 2015: Joan Jonas Evokes Fragility of Nature at US Pavilion

Co-curated by Paul C. Ha, Director of the MIT List Visual Arts Center and Ute Meta Bauer, Director of the NUT Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, Nanyang Technological University…‘They Come to Us Without a Word’ emerges from Jonas’s 2010 work … Continued

May 7, 2015
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At Joan Jonas’s Venice Biennale Pavilion, Something Wiccan This Way Comes

A surpassingly spooky “magick” runs through the Venice Biennale’s neoclassical American Pavilion this year, courtesy of the venerated performance and multimedia pioneer Joan Jonas.

May 7, 2015
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A Brief Guide to Joan Jonas, the U.S. Venice Biennale Representative

At 78, Jonas has had a long career making softly surreal yet deeply meaningful videos and performances — often both at once.

May 7, 2015
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Cultural Clicks: Joan Jonas in Venice, Roger Waters’s Tirade, and Mother’s Day Theatre Picks

The fifty-sixth Venice Biennale doesn’t officially open until Saturday morning, but the line to see Joan Jonas’s installation at the U.S. Pavilion was already long by midweek.

May 7, 2015
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Venice, Your Roots Are Showing

Outside the United States pavilion, represented by the performance and video artist Joan Jonas, a formation of limbs has been bound together into a tree-like form unto itself — a monument to the ritualistic work inside the pavilion, “They Come … Continued

May 7, 2015
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A Look Inside the 2015 Venice Biennale

A view of “They Come to Us without a Word,” an installation by Joan Jonas, representing the United States.

May 7, 2015
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Review: Joan Jonas’s Venice Biennale Pavilion Is a Triumph

“They Come to Us Without a Word,” her multimedia installation piece, is one of the best solo shows to represent the United States at the biennale in over a decade — an effortless combination of maturity and freshness.

May 8, 2015
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Venice Biennale represents rebalancing in the art world

A Nigerian art critic and museum director is the first African to curate the Biennale contemporary art fair that opens Saturday for its seven-month run, while female artists are representing more countries than ever in national pavilions – trends seen … Continued

May 9, 2015
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Questionnaire: Joan Jonas

Frieze Magazine interviews Joan Jonas following her exhibition at the 2015 Venice Biennale.

May 10, 2015
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Venice Biennale Awards Announced

The envelopes have been opened and the lions held happily aloft.

May 10, 2015
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Höweler + Yoon Unveil a Striking Memorial on MIT Campus

J. Meejin Yoon, working with her colleagues and students at MIT, has designed a monument to Officer Sean Collier, a victim of the Boston marathon bombers, in massive granite blocks with sweeping curves.

May 19, 2015
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Syncopasian Advances in WGBH Singing Competition

Syncopasian, a co-ed a cappella group at MIT, advanced to the final round of the new WGBH singing competition Sing That Thing! Syncopasian competed against high school, college and adult singing groups to make it to the finals, where they … Continued

May 22, 2015
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The Making of MIT’s Collier Memorial

J. Meejin Yoon, head of MIT’s architecture department, commemorates fallen campus police officer Sean Collier with vaults of solid granite.

May 22, 2015
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Eva Kot’átková examines balance of imagination, socialization

Czech artist Eva Kot’átková’s work, now up at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, embodies socialization’s traps and cages.

June 01, 2015
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Notes on Vamp: Johanna Fateman on Joan Jonas’s “Organic Honey’s Visual Telepathy.”

Jonas’s groundbreaking 1972 video Organic Honey’s Visual Telepathy—an autonomous work related to a performance of the same name, also from that year—begins with the artist’s transformation into the electronic seductress.

Summer 2015
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Joan Jonas At MIT

Joan Jonas is the pioneering artist representing the U.S. at the Venice Biennale, and she’s got a show at MIT.

June 01, 2015
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Double Takes: Pamela M. Lee on the Art of Joan Jonas

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.

Summer 2015
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Photographer has front-row seat for big scientific discoveries

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.

June 9, 2015
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Best of the Day: MIT Glass Band

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.

June 12, 2015
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Joan Jonas’s Persistent Forms of Feminist Expression

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — It is a dark room that seems like nothing much — a cave, an aside to the larger exhibition spaces at MIT’s List Center — until you immerse yourself in it for any length of time.

June 18, 2015
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Charles Correa, Architect Who Fused India’s History With Modernism, Dies at 84

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

June 21, 2015
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Obama women, MIT’s Joan Jonas meet up in Venice

Joan Jonas, the professor emerita at MIT who’s representing the United States at the Venice Biennale, was visited Saturday by first lady Michelle Obama, her daughters, Sasha and Malia, and her mother, Marian Robinson.

June 23, 2015
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Growing Fractal Jewelry in a Digital Garden

With nature as their guide, design studio Nervous System, a.k.a. Jessica Rosenkrantz and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg, has just launched a line of jewelry called Floraform that grows with the same differential growth you see in kale, iris flowers, jellyfish legs, and … Continued

June 23, 2015
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Vanessa Williams to Perform At We Are Boston Gala

Mayor Marty Walsh’s Office of New Bostonians has something special planned for its upcoming gala.

July 03, 2015
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Monday’s Business Agenda

MIT is hosting an exhibition that highlights the sustainability development work of women policy makers and social entrepreneurs in Malaysia.

July 03, 2015
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Tanglewood Opens With All-American Program

LENOX — Ever hear Virgil Thomson’s musical portrait of Fiorello La Guardia? Or how about Jerome Kern’s portrait of Mark Twain? These were sibling works of Aaron Copland’s “Lincoln Portrait,” all three commissioned in the early 1940s to spotlight great national … Continued

July 04, 2015

ANICKA YI: 6,070,430K of Digital Spit

Like much of Anicka Yi’s work, the artist’s current solo exhibition at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, “6,070,430K of Digital Spit,” manages both physical restraint and sensory overload.

July 13, 2015
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Meet Two of MIT’s New Institute Professors

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

July 14, 2015
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Kacey Musgraves And 12 Other Bands To See At The Free Outside The Box Fest

The gamelan ensemble from Massachusetts Institute of Technology infuses traditional Balinese gamelan music with experimental and modern classical sounds.

July 15, 2015

The Dallas Opera’s ‘Death and the Powers’ is stunning on Blu-ray

This is easily the most stunningly realized video production I’ve seen anywhere, with amazing clarity and resolution. You can see every flyaway hair, every drop of perspiration. For this we can thank teams from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where … Continued

July 17, 2015
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What To Listen For At Tanglewood’s Festival Of Contemporary Music

Any contemporary music festival is inevitably going to be a crapshoot. Even with living composers one admires, you never know how the new piece is going to work out.  

July 18, 2015
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MIT Named World’s Top University for Architecture

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the world’s best university for architecture, according to new global rankings.

July 23, 2015
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The Greenway Announces Lawrence Weiner as Artist for Next Dewey Square Mural

The Greenway is commissioning the new mural, to be installed in September, in partnership with the MIT List Visual Arts Center.

August 03, 2015

Pamela Z Boldly Confronts the Nature of Memory With Stunning Results

Last night at the Royce Gallery, Pamela Z gave the last of three performances of a workshop study for Memory Trace.

August 03, 2015

How I Got That Grant: Keith Ellenbogen’s High-Speed Photography Adventure at M.I.T.

Keith Ellenbogen, who specializes in dramatic, colorful underwater images of marine life, recently won a visiting artist-in-residence fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Art, Science & Technology.

August 04, 2015

List Projects

Lina Viste Grønli’s exhibition at MIT List Visual Arts transform ordinary pieces of furniture into the visual form of an E, the most common one in the English language.

August 07, 2015
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What Goes Around, Comes Around

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.

August 22, 2015
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This Week in Tech: MIT Makes a Multi-Material 3D Printer

Additive manufacturing is expensive, time-consuming, and offers limited material options. That could change with the announcement earlier this week by researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) of a novel 3D printer than can simultaneously extrude 10 … Continued

August 28, 2015
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MIT’s Neri Oxman on the True Beauty of 3D Printed Glass

Last week, the additive-manufacturing community and design aficionados everywhere excitedly welcomed glass to the growing list of 3D printing media.

August 28, 2015
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TAUBA AUERBACH: 40 UNDER 40 USA

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.

September 2, 2015
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At Home, Joan Jonas Surrounds Herself With Animals

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

September 8, 2015
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At MIT first US show for German photographer Ulrich Wüst

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

September 9, 2015
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David Adjaye Wins $100,000 Eugene McDermott Award

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.

September 9, 2015
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Destination Unknown

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.

September 9, 2015
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David Adjaye Awarded the 2016 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT

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

September 9, 2015
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2016 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT Goes to David Adjaye

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

September 9, 2015

David Adjaye Awarded 2016 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is pleased to announce that architect David Adjaye OBE is the recipient of the 2016 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT. The $100K prize awarded at a gala in his honor also includes … Continued

September 10, 2015

Architect David Adjaye Wins $100K 2016 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts and Residency

The Ghanaian-British architect David Adjaye is the recepient of the 2016 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts presented by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

September 10, 2015
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Architect David Adjaye receives prestigious MIT award

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

September 10, 2015
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David Adjaye Wins $100,000 Eugene McDermott Award and Residency at MIT

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).

September 10, 2015
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David Adjaye named as recipient of 2016 McDermott Award at MIT

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.

September 10, 2015
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MORNING LINKS: DAVID ADJAYE EDITION

David Adjaye was announced yesterday as the winner of this year’s $100,000 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts. He’ll now do a residency at MIT.

September 10, 2015

Pride of Britain: David Adjaye to Receive the 2016 Award in the Arts at MIT

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced yesterday that British architect David Adjaye is to be the latest recipient of the prestigious Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT.

September 10, 2015

David Adjaye Receives 2016 Eugene McDermott Award In The Arts At MIT

Architect David Adjaye OBE is the recipient of the 2016 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT. The $100K cash prize, to be awarded at a gala in his honor, also includes an artist residency at MIT in spring … Continued

September 10, 2015

David Adjaye Wins MIT’s 2016 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has selected architect and designer David Adjaye of Adjaye Associates as the recipient of the 2016 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts, which “celebrates individuals whose artistic trajectory reveals that they will achieve the … Continued

September 10, 2015
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STRANDBEEST: THE DREAM MACHINES OF THEO JANSEN

The Dutch artist’s famed kinetic sculptures appear alongside sketches, photographs, and demonstrations of the creatures’ movements.

September 12, 2015
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NEW MUSIC

MIT Sounding opens with cellist Maya Beiser rethinking canonical rock tunes.

September 12, 2015
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Nathanael Greene Herreshoff, the Bill Belichick of Yacht Design

To learn about Nathanael Greene Herreshoff is to want to know what made him great. Herreshoff, a member of the second entering class at MIT and a son of Bristol, R.I., is recognized as the most influential American yacht builder … Continued

September 15, 2015
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Dewey Square mural’s meaning is a matter of choice

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

September 21, 2015
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The Greenway mural is getting a colorful revamp

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.

September 21, 2015
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MIT Scientist and “4D Printing” Pioneer Skylar Tibbits Joins Global Plastics Summit Program as Innovation Keynote Speaker

SPI: The Plastics Industry Trade Association and IHS Chemical, the leading global source of critical information and insight, announced that Skylar Tibbits, a research scientist in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Architecture and director of MIT’s Self-Assembly … Continued

September 24, 2015
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A Hands-On Guide to ArtWeek Boston

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.

September 24, 2015
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How To ‘Uncover’ Classic Rock With The Cello

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.

September 24, 2015

Public and East Germany in Photographs, by Ulrich Wust

In the 1970s, a young East German urban planner, Ulrich Wüst, began documenting the expansion of prefabricated housing and its dehumanizing effects.

September 25, 2015
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Musicians revealed in ‘Uncovered’

Beiser sounds like she’s reaching deep into these songs to find personal expression within their boundaries, as would a player of classical repertory.

September 26, 2015
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Memory and Mechanism

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.

September 29, 2015
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Maya Beiser reimagines classic rock with her cello

Last Friday, I made my way to the front row of Kresge Auditorium to witness Maya Beiser’s Uncovered concert.

October 1, 2015

55. Michael Render (aka Killer Mike)

As part of the national debate over race relations, Render has appeared on CNN and HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, and has guest-lectured at MIT—speaking out on #BlackLivesMatter, media stereotypes against African American males, and police brutality.

October 1, 2015
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3D printed rock installation built by robots at the chicago architecture biennial

Using innovative robotic technology developed over the past year, gramazio kohler research, ETH zurich, and the self-assembly lab at MIT have built an architectural installation from low-grade granular material constructed by robotic machines.

October 2, 2015
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Junot Diaz On Why It’s So Important To Read Authors Who Don’t Look Like You

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz (The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao) has a very simple way of helping young students understand the complexities of the world.

October 2, 2015
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Architecture’s Fine Line Between Stealing and Inspiration

IN 2004, A recent graduate of Yale’s Master of Architecture sued David Childs, a high-profile architect and partner at Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill.

October 2, 2015

47th Annual Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award Winners Announced

The Nicolas Slonimsky Award for Outstanding Musical Biography in the concert music field honors Ellen T. Harris for her book George Frideric Handel: A Life with Friends, published by Norton.

October 5, 2015

Artist invents gigantic, “life-like” beach creatures

The beests were there for a talk Jansen gave at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Their ability to move smoothly, almost effortlessly, captured the imaginations of engineers and physicists there.

October 6, 2015
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Get Lectured: MIT, Fall ’15

Archinect’s Get Lectured is ready for another school year. Get Lectured is an ongoing series where we feature a school’s lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term.

October 9, 2015
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A camera that can see through walls

Humans cannot see through walls. Even out in the open, they can’t see too far on a foggy day.

October 9, 2015
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BMOP, Machover honored by Musical America

Musical America, the internationally recognized performing arts directory and website founded as a weekly newspaper in 1898 and based in New York City, has announced its 2016 artists of the year, including two recipients of significant local interest: Tod Machover, … Continued

October 15, 2015

‘Seeking the Infinite’: New film tells the story of Stanislaw Skrowaczewski

“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.”

October 15, 2015

Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks wins $300,000 Gish Prize

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

October 16, 2015

National Sawdust to Premiere Keeril Makan and Jay Scheib’s PERSONA

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.

October 16, 2015
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CD of the Week

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

October 19, 2015
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Radius premieres Ruehr’s ‘Quetzal Garden’

CAMBRIDGE — You’ll occasionally hear from musicians that certain seemingly complex works aren’t as hard as they sound to a listener.

October 23, 2015
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BETH MORRISON PROJECTS: “PERSONA”

The music of Keeril Makan, a professor at M.I.T., is empowered by modern technology but haunted by a spirit of immemorial darkness.

October 23, 2015
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‘Persona,’ ‘Refuse the Hour’ and ‘Heretical Angel’ Reviews

Three different interpretations of chamber opera, not one of which belongs in a conventional opera house, came to New York last week.

October 26, 2015
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Review: ‘Persona,’ an Opera Based on the Ingmar Bergman Film

The American composer Keeril Makan, far from being intimidated, was clearly inspired to take it on, judging from the effectiveness of his “Persona,” a chamber opera with a libretto by the director Jay Scheib, closely adapted from Bergman’s screenplay.

October 26,2015
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A photographer and a physicist team up

Ellenbogen, an underwater photographer, and Adams, a theoretical physicist at MIT, were on their way to Patagonia, where they were scheduled to teach a three-week class on marine photography and also shoot a breeding ground for elephant seals.

October 28, 2015
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Using dated technology, Rosa Barba evokes the sublime

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.

October 29, 2015
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MIT Establishes Visiting Artist Program With $1 Million Gift from Dasha Zhukova

Dasha Zhukova is a Russian American philanthropist, entrepreneur, and art collector as well as the founder of Garage Museum for Contemporary Art in Moscow.

October 30, 2015
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DASHA ZHUKOVA GIVES MIT $1 M. FOR ‘DISTINGUISHED VISITING ARTIST’ POSITION

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced today that Russian American philanthropist, collector, and Garage Museum founder Dasha Zhukova has donated $1 million for the purpose of creating a distinguished visiting artist position.

October 30, 2015
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Dasha Zhukova backs $1m artist residency at MIT

The Russian collector and philanthropist Dasha Zhukova is donating $1m to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to establish a “distinguished visiting artist” position.

October 30, 2015

Dasha Zhukova Gives $1M to MIT to Start an Artist Residency

Russian philanthropist and art collector Dasha Zhukova will give $1 million to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to endow a brand new visiting artist program at the MIT Center for Art, Science and Technology, it was announced today.

October 30, 2015

DASHA ZHUKOVA DONATES 1 MILLION DOLLARS TO MIT TO ESTABLISH A VISITING ARTIST PROGRAM

Open to artists, architects and designers, The Distinguished Visiting Artist Position will help select a talented individual, who will receive a one to two year appointment at the MIT.

October 31, 2015

Dasha Zhukova Gives MIT $1Million to Endow Artist Residency

The gift from Dasha Zhukova provides support to endow a vibrant, ongoing residency organized by the MIT Center for Art, Science and Technology (CAST) open to creators from art, architecture, or design.

November 3, 2015
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This art really gets inside your head

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.

November 5, 2015
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Detroit Symphony Tackles an Adventurous Premiere

The Detroit Achievement Academy students had created music using Hyperscore, the sound-visualization software developed by Mr. Machover’s group at M.I.T.

November 11, 2015

Joan Jonas: They Come to Us Without a Word, United States Pavilion, Venice Biennale

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.”

November 16, 2015

Composer Combines the Sounds of Detroit With Music to Produce a Sonic Portrait of the City

DETROIT – International composer, inventor and Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Tod Machover spent the past year contemplating the question: “What does Detroit sound like?”

November 20, 2015
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Composing the Sounds of Detroit into a Symphony

There is a difference, however, between creating music inspired by a city — but still wholly executed within the context of a symphony — and literally making music from urban sounds. It is this latter ambition that drives composer and MIT … Continued

November 24, 2015

Tod Machover and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Premiere New Motor City Piece: ‘Symphony in D’

Professor of music and media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tod Machover, recently premiered his soundscape composition, Symphony in D, with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

November 29, 2015
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Neri Oxman’s Bacteria-Infested Spacesuits Are Grown, Not Designed

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.

December 1, 2015
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Crowd-sourcing a Symphony for Detroit

Have you ever thought about how the city you live in could be represented in sound? Or even in music? The Detroit Symphony Orchestra and composer Tod Machover decided to ask the citizens of Detroit this very question.

December 1, 2015
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From Russia With Love: A Look at Dasha Zhukova’s Burgeoning Arts Philanthropy

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.

December 1, 2015

Tomás Saraceno: Aerocene

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.

December 4, 2015
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Another honor for MIT’s Joan Jonas

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.

December 08, 2015
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300-year-old voices in a stash of unopened letters

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.

December 08, 2015

The Top 15 Emerging Artists of 2015

It took more than market momentum or critical acclaim to have a breakout year in 2015.

December 16, 2015
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On walls and behind scenes, women moved art world

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

December 26, 2015
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Sebastian Smee’s picks

Honorable mention “Joan Jonas: They Come to Us Without a Word,” US Pavilion, Venice Biennale

December 26, 2015
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We Ask Some Art World Luminaries to Pick the Best & Worst of 2015

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

December 28, 2015
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Greater Boston Public Art: the Most Memorable of 2015

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.

December 31, 2015
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The Tech to Expect in Architecture in 2016

We asked 12 design and tech gurus to predict the advancements in AEC that you should see this year.

January 14, 2016
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Ann Hirsch is a fascinating new breed of artist

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.

January 14, 2016
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OLAFUR ELIASSON WILL RECEIVE A CRYSTAL AWARD IN DAVOS THIS WEEK

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.”

January 20, 2016
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Vik Muniz, HIGH MUSEUM OF ART ATLANTA

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

January 20, 2016

Adjaye makes shortlist for another major US job

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.

January 21, 2016
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Feminist Explorations of Our Online Wonderland

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.

February 16, 2016
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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

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
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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
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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
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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

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
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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
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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
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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

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

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
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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

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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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

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

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

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
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Michelle Grabner, Paul Ha, and Eric Shiner Appointed to Jury for ArtPrize’s $200,000 Grand Prize

The Grand Prize jury will be joined by five category award jurors to award half of the $500,000 in prizes at ArtPrize Eight this fall.

May 19, 2016
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‘The Iceman Cometh’ via Robots and an Artist Collective at MIT

If a machine could write dramas, what would they be? This is the idea that London-based artist collective Villa Design Group explores with The Tragedy Machine, their waggish, new exhibition at the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

May 25, 2016
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Tala Madani’s paintings provoke at MIT’s List Visual Arts Center

America’s great art museums tend to shy away from showing genuinely disturbing art.

May 26, 2016
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Tala Madani at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis

Painter Tala Madani’s show in St. Louis provided a concise primer on her work, featuring her hallmark subject: men, nude or almost so, perhaps Middle Eastern and probably middle-aged, in situations both abject and humorous.

May 27, 2016
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Want to play ‘Rock Band’ with its creator?

Crowdfunding campaigns often rely on perks to entice people to contribute. Usually, it’s stuff that’s not all terribly interesting – a signed copy of something or other, or worthless swag like a bumper sticker or ballcap.

June 01, 2016

NORMAN FOSTER PRESENTS DRONEPORT PROTOTYPE AT THE VENICE BIENNALE 2016

A full-scale prototype for a droneport designed by Foster+Partners built on site in the Arsenale in Venice, was unveiled at the 15th International Architecture Biennale on Thursday 26 May.

June 04, 2016

Neri Oxman Is Redesigning The Natural World

FROM 3-D PRINTING EXOSKELETONS TO CREATING BIODEGRADABLE ARCHITECTURE, THE MIT MEDIA LAB PROFESSOR IS PIONEERING NEW HYBRIDS OF ENGINEERING AND BIOLOGY.

June 07, 2016
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Enough With The Lawsuits: Berklee, MIT Lead Effort To Create Ownership Rights Database For Music Industry

Berklee College of Music and the MIT Media Lab are leading a new initiative they hope will one day solve complicated, expensive music industry issues involving licensing, distribution and ownership rights.

June 13, 2016
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Constructing a Narrative

David Adjaye tells us why The National Museum of African American History and Culture, opening in September, challenged him like never before.

August 1, 2016

MIT mushrooms pop up in São Paulo

The 32nd São Paulo Biennale, due to open on 10 September (until 10 December), will play host to an installation of objects created by an unusual “designer”: the vegetative fungus mycelium.

August 8, 2016
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Boston at the Biennale: An Interview with Commissioner Paul Ha

Since 1895, cultural institutions from around the world have gathered at the Venice Biennale to present the latest developments in their country’s visual arts, performance, and design.

August 9, 2016
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ArchitectChats: Episode 10 with MIT’s Skylar Tibbits on the Importance of Failure

The inventor of 4D printing and co-director of MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab discusses his research, the design technologies he’s most anticipating, and the role of failure in the pursuit of innovation.

August 11, 2016
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Artist Ethan Hayes-Chute solves ‘problems’ with wit

CAMBRIDGE — Humans excel at finding solutions to “problems” that don’t always justify the description. That’s to say, we inflate “predicaments” (the word suggests a certain awareness of fate) into problems and then invent brilliant solutions. Viagra, for instance.

August 18, 2016

Time stood still during Nik Bärtsch’s musical marathon in Abu Dhabi

When exposed to a continuous music installation for a period of several hours, your body starts to organically follow the flow of the music.

September 3, 2016
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PEDRO REYES NAMED INAUGURAL DASHA ZHUKOVA DISTINGUISHED VISITING ARTIST AT MIT

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced today that Mexico City–based artist Pedro Reyes will be the center’s first Dasha Zhukova Distinguished Visiting Artist.

September 14, 2016
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Pedro Reyes Named MIT’s Inaugural Dasha Zhukova Distinguished Visiting Artist

Massachusetts Institute of Technology has announced that Pedro Reyes will launch a new residency program as the institution’s inaugural Dasha Zhukova Distinguished Visiting Artist.

September 14, 2016
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‘Doomocracy’ Puts the Politics of Fear on Display in Brooklyn

The artist Pedro Reyes is a biting social critic whose pieces often hold out hope — in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary — that things will get better.

October 6, 2016
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At ‘Doomocracy,’ It’s Fright Night in Brooklyn

Halloween started early this year. I’d put the date at July 18, opening night of the 2016 Republican National Convention.

October 13, 2016
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Meeting ‘the Other’ Face to Face

Cambridge, Mass.- Sitting in a conference room at a hotel near the Massachusetts Institute of Technology here, I slip on large headphones and an Oculus Rift virtual reality headset and wriggle into the straps of a backpack, weighed down with … Continued

October 26, 2016

Hugo Boss Prize Winner Anicka Yi Is Forcing the Art World to Take Scents Seriously

On a cold, rainy New York morning after the Hugo Boss Prize party at the Guggenheim last week, the artist Anicka Yi was mulling over the events of the night before, and her thoughts immediately went to her people.

October 28, 2016
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The Enemy: Karim Ben Khelifa’s Virtual Reality Exhibition Examines The Motives of War

Karim Ben Khelifa is a photojournalist who has worked across the globe, documenting a multitude of wars and conflicts.

November 19, 2016
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A Dance For The Melting Icebergs

Last November, during the climate summit in Paris, the Icelandic installation artist Olafur Eliasson transported twelve icebergs from Greenland to the Place du Panthéon for a piece titled “Ice Watch.”

November 25, 2016
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Valedictory Schubert From Indispensable Pianist

David Deveau devotes his upcoming Kresge recital to the final two Schubert piano sonatas: the A Major (D.959) and in B-flat Major (D.960).

December 1, 2016
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Neri Oxman’s Lazarus death masks visualise the wearer’s last breath

Neri Oxman and the MIT Mediated Matter group have unveiled their latest collection of 3D-printed death masks, designed to contain the wearer’s last breath.

December 12, 2016

String theory

Experience is both a book about design and a design experience – with bits of string and a heat-sensitive cover. Review by John O’Reilly.

December 13, 2016
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Anna Kohler’s Performance Art

The Wooster Group veteran creates a portrait of a mature actress whose beauty lies in her restlessness, at Abrons Arts Center.

December 26, 2016

A Voyage Round The Cello

London cello festival is launched; a prodigy is presented with a precious instrument.

January 3, 2017
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Anicka Yi Is Inventing a New Kind of Conceptual Art

One afternoon in mid-December, the artist Anicka Yi traveled uptown to a Columbia University lab, where for the seventh time in as many weeks she had an appointment with a pair of biologists in preparation for an upcoming solo exhibition at the … Continued

February 14, 2017

Jacob Collier at MIT’s Kresge Auditorium

Acclaimed British multi-instrumentalist Jacob Collier rose to Internet fame with his split-screen YouTube videos, covering some classic songs in his own multi-faceted, original style.

February 14, 2017
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Staab Architekten Takes Design History Into Its (Able) Hands

A woman stands mournful, her gaze fixed to the ground. She holds an umbrella above her, though there seems to be no rain.

Feburary 15, 2017
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Outside In: Andrea Crespo on Empathy, Avatars, and a Show at MIT

Until recently, much of Andrea Crespo’s artwork has involved a pair of conjoined twins named Cynthia and Celinde.

February 17, 2017
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Before The Concert Begins, Please Turn On Your Cellphones

CAMBRIDGE — You may not know Eran Egozy’s name, but if you either were between the ages of 10 and 24 in the mid-2000s or had children in that ballpark, you may be familiar with one of the wildly successful … Continued

February 24, 2017

Pedro Reyes is the Artist Donald Trump Should Fear

If Donald Trump were to invent a contemporary artist to berate on Twitter (how’s that for fake news?), he might dream up in his fevered mind someone like Pedro Reyes.

February 28, 2017

PEDRO REYES EXPLORING THE FORMAL LANGUAGE OF SCULPTURE

Pedro Reyes has earned a reputation for being an artist-activist whose politically engaged works sometimes, but not always, are instilled with a degree of optimism.

March 2017
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At MIT, seeing art as a place you can return to

CAMBRIDGE — Every now and then you’ll hear a loud “Clop!” as you walk through Gwenneth Boelens’s show at the MIT List Visual Arts Center.

March 02, 2017
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MIT Professor Debuts Cutting-Edge Classical Take On David Bowie’s ‘Blackstar’

Classical music and rock can make for awkward bedfellows, usually resulting in bright, accessible instrumentals or sometimes the overwrought opus of some British rocker.

March 03, 2017

New MIT Center Introduces Bowie-Inspired Classical Music

“Cello Goddess” Maya Beiser has extended the range of her instrument, through multimedia productions that employ electronics and computer processing to achieve a symphony of new sounds

March 3, 2017
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Maya Beiser: Reinventing the Wheel By Redefining the Cello

Maya Beiser is a certified cello goddess not only because her Twitter handle is actually @CelloGoddess, but because she redefines every aspect of what it means to be a cellist in the contemporary context

March 3, 2017
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Bowie’s ‘Blackstar” Performed in Totality by an Orchestra at MIT

David Bowie’s “Blackstar” was from the very start an album fundamentally concerned with transformation.

March 04, 2017

Animal Behaviour: World of Webs

The famous warning never to work with animals or children seems not to have reached Tomás Saraceno.

March 16, 2017

Bat Out of Hell The Musical at Manchester Opera House

While it’s known as one of the most iconic rock albums of our time, Meat Loaf’s Bat out of Hell was originally written as a musical by king of the power ballad, Jim Steinman.

March 17, 2017

These 10 Artworks Tell the Story of Contemporary Art

In “The Big Picture: Contemporary Art in 10 Works by 10 Artists,” Matthew Israel, Artsy’s Curator at Large, examines 10 artworks that trace the development of contemporary art.

March 24, 2017
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In The Studio: Anicka Yi

When Anicka Yi began making art in her late thirties with no formal training, her entry point was unusual: a self-directed study of science.

April 01, 2017
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The architecture of MIT: 10 impressive buildings on the tech university’s campus

Dezeen is visiting the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the Being Material conference this week.

April 21, 2017

Tomás Saraceno collaborates with 7,000 spiders to make largest-ever exhibited web

Argentinian artist’s solo show in Buenos Aires also includes a sound piece played by an arachnid.

April 24, 2017
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“Biotech is the new digital” says MIT Media Lab founder

Biotechnology is going to “govern the next decade of thought” at research institutions like the MIT Media Lab, says its founder Nicholas Negroponte.

April 24, 2017
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NEXT LIST 2017 20 TECH VISIONARIES WHO ARE CREATING THE FUTURE

Microsoft will build computers even more sleek and beautiful than Apple’s.

April 25, 2017
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Fighting Cancer with Engineered Microbes

Bacteria are – like nearly every other life form – social beings, responding to their neighbors and surroundings in intricate ways.

April 26, 2017
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ROUNDUP: “Being Material” at MIT’s Center for Art, Science & Technology

“Being Material,” held on April 21st and 22nd, was a two-day symposium hosted by MIT’s Center for Art, Science & Technology.

April 27, 2017
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MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab’s Rapid Liquid Printing technology Can ‘Print Furniture In Minutes

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a revolutionary new form of 3D printing that can produce large objects such as chairs in a fraction of the time of regular printers.

April 28, 2017
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Views of South Africa, when diamonds aren’t forever

CAMBRIDGE — Kimberley was once the second largest city in South Africa, and for a few years in the 19th century its diamond mines may have produced more wealth per square inch than any place on the planet.

May 10, 2017
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An exhibition at the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Massachusetts examines the intimate effect and affect of objects through art

An Inventory of Shimmers: Objects of Intimacy in Contemporary Art, curated by Henriette Huldisch, opts out of a purely visual approach in favour of varied modes of perception to explore sometimes opposing levels of intimacy.

May 18, 2017
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Alvin Lucier Sits in a Room—and Speaks with Fellow Experimental Musician John Olson

Alvin Lucier is a composer and sound-theorist who has worked with experimental music since the early 1960s. His many works include the electronic sonification of brainwaves and I Am Sitting in a Room, an epochal piece from 1969 for which … Continued

May 31, 2017
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Getting up close and personal at MIT

I went to see “An Inventory of Shimmers: Objects of Intimacy in Contemporary Art” at the MIT List Visual Arts Center with what felt like illicit anticipation.

May 31, 2017
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Getting up close and personal at MIT

I went to see “An Inventory of Shimmers: Objects of Intimacy in Contemporary Art” at the MIT List Visual Arts Center with what felt like illicit anticipation.

May 31, 2017
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Technology & Bees with Kelly Heaton

​Kelly Heaton combines traditional art with electronics to explore the energy that animates natural and human-made forms.

June, 2017
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Longtime Director Of Rockport Chamber Music Festival Says Goodbye

It really all started with the smell of turpentine. David Deveau, artistic director of the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, which opens Friday evening at the Shalin Liu Performance Center, retires from that role this summer after 22 incredibly successful seasons.

June 01, 2017
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An Asymmetric Equation

Two recent conferences at MIT and the New Museum reveal the benefits, and pratfalls, of art and science collaborations

June 1, 2017
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The Convergence of Bits and Atoms

Twenty-two years ago Nicholas Negroponte, MIT Media Lab co-founder, predicted that “being digital” would lead to a future with fewer material constraints.

June 9, 2017
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Pictures At An Exhibition ‘An Inventory of Shimmers’ at MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Today’s show: “An Inventory of Shimmers: Objects of Intimacy in Contemporary Art” is on view at the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts through Sunday, July 16.

June 15, 2017
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Joan Jonas’s Mythopoetic Vision

In 1970, Joan Jonas, then in her mid-thirties, took a trip to Japan, where she first encountered Noh theatre.

May 29, 2017
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Israelis Come Face-To-Face With ‘The Enemy’

The project, called The Enemy, is showing as a part of the Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival until Saturday and is the brainchild of veteran war photographer Karim Ben Khelifa.

June 20, 2017
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Exploring the Intersection of Art and Technology

Art and technology don’t always go hand-in-hand. Historically, the art world has been decidedly reluctant to adopt technological advances as a means of creating and disseminating art.

June 22, 2017
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Summer Of Savings: MIT Museum’s ‘Idea Hub’

BOSTON (CBS) – The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is doing its part to keep kids engaged and enriched while school is out, avoiding the dreaded “summer slide.”

June 22, 2017
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MIT students create a mural that moves when viewed through a smartphone

You can count on students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to take something as simple as a painting and then give it an inventive twist.

June 27, 2017
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After winning $100,000 on ‘Project Runway,’ she’s ready to collaborate in Boston

Fashion designer and Massachusetts College of Art and Design alumna Erin Robertson is used to the question “When are you leaving Boston?” But the 30-year-old Utah native has no plans to relocate any time soon.

July 03, 2017
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Tomas Saraceno creates a ‘quasi-feasible utopia’ : Multidisciplinary Argentinian artist beckons viewers into a dialogue with the universe

GWANGJU – “I love the idea of flying in the air with your feet on the ground,” multidisciplinary Argentinian artist Tomas Saraceno said during an interview before the opening of his first Korean solo exhibition here in this southwestern city … Continued

July 24 ,2017
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A London Musical With Energy to Burn, and Two Without It

LONDON — When’s the last time it felt as if an entire theater were about to levitate?

July 28, 2017

The 15 Top Art Schools in the United States

The art world has become increasingly professionalized, which means a Master of Fine Arts degree is now often a necessary step on the road to gallery representation and critical acclaim.

August 29, 2017
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Jacob Collier isn’t the only wizard behind his one-man show

Jacob Collier calls from Chile, where he’s in the middle of a South American tour.

September 01, 2017
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Top Architecture Schools of 2018

The choice of where to go to architecture school is a big question—often a $50,000-a-year-or-more question. So what are the best schools for that kind of investment?

September 1, 2017
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MIT Opens Its First Performing Arts Building

Massachusetts Institute of Technology has announced the opening of its first building dedicated to the arts.

September 8, 2017
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Are Artists the New Interpreters of Scientific Innovation?

“… there’s been a resurgence of interest in the idea of inviting artists to observe, learn and work within mainstream government agencies and institutions, among entrepreneurs and scientists as well as among the artists themselves.”

September 12, 2017
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MIT Unveils its New Theater Space W97

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently unveiled its recently completed MIT theater and performing arts building (W97), which enters into full operation this fall.

September 18, 2017
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Thinking About Majoring In Theater? Think MIT!

When you think of MIT, you think of engineers, techies, and other left brain types.  But if that’s your view of the school, you may be missing the bigger picture.

September 19, 2017
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Portrait of an Artist: Ken Urban

Ken Urban, playwright of “A Guide for the Homesick,” to premiere this fall at the Huntington Theater in Boston, has returned to New England to work as a senior lecturer in the department of Music and Theater Arts at MIT.

September 19, 2017
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From a piano triumph to orchestral eloquence, three standout albums

Makan, a composer on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty, is best known for a series of stringent works that push, almost obsessively, the boundaries of the performer’s physical interaction with the instrument, sometimes tilting into pure noise.

September 21, 2017
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Photography show pays tribute to a master of light

Few photographers have so emphasized the reaction to light as György Kepes did.

September 28, 2017
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Head-to-Head With “The Enemy”, A Documentary In Augmented Reality

The project “Enemy” is born of “frustration”, is a war correspondent Karim Ben Khelifa. “The frustration of not being to the height of the journalism I wanted to do, that I had idealized.”

September 29, 2017
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The Rise of Science-Focused Artist Residencies—and How To Take Part

While a participant in the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers program in 2015, Shaun O’Boyle photographed a grounded iceberg in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica.

October 4, 2017
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Face-to-face with ‘The Enemy’

Walking by the MIT Museum is intriguing this fall — a quick peek through its Mass Ave windows shows patrons decked out in heavy goggles and backpacks meandering through a mostly empty space.

October 5, 2017
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Face-to-face with ‘The Enemy’

Walking by the MIT Museum is intriguing this fall — a quick peek through its Mass Ave windows shows patrons decked out in heavy goggles and backpacks meandering through a mostly empty space.

Oct. 5, 2017
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From these Gamelans, a ‘golden rain’ of sound

A concert paying tribute to the remarkable California composer Lou Harrison on his centenary will feature the wondrous instruments he built.

October 6, 2017
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The Enemy Featured on WGBH Greater Boston

“Most of us will never know what it feels like inside a war zone. The new exhibit at the MIT Museum is offering an emersion experience like few others.” (Segment begins at 18:40)

October 10, 2017
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Speaking with The Enemy: VR show at MIT brings people face-to-face with fighters

Visitors to war photojournalist Karim Ben Khelifa’s project experience the humanity in people on both sides of conflicts.

October 10, 2017
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Azraq refugees partner with designers to ‘invent solutions to their daily problems’

October 10, 2017
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Here Are The 2017 MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant Winners

Trevor Paglen, 43, artist and geographer living in Berlin: “Documenting the hidden operations of covert government projects and examining the ways that human rights are threatened in an era of mass surveillance.”

October 11, 2017
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The Enemy on WGBH TV Open Studio

At the MIT Museum, a new virtual reality exhibition conceived by photojournalist Karim Ben Khelifa takes participants face-to-face with opposing combatants in international conflict zones.

October 12, 2017
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The Enemy On WGBH Radio Morning Edition

“One of the most profound museum experiences of my life.”–WGBH Radio

October 12, 2017
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Bang a Gong, Get It On

Violinist Johnny Gandelsman of Brooklyn Rider and Silkroad Ensemble; new-music piano luminary Sarah Cahill; and Evan Ziporyn, virtuoso clarinetist and faculty director of the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology.

October 16, 2017

MIT’s Urbonas’ new book examines why we need public spaces

Much of what we hear about public space comes via routine transactional politics, when officials tell us whether or not we can afford, say, parks, schools, and libraries.

October 20, 2017
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Audra McDonald Awarded 2018 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has just announced that Tony, Grammy and Emmy Award-winning singer and actress Audra McDonald is the recipient of the 2018 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT.

October 26, 2017
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AUDRA MCDONALD RECEIVES MIT EUGENE MCDERMOTT AWARD

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has announced that Tony, Grammy and Emmy Award-winning singer and actress Audra McDonald is the recipient of the 2018 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT.

October 26, 2017
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Audra McDonald receives prestigious arts award from MIT

Audra McDonald, the winner of a record six Tony Awards, has been chosen as the 2018 recipient of the Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT.

October 26, 2017
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Audra McDonald Receives MIT’s 2018 Eugene McDermott Award

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has awarded the 2018 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts to Audra McDonald.

October 26, 2017
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Audra McDonald to Receive 2018 McDermott Award from MIT

Congratulations to Audra McDonald, who has been named the recipient of the 2018 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT.

October 27, 2017
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Audra McDonald Honored by MIT

Singer and actress Audra McDonald has another honor to add to her Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Awards.

October 27, 2017
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Audra McDonald Named Recipient of MIT’s 2018 Eugene McDermott Award

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October 27, 2017
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Audra McDonald Honored by MIT

Singer and actress Audra McDonald has another honor to add to her Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Awards.

October 28, 2017
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‘The Enemy’ Review: Facing Down Conflict

Can an immersive virtual-reality project engender empathy and end violence?

Nov. 4, 2017
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‘Eighty Trips Around the Sun: Music by and for Terry Riley’ by Sarah Cahill Review

Pianist Sarah Cahill offers a belated 80th birthday celebration for the composer that challenges conceptions about Minimalism.

November 7, 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
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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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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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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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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
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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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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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‘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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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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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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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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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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Confront “The Enemy” in this Virtual Reality Exhibition

A virtual experience at MIT explores urgent questions about the nature of war photography, photojournalism, and the purpose of photographs taken during a conflict.

December 13, 2017
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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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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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Virtual Enemy at the MIT Museum

Once I put on the goggles and strapped the eight-pound backpack around my waist, the museum and its staff disappeared.

January 8, 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 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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BOSTON SYMPHONY TRIALS A REAL-TIME APP FOR LIVE CONCERTS

The Boston Symphony Orchestra, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will offer ConcertCue, an innovative real-time program note app during the orchestra’s “Casual Fridays” program on Friday, February 9.

January 25, 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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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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‘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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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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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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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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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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Mouse on Mars at M.I.T.: A Symposium Becomes a Dance Party

Mouse on Mars, the brainy, playful, long-running, relentlessly inventive electronic-music duo from Berlin, had a different kind of rollout for its new album, “Dimensional People.”

March 12, 2018

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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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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Joan Jonas Endures With Her Strange and Entrancing Rituals

The American artist Joan Jonas stood before an enthusiastic audience in London late on Friday and re-enacted excerpts from some of her performances.

March 21, 2018
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MIT Premieres Pedro Reyes’ Puppet Play with Noam Chomsky, Karl Marx, Ayn Rand, Elon Musk, Tiny Trump

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is pleased to announce the world premiere of Manufacturing Mischief, a new satirical play by Pedro Reyes that features puppet characters based on Noam Chomsky, Karl Marx, Ayn Rand, Elon Musk and “Tiny Trump.”

March 21, 2018
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At MIT, Mouse on Mars immerses listeners in ‘surround sound on steroids’

Whether through his work as one half of German electronic music duo Mouse on Mars or through his 2016-17 tenure as an MIT guest lecturer, Jan St. Werner has spent the better part of the past 25 years exploring the … Continued

March 22, 2018
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‘Islandborn’ taps the immigrant imagination

author junot díaz discusses debut children’s book

March 28, 2018
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With György Kepes, photographs as experiments

From the start, photography has been binary.

March 28, 2018
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Mummers and sizzling Philly cheesesteaks get their Philadelphia Orchestra moment

Suffering for art took on frigid new meaning for composer Tod Machover while creating his new symphony for the Philadelphia Orchestra.

March 29, 2018
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Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the Young Artist Who Grew Up to Invent Neuroscience

Many creative scientists have artistic inclinations. The drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the father of neuroscience, are a beautiful example.

March 30, 2018
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Free Things to Do in Boston, April 2018

Performing the Present: Audra McDonald and Oskar Eustis in Conversation

March 30, 2018

Audra McDonald honored with artist residency at MIT

With her incandescent soprano, Audra McDonald is usually the one doing the dazzling. But the Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award-winning singer and actress says it was she who was awestruck by the talent she encountered on recent visits to the … Continued

April 5, 2018
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How a Philly Cheesesteak Goes From the Grill to Carnegie Hall

Taking it all in with a digital recorder and high-end binaural microphones one day in February was the composer Tod Machover, who writes symphonies about cities around the world and brings some of their most characteristic sounds into the concert … Continued

April 9, 2018
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Noam Chomsky, Elon Musk and Ayn Rand Walk Into a Puppet Show

“Manufacturing Mischief,” which will have its premiere run on April 26 and 27 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, puts a mini-Chomsky onstage alongside Elon Musk, Ayn Rand and Karl Marx.

April 16, 2018
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Audra McDonald appears at MIT discussion, gala

As part of Audra McDonald’s duties as winner of the 2018 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT, the Broadway great — can you believe she’s won six Tony Awards? — sat down with Oskar Eustis at MIT’s Huntington Hall over the weekend.

April 16, 2018

Audra McDonald. Symphony Hall, Boston. April 13, 2018

The concert tipped off something of a special weekend for McDonald, who followed it on Saturday night by being honored with this year’s 2018 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

April 17, 2018
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Want To See Chomsky, Rand, Marx And Musk Argue About Technology? Now You Can — In A Puppet Show

If you have ever sat in a critical theory lecture and wished that your professor would be replaced by a group of dapper, miniaturized historical figures who sometimes rap, there’s now a puppet show to satiate that desire.

April 17, 2018
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Audra McDonald honored by MIT

If something scares me, I have to do it,” says renowned actress and singer Audra McDonald in a short video that preceded her on-stage interview on Saturday at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which has chosen McDonald as the recipient of … Continued

April 19, 2018
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New ‘Manufacturing Mischief’ features Chomsky, Rand, and Tiny Trump

It’s Noam Chomsky vs. Ayn Rand in a new show from multimedia artist Pedro Reyes — and just to be clear, it’s a comedy, and they’re puppets.

April 24, 2018
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Five things to do, April 30-May 6

The Beautiful Brain exhibit at the MIT Museum, Lexington Tattoo and Muster, Pugs Take Boston, and more.

April 27, 2018
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Citizen Science

Aerocene project hopes to put research into the hands of citizens.

May 3, 2018
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Gordon Hall

Gordon Hall discusses The Number of Inches Between Them at the List Center.

May 11, 2018
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Track Premiere: Occurrence – “All of Your Devils”

The work of New York-based band Occurrence exists outside any currents fashions or claimable trends — its patterns and rhythms reject easy recognition in favor of something far more impressionistic.

May 13, 2018
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MIT’S LEILA KINNEY BRINGS SCIENCE AND ART TOGETHER

As prestigious universities go, MIT is the rare institution that refuses to be limited by tradition.

May 18, 2018
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Our Beautiful Brains: How The Father Of Neuroscience Makes Synapses Look Like Modern Art

At the MIT Museum exhibit, modern brain imagery juxtaposes with Cajal’s delicate drawings, including an 85-inch screen that shows a rotating simulation of a brain slice.

May 22, 2018

Knockout acting in Studio’s play of a marriage on the rocks

Spouses Theo and Kevin are preparing for a dinner party in the opening moments of Ken Urban’s “The Remains.”

May 22, 2018
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VIDEO: Watch Audra McDonald and Oskar Eustis in Conversation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Watch a video of Audra McDonald and Oskar Eustis in conversation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on April 14, 2018.

May 23, 2018
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Violinist Johnny Gandelsman Infuses Bach’s ‘Sonatas & Partitas’ With Joy

Gandelsman has been celebrated for playing a wide variety of music, from purely classical to the most inventive contemporary pieces.

May 29, 2018

Manufacturing Michief: Pedro Reyes with Torry Bend

I first came across Pedro Reyes’s work while researching performance and social activism.

June 5, 2018
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MIT artist Joan Jonas wins Kyoto Prize

The honors keep coming for artist Joan Jonas, a professor emerita at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

June 14, 2018
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Integrating the arts and humanities at MIT, then and now

“In our increasingly complex society, science and technology can no longer be segregated from their human and social consequences. The most difficult and complicated problems confronting our generation are in the field of the humanities and social sciences.” This declaration, … Continued

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The Art of MIT: Leila Kinney & Evan Ziporyn of MIT’s Center for Art, Science and Technology (CAST)

Everyone is familiar with MIT and the university’s reputation as a serious force in the world of science, tech, and research, but how many are aware of MIT’s legacy in the arts?

June 14, 2018
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MIT identifies landmarked warehouse as potential new home for its School of Architecture and Planning

MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P) has scouted a potential new home in the Metropolitan Storage Warehouse, which will expand SA+P’s programs and establish the Institute as a design hub.

June 14, 2018
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Joan Jonas Wins $900,000 Kyoto Prize

Jonas is well known for her performances and video installations that focus on the relationship between viewers’ bodies and various surfaces, such as screens and mirrors.

June 15, 2018
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Reflecting on Gordon Hall at the List Visual Arts Center

An exhibition of the work of New York-based artist Gordon Hall was on view at List Projects at the MIT’s List Visual Arts Center.

June 20, 2018

Why You Should Enroll Your Kids in Piano Lessons, According to Science

With 88 keys and hundreds of internal strings, a standard piano produces a slew of unique sounds and tones.

July 1, 2018
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Carissa Rodriguez’s The Maid At Mit List Visual Arts Center

Carissa Rodriguez’s newest film, “The Maid,” is currently on view at the MIT List Visual Arts Center.

July 5, 2018

Post-Performance Future

Agnieszka Kurant, Assembly Line, 2017, which was created during her CAST residency at MIT was featured in an article about artists creating work in the theme of “post-performance future.”

July 5, 2018
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MIT invent AI that extracts each instrument from songs

It could be a dream for music sampling as MIT reveal their new tech capable of finding and editing individual instruments from tracks.

July 11, 2018
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Carissa Rodriguez: The Maid

Carissa Rodriguez’s exhibition The Maid is currently on view at the MIT List Visual Arts Center.

July 24, 2018
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At MIT, past imperfect and present very imperfect

Hard as it is to make the weight of history visible, it’s so much more so to show its absence. In her rather astonishing show “Imagined Communities,” Mila Teshaieva manages to do both. It runs through Feb. 28 at the … Continued

August 9, 2018
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The Venice Biennale Swamp Pavilion, Part I: Swamp Radio

Though Venice has been the home of the eponymous Biennale since 1895 and the site of Western trade since roughly 400 AD, its longer history as a swamp is often overlooked.

August 15, 2018
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MIT Museum to Celebrate a New England Icon

Opening October 2018 at the MIT Museum, “Lighter, Stronger, Faster” spotlights the revolutionary design of Rhode Island’s Herreshoff boats.

August 16, 2018
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A Peek into Porcelain and Stone’s Somerville Workspace

Kimberly Huestis creates porcelain jewelry inspired by the ocean. 

August 22, 2018
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VIDEO: Great White Shark Swims Within Inches Of Underwater Photographer

An underwater photographer had an unforgettable encounter with a great white shark off the coast of Massachusetts.

August 24, 2018
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12 of the most incredible dorms from around the world

After being accepted to one of the world’s top universities, students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston are treated with a dorm featuring a two-story gym, multipurpose theatre rooms, and — most famously — a giant ball pit.

August 28, 2018
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Schoenberg at the movies

“Schoenberg in Hollywood,” a work by Boston-based composer Tod Machover, will receive its world premiere Nov. 14 at Emerson College’s Paramount Center.

September 5, 2018

How Neri Oxman reimagined design

The work of MIT professor Neri Oxman straddles art and science.

September 7, 2018

Flash Art 322 September – October 2018

The cover of the September – October issue of Flash Art portrays Tony Conrad, an avant-garde filmmaker, pioneering musician, artist, theorist, philosopher, committed teacher, and activist.

September 12, 2018
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Logs accept first woman

Though women have auditioned before, Quinn Brodsky ’22 first to be accepted

September 17, 2018
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Our Guide To This Fall’s Most Innovative Opera

No stranger to blending technology with the opera stage, composer and academic head of MIT’s Media Lab Tod Machover tackles an unlikely history this fall in the world premiere of “Schoenberg in Hollywood.”

September 17, 2018
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Meet Nicole L’Huillier of Breaking Forms

Today we’d like to introduce you to Nicole L’Huillier.

September 18, 2018
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Megaphones Up, the Philharmonic Opens With Two Young Voices

The New York Philharmonic’s declaration of its new-music bona fides this season is so emphatic, it’s being delivered with megaphones.

September 18, 2018
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Maya Beiser and Evan Ziporyn Embark on a U.S. Tour with Ziporyn’s Ambient Orchestra Performing Bowie Symphonic: Blackstar

This fall, cello soloist Maya Beiser and composer/conductor Evan Ziporyn embark on a U.S. tour with Ziporyn’s Ambient Orchestra.

September 20, 2018
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This beaming sculpture will shine from earth’s orbit — and probe the politics of space

In November 1969, six tiny pieces of art hitched a ride to the moon.

September 23, 2018
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BAF and Carlo Ratti Win Taiwan National Library Competition

Bio-architecture Formosana (BAF) and Carlo Ratti Architects have won the international competition for the Southern branch of the Taiwan National Library and Repository in Tainan, Taiwan.

September 24, 2018
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Twelve Tones in Tinseltown

Arnold Schoenberg fled the darkness and despair of Hitler’s Europe for 1930s Hollywood—a bold new world of golden sunshine and camera-ready beauty.

September 24, 2018
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Motion sculptures in 3-D

A system developed by CSAIL researchers that creates 3-D motion sculptures based off of 2-D video could help dancers and athletes learn more about how they move.

September 24, 2018
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MIT Hacking Arts Marries Art And Blockchain

The student-run festival will bring together art professionals, engineers, and entrepreneurs.

October 3, 2018
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Who Is Neri Oxman?

A star of M.I.T.’s Media Lab working in “material ecology,” she has intrigued Björk, Brad Pitt and the Cooper Hewitt.

October 6, 2018
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Free Public Art Around Boston that Will Blow Your Kids’ Minds

A tribute to science (that kids can run inside of) looms near MIT.

October 9, 2018
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Tomás Saraceno llega al Palais de Tokyo con una “jam session cósmica”

“La idea es actuar juntos en un sistema en devenir, siempre contingente y en permanente evolución, siguiendo various ritmos y trayectorias, para obtener un conjunto del universo”, explicó ayer en la vista guiada para la prensa internacional, junto con la … Continued

October16, 2018
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With Spiders and Space Dust, Tomás Saraceno Takes Off

“Oh, no! They swept her away!” exclaimed Tomás Saraceno, his eyes wide as he looked through a doorway at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.

October 19, 2018
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Jonny Sun Knows That Twitter Can Still Be The Internet’s Good Place

The Twitter humorist turned author-illustrator has a book—co-created by Lin-Manuel Miranda—that might just convince you not to delete those social media accounts.

October 22, 2018
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Bruno Latour, the Post-Truth Philosopher, Mounts a Defense of Science

He spent decades deconstructing the ways that scientists claim their authority. Can his ideas help them regain that authority today?

October 25, 2018
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Tony Conrad fought the snob art of the social climbers

Tony Conrad pickled film in canning jars. He made musical instruments out of bathroom plungers and golf club sleeves.

October 25, 2018
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Seven Can’t Miss Events in Boston, November 2018

This time, Machover examines the flight of groundbreaking modernist composer Arnold Schoenberg from Nazi Germany to L.A. (via Brookline, as it happens), and the challenges the notoriously tenacious artist faced when he got there.

October 25, 2018
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Smelling A.I.: Anicka Yi On the Future of Olfaction, Death, and How Science Can Benefit From Working With Artists

Describing any of Anicka Yi’s unorthodox works as being “multimedia” would be an accurate, though a severely understated characterization.

October 27, 2018
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Bowie, Joni and Leonard: Breathing life into the poetic trinity

What becomes a legend most?

November 1, 2018
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Exposition : Tomas Saraceno tricote le fil de l’univers

At the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Tomas Saraceno installs his spectacular and poetic work woven by spiders.

November 2, 2018
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First, he wrote a book with Lin-Manuel Miranda. Next, an art exhibit in Cambridge that will tell you if you’re funny

Between moonlighting as a Twitter comedian, collaborating with “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda on a new book, and making appearances on late-night television, Jonny Sun somehow found time to create an interactive art installation that’s debuting in Cambridge this month.

November 9, 2018
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Jonny Sun’s New Art Project Is a Sitcom, Starring You

The Twitter celebrity’s Laughing Room features a laugh track powered by artificial intelligence.

November 9, 2018
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From Robots To Schoenberg: MIT Opera Of The Future Composer Tod Machover Evolves Tradition With Tech

It’s been a long journey from Machover’s expansive imagination to the stage.

November 14, 2018
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Joan Jonas Commission for 2015 Venice Biennale to Make U.S. Premiere in San Francisco

They Come to Us Without a Word, the multimedia installation created by Joan Jonas for the U.S. Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale, will get its American premiere with a three-month run at the Fort Mason Center for Arts & … Continued

November 15, 2018
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Machover Imagines Beautiful Mountain

At the world premiere of Tod Machover’s Schoenberg in Hollywood, one could glimpse great hope even as the namesake composer’s life intersected with some of the most traumatic and violent human atrocities of the 20th century.

November 17, 2018
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Here, there, and everywhere

Visit Cambridge’s MIT Museum to learn how one of the university’s earliest graduates affected the boatbuilding industry and created six America’s Cup winners, among other innovative vessels.

November 20, 2018
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Emerging Media and Future Realities at Getting Real

Mixed reality, artificial intelligence and other innovations are rapidly shifting the landscape of media and society.

November 26, 2018
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MIT Receives Lead Gift for New Music Building

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has announced a lead gift from a longtime supporter for a new state-of-the-art music building.

November 27, 2018
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5 Things To Do This Weekend, From A Holiday Classic To A Holiday Horror Story

The MIT List Center is paying homage to a man whose name you might not know, but whose multimedia work probably influences a lot of the culture you love.

November 29, 2018
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A 28-year-old MIT doctoral student is writing his first movie

Humorist Jonny Sun, a PhD candidate at MIT and a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, has had a very busy year.

November 29, 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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

‘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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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
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Rumor has it…

…that you shouldn’t spread rumors — they may come true

January 31, 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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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
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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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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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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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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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‘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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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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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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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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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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At The MIT List Center, ‘Safe Passages’ Takes Up The Theme Of Race, Power And Surveillance

In colonial America, “lantern laws” required that all slaves move about the streets at night bearing lit candles. The dancing flames served to track and control a population that might otherwise escape or rebel.

February 26, 2019
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Moon Over Dark Street Cabaret Comes to MIT

Pilgrim Theatre and MIT Theater Arts Program collaborate to bring the company’s acclaimed cabaret Moon Over Dark Street to Cambridge, at the Institute’s elegant new performance space, Theater W97 located at 345 Vassar Street for three performances only March 8-10, 2019.

February 26, 2019
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Boston on the cheap

MIT’s List Visual Arts Center has beautiful contemporary art by Frank Stella and Pablo Picasso.

March 6, 2019
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5 Things To Do This Weekend, From Women’s Photobooks To A Forsythe World Premiere

For the first time in the U.S., Kapwani Kiwanga’s “Safe Passages” is on view at the MIT List Center.

March 7, 2019
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Six decades, twelve trumpets, and infinite beauty

MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble, MIT Alumni Jazz Band, and trumpeter Sean Jones express the legacy of jazz with incredible technique and musicality

March 9, 2019
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The ‘Northwest Passage’ At MIT Reminds Us Of Warming Waters And Our Role In Climate Change

Walking up the pathway to MIT’s nanotechnology research building, look up.

March 11, 2019
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Spiders Are The Partners In This “Inter-Species Collaboration”

Technological advances have always influenced art.

March 12, 2019
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Sculptures Confront the Brutal History of Racialized Surveillance in the US

On view at MIT List Visual Arts Center, artist Kapwani Kiwanga’s Safe Passage features powerful meditations on antebellum “lantern laws” and The Negro Motorist Green Book.

March 25, 2019
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Neri Oxman builds with melanin for Totems project

Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences Neri Oxman’s Mediated Matter Group at MIT has designed an installation using melanin — and says the skin pigment will inevitably be used in architecture.

April 4, 2019
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For ‘Slow Art Day,’ No More Speeding Through Museum Galleries

Most people spend between 10 to 28 seconds looking at one piece of art.

April 5, 2019
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A Rewarding Harbison Tribute

Boston has more than one fantastic orchestra, as Boston Modern Orchestra Project thoroughly demonstrated in a landmark concert honoring the 80th birthday of John Harbison on Sunday in Jordan Hall, BMOP presented four works which showed the range of the composer’s … Continued

April 10, 2019

Notre Dame can be rebuilt, but its unique sound may be gone forever

Like so many people on Monday, I tuned in to the news of the fire in Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.

April 16, 2019
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Looking back at the Bauhaus: objects of their affection

There are many things to praise about “Arresting Fragments: Object Photography at the Bauhaus,” which runs at the MIT Museum through Sept. 1.

April 17, 2019
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Jonny Sun’s Work Diary: Correct Spellign Optoinal, Creativity Mandatory

The author-illustrator behind ‘everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too’ is writing for TV and film, plus pursuing a Ph.D. at M.I.T.

April 22, 2019
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At MIT, Rose Salane Unspools The Personal And The Political Like A Librarian

A library bookcase extends across the length of the Bakalar Gallery at the MIT List Visual Arts Center.

April 23, 2019
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How Origami Is Revolutionizing Industrial Design

Scientists and engineers are finding practical applications for the Japanese art form in space, medicine, robotics, architecture and more  

April 23, 2019
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George Steel — Bopping To Botticelli And Getting Into A Groove At The Gardner

One night, it’s the Campbell Brothers foot-stomping their way through a rocking, bluesy set of their “sacred steel” gospel music. Another it’s MIT’s Evan Ziporyn’s cello concerto version of David Bowie’s “Blackstar” with Maya Beiser

April 30, 2019
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Form and Function in New England

The Bauhaus at 100

May 1, 2019
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Rose Salane at MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts

“List Projects: Rose Salane” is on view at MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, through Sunday, May 26.

May 3, 2019
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Coming Attractions: May 5 through 21 — What Will Light Your Fire

Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

May 5, 2019
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“ERICKA BECKMAN: DOUBLE REVERSE”

Beckman’s first museum survey, covering some thirty years of work, will be accompanied by a catalogue with contributions by curator Henriette Huldisch, Marie de Brugerolle, Attilia Fattori Franchini, and Piper Marshall.

May 14, 2019
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I.M. Pei, famed architect who designed JFK Library, dies at 102

I.M. Pei, who was widely recognized as the most prominent American architect of his generation with such works as his transformation of the Louvre Museum in Paris, died Thursday.

May 16, 2019
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I.M. Pei, Architect Who Designed Louvre Pyramid, JFK Memorial Library, Dies At 102

I.M. Pei, the versatile, globe-trotting architect who revived the Louvre with a giant glass pyramid and captured the spirit of rebellion at the multi-shaped Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, has died at age 102.

May 16, 2019
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I.M. Pei, Master Architect Whose Buildings Dazzled the World, Dies at 102

I. M. Pei, who began his long career designing buildings for a New York real estate developer and ended it as one of the most revered architects in the world, died early Thursday at his home in Manhattan.

May 16, 2019
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In ‘Double Reverse’ At The MIT List, Ericka Beckman Focuses Her Lens On The Game

In “Ericka Beckman: Double Reverse,” on view beginning Friday at the MIT List Center for the Visual Arts, Beckman explores connections between games and gambling, the larger structures of capital, as well as the gamification of a culture which has … Continued

May 21, 2019
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I.M. Pei’s enduring Boston legacy

His buildings at MIT are part of a context, resolving complex campus geometries.

May 22, 2019

Video pioneer Ericka Beckman gives patriarchal canon a bashing

The works and installations of the overlooked peer of Cindy Sherman and Richard Prince go on show at MIT List Visual Arts Center

May 30, 2019
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14 Things Dads Actually Want to Do for Father’s Day in Boston

While we’ve been to the Museum of Science and MIT Museum many times, my husband can never get enough of the mind-expanding exhibits at both.

June 9, 2019
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Arts This Week: ‘Ericka Beckman: Double Reverse,’ ‘Yerma’ And ‘The View Upstairs’

This week, WGBH News’ Arts Editor Jared Bowen tours an exhibition of artist Ericka Beckman at the MIT List Visual Arts Center and reviews two new theater productions in Boston: “Yerma” and “The View Upstairs.”

June 13, 2019
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Here’s the Free Fun Fridays 2019 Schedule

Lace up your walking shoes, gas up the car, and don’t worry about keeping your wallet too close—the Highland Street Foundation’s Free Fun Fridays are back.

June 14, 2019
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Science photographer Felice Frankel donates architecture snaps to MIT

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries received a gift of 600 photographs by Felice Frankel, the renowned artist and scientist.

June 20, 2019
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Alexis Sablone, M.I.T. Grad and Future Olympic Skateboarder

She has seven X-Games medals under her belt, as well as an architecture degree.

June 28, 2019
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MIT’s Building Boom Brings New Slate of Major Architects to Campus

In the first decade of the 2000s, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) went on a building spree unlike any in its history.

July 3, 2019
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Fairy tales, video games, and hard labor in this artist’s hallucinatory films

“Ericka Beckman: Double Reverse,” on view through July 28 at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, follows last year’s “Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective” there.

July 17, 2019
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Emirati Artist Farah Al Qasimi to Open First Solo Show in America

“It’s been exciting to learn how to let a story unfold slowly,” says Farah Al Qasimi. The Emirati artist is speaking of her first long-form video piece “Um al Naar (Mother of Fire, 2019)” that will soon showcase at a solo … Continued

July 18, 2019
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Vivid And Lush, Farah Al Qasimi’s Photographs Draw On The Imagination At MIT List

Farah Al Qasimi creates lush, vividly detailed photographs that leave almost everything to the imagination.

July 25, 2019
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Bursting Onto the Stage Like a ‘Bat Out of Hell’

The musical based on the grandiose Meat Loaf album shines a light on its songwriter, Jim Steinman, and the many twists and turns it took to get both projects made.

July 25, 2019
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Brandon Clifford creates heavy concrete sculptures that sway and roll

American designer Brandon Clifford has drawn inspiration from megalithic architecture to create concrete sculptures that join together like a jigsaw puzzle.

August 1, 2019
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Neri Oxman has all the answers

Even before receiving her PhD from MIT in design and computation in 2010, Oxman, now 43, had come to be considered one of the leading figures in her field. Since then her acclaim has only grown. Her 2015 TED Talk has been … Continued

August 9, 2019
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Rising UAE Artist Analyzes Social Mores in Her First U.S. Institutional Show

MIT List Visual Arts Center’s List Projects series is known for featuring young and emerging artists that break aesthetic barriers. This fall’s List Projects: Farah Al Qasimi is no exception.

August 19, 2019
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10 Art Exhibits Worth Catching This Fall

Sculptor Alicja Kwade is best known for works using common, but symbolically significant materials like rocks, lamps and clocks, which she arranges in site-specific compositions to create mysterious landscapes.

August 26, 2019
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The Ticket: What’s happening in the local arts world

Futurity Island: This installation, conceived by Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas, is a musical instrument built from water and sewer pipes — tools originally used to shape nature to humanity’s purposes.

August 29, 2019
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“I’m not a nice girl – I’m a photographer”

Berenice Abbott began her career as Man Ray’s darkroom assistant in 1920’s Paris, then returned to New York to take the pictures that made her name – dazzling.

September 1, 2019
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ALICJA KWADE

Alicja Kwade’s confounding sculptures challenge perceived realities and destabilize systems of measurement and value, unsettling viewers with mirrors and sculpted facsimiles that appear to transform objects and materials before our eyes.

September 3, 2019
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Artist Will Make $2M Diamond Disappear Into a ‘Flat Black Spot’

She’ll use technology that mimics the visual effects of a black hole.

September 4, 2019

”List Projects: Farah Al Qasimi“ at MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge

The MIT List Visual Arts Center is pleased to announce “List Projects: Farah Al Qasimi“, the artist’s first solo exhibition at a US institution.

September 5, 2019
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Sorry, Anish Kapoor: MIT Scientists Made the Blackest Black Ever Invented, and an Artist Just Used It to Do Something Magical

Coated with the new super-black, a $2 million diamond has become the gem that absorbs all light.

September 17, 2019
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Portable ‘palace’ to be showcased at Sharjah Museum of Islamic Culture

Sharjah Museums Authority (SMA) is celebrating heritage in the Mena region with a portable “palace” made of recycled fabrics using the art of reverse appliqué.

September 17, 2019
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Ensamble Studio to receive 2019 RIBA Charles Jencks Award

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has today (Wednesday 18 September) named Ensamble Studio, led by architects Débora Mesa and Antón García-Abril, as the recipient of the 2019 RIBA Charles Jencks Award.

September 23, 2019
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MIT LIST VISUAL ARTS CENTER NAMES NEW PUBLIC ART CURATOR AND ASSISTANT CURATOR

Christopher Ketcham appointed as associate curator of the center’s public art and permanent collection. Selby Nimrod promoted from curatorial assistant to assistant curator for exhibitions.

September 25, 2019
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New England’s most fascinating museum shows for fall

Fresh off a yearlong commission for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s rooftop, Berlin-based sculptor Kwade brings her playful, monumental modernism to Cambridge with a new solo show.

October 10, 2019
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At MIT List, Alicja Kwade’s ‘In Between Glances’ Asks Whether We Can Believe Our Eyes

In Alicja Kwade’s world, nothing is what it may seem.

October 15, 2019
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The Surprising Origin Of A Color Darker Than Vantablack

In September, 2019, scientists at MIT unveiled the “blackest black” material to date, which was made using carbon nanotubes. That’s the same material used to make Vantablack, which was once considered the world’s darkest material.

October 21, 2019
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Art by the Numbers

At the National Museum of Mathematics, origami helps bridge the gap between art and math and finds the beauty in both.

October 23, 2019

Layers of Connection: Becca Albee

In Becca Albee’s work, the overlooked residues that escape conventional narratives are equally as important as the information coalescing in history.

October 24, 2019
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MIT’s ‘The Polaroid Project’ traces the pre-digital influence of instant photo technology

A photograph is its own reality: a flat object, usually rectangular, that renders as two dimensions the four that make up the space-time continuum.

October 24, 2019
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The Polaroid Project

It’s one of the best origin stories ever: In December 1943, when his three-year old daughter asked her father why she couldn’t see—right away!—the photo he’d just taken of her, Edwin H. Land (1909–1991) thought, “Why not?”

November 5, 2019
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The Polaroid Project: At the Intersection of Art and Technology’ Review: Beauty, in an Instant

The Polaroid camera provided fertile ground for creative invention.

November 5, 2019
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At Urbano Project, artist Erin Genia ties together ‘everything in the universe’

Her work addresses the Dakota concept of ‘mitakuye oyasin’ — we are all related

November 7, 2019
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Ultra-Black Is the New Black

Scientists are setting dark traps from which light cannot escape. But nature already has built a few of her own.

November 11, 2019
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In An Instant: A Commemoration of the Birth of Polaroid

On Saturday, Nov. 9, the MIT Museum held a day-long special event celebrating Polaroid — the Cambridge-born camera that captured people’s hearts from its invention to its modern day resurgence.

November 12, 2019
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The Polaroid Project, Singer-songwriter Paula Cole, and more

In the height of its popularity, Polaroid cameras allowed people to capture moments in an instant.

November 12, 2019
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Textile Installation T-Serai Highlights Humanitarian Causes

‘T-Serai’ by Dr. Azra Aksamija highlights humanitarian causes including refugees, climate change, and textile overproduction. The exhibition is on view at Sharjah Museum for Islamic Civilization (SMIC) until December 7, 2019.

November 14, 2019
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At MIT’s List, Artist Becca Albee Interweaves Friendship And Horseshoe Crabs

In Becca Albee’s installation, on view at the MIT List Visual Arts Center beginning Dec. 12, we are confronted with unlikely bits of ephemera that seem to hold no obvious connection.

December 5, 2019
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Polaroid pioneer Edwin Land pictured the artistic potential in everyone

Unfolding through technology, magic, or perhaps both, the recently taken photograph transformed from indeterminate shapes into the recognizable face of a loved one.

December 12, 2019
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Many Shades of a Star

In Spring 2020, Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee will host sharp-witted artist Sarnath Banerjee at MIT, America’s most hallowed academic ground, for a lecture on the economics of water.

December 12, 2019
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A (temporary) home for the holidays in Downtown Crossing

The space at 467 Washington St. in Downtown Crossing is prime retail real estate: It has floor-to-ceiling windows, a spacious footprint, and is just steps from the T.

December 16, 2019
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Video: Minds and Hands at Work

A look inside MIT’s maker culture

December 18, 2019
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IN “BANAL PRESENTS,” THREE BLACK ARTISTS INTERVENE IN VAST SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS, FROM THE PRISON SYSTEM TO EDUCATION

“Banal Presents” was the final installment in a trilogy of exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art curated by Meg Onli and titled Colored People Time, after a black expression that frames a supposed lack of punctuality on the part … Continued

December 19, 2019
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The Year in Screens: The Defining Moving-Image and Digital Works of 2019

Gretchen Bender and Ericka Beckman were concerned with the representation of women in mass media, and both produced work with a cunning sense for the spectacular editing style of music videos, reality TV, and Hollywood filmmaking.

December 25, 2019
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MIT Art Center Hires Natalie Bell, Rising New York Curator, to Oversee Exhibitions Program

After its last curator, Henriette Huldisch, departed to take a top position at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the MIT List Visual Arts Center, a closely watched art space in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has picked a significant figure in New York to fill … Continued

January 6, 2020
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MIT LIST VISUAL ARTS CENTER APPOINTS NATALIE BELL CURATOR

The MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, announced today that Natalie Bell has been named its next curator of exhibitions.

January 6, 2020
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16 Art Exhibits Worth Leaving The House For This Winter

From Tschabalala Self’s colorful recreations of the black female form at the ICA to the opening of the MAAM, Boston’s newest contemporary art museum, here are a few winter exhibits that have me looking on the bright side.

January 6, 2020
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‘Bowie Cello Symphonic: Blackstar’ by Maya Beiser Review: Tribute to a Rock Icon

The cellist reworks and expands David Bowie’s final album.

January 7, 2020
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Books: How Harold Edgerton Saw the Unseen

Sixty-three years ago, on the evening of Jan. 10, 1957, Harold Edgerton set a 4,000-volt electronic flash of his own design to the right of a small, shallow pool of milk in his “Strobe Lab” at the Massachusetts Institute of … Continued

January 8, 2020
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UCSB Faculty to Perform Music by Composer Elena Ruehr

UCSB Music faculty members will present works by composer Elena Ruehr, including two world premieres, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 24, in Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall.

January 8, 2020
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Kennedy & Violich Architecture are redeveloping the interior of MIT’s Hayden Library

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Hayden Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is about to receive a significant interior renovation.

January 9, 2020
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Maya Beiser Reimagines Bowie’s ‘Blackstar’ As Gorgeous Cello Piece: Premiere

Like so many others, Maya Beiser was “obsessed” with David Bowie’s final album, Blackstar, when it came out in January 2016.

January 9, 2020
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Women’s Music

Hear the sounds of ancient and modern female composers in January

January 9, 2020
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David Bowie’s ‘Blackstar’ Reimagined for Cello

Cellist Maya Beiser and composer Evan Ziporyn join us to discuss the new album, Bowie Cello Symphonic: Blackstar, which comes out today, January 10.

January 10, 2020

Kennedy & Violich to Update the Hayden Library at MIT

The Hayden Library at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is undergoing an interior renovation at the hand of Kennedy & Violich Architecture (KVA).

January 10, 2020
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Christopher Wood and Eric Michaud on Art History’s Disciplinary Crisis

“A discipline enters into a state of self-consciousness, writes its own history, and theorizes its practices when something is unresolved,” writes New York University art historian Christopher S. Wood, a preeminent scholar of the German Renaissance, in his new book, … Continued

January 15, 2020
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Boston’s best classical music events for the busy winter season

Violinist Johnny Gandelsman, one-fourth of the Brooklyn Rider Quartet, returns to Boston with his latest Bach project, the complete Cello Suites transcribed for violin.

January 17, 2020
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How Polaroid pioneered the instant photography revolution

The Polaroid camera bypassed the entire process of film development, thus providing photographers an immediate look at their work. Now, the museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is showcasing the intersection of technology and art.

January 21, 2020
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Chilmark: Gray-day blahs

If you happen to be in Cambridge, you may want to check out the Herreshoff Legacy exhibit at the MIT Museum, up through May 1, 2021.

January 22, 2020
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20 Fun Things To Do in Boston with Teens

Inspire your science-loving teens with a visit to the MIT Museum.

January 24, 2020
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Violinist Johnny Gandelsman finds ‘infinite possibilities’ in Bach’s cello suites

January 2015. The violinist Johnny Gandelsman — Moscow-born, New York-based, and a member of such restlessly curious groups as the Silk Road Ensemble and the string quartet Brooklyn Rider — is on the small stage of MIT’s Killian Hall.

January 24, 2020
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Christine Sun Kim, the Transgressive Deaf Artist, Will Sign the National Anthem Alongside Demi Lovato During the Super Bowl

In an interview, Kim explains why she accepted the opportunity to perform during one of America’s most-watched events and what it means to the Deaf community.

January 28, 2020
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Sundance Institute Has Announced Seven Fellows for Sundance Institute Artist Residency at Ucross

Sundance Institute, a nonprofit organization that provides and preserves the space for independent artists in film, theatre, and media to create and thrive, and Ucross, a prestigious artist residency program and creative laboratory for the arts, and have announced seven … Continued

February 6, 2020
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Dancing through Bach’s sublime Cello Suites, on the violin

Bach’s Six Cello Suites are the beating, deep-souled heart of the cello repertoire.

February 10, 2020

MIT Department Of Architecture Announces Its Spring 2020 Public Programs

The MIT Department of Architecture has announced its spring 2020 public program starting from February 10 with a film screening of Jill Magid’s The Proposal, followed by a discussion with Caroline A. Jones, Timothy Hyde, and Ana Miljački.

February 10, 2020

Becca Albee

Because we are living in times of overwhelming, and daily, and sometimes unimaginable loss; because we are living in times when the extinction of species and the loss of certain ways of living are considered inevitable, and certain lives “ungrievable,” … Continued

February 10, 2020
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A Fiddling Twist to the Bach Cello Suites

No rule book prohibits someone from playing music on an instrument for which it wasn’t originally written.

February 10, 2020

Carlo Ratti and Daan Roosegaarde’s letter to David Chipperfield

You ask us what architects should do about the unmistakably impending environmental catastrophe.

February 11, 2020
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This Artist and Super Bowl Performer Wants to Make Her Work—And Her Wardrobe—Accessible

If you didn’t catch California-born, Berlin-based artist Christine Sun Kim’s work at the Whitney Biennial last year, and if you didn’t make it to the Museum of Modern Art’s first major exhibition of sound in 2013, then you likely first … Continued

February 10, 2020
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Time Is Still a Mystery to ‘Einstein’s Dreams’ Author

Why Alan Lightman, astrophysicist turned writer, traded black holes for black ink.

February 13, 2020
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Artist Christine Sun Kim on ‘deaf rage,’ the Super Bowl and the power of sound

When artist Christine Sun Kim performed the national anthem in American Sign Language (ASL) at the Super Bowl on Feb. 2, she hoped it would give the Asian Deaf community some comfort to see someone like her on national TV.

February 13, 2020
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‘Colored People Time’ Confronts How Blacks Navigate Race Each Day

The show, called “Colored People Time,” dives into questions of race, colonization, and reparations.

February 17, 2020
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Six Must-See Spring Art Exhibitions in and Around Boston

Where to go and what to see for your spring design fix.

February, 20, 2020
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Buildings With Skin and Wearable Digestive Systems: How Neri Oxman Is Revolutionizing the Relationship Between Biology and Design

The MIT professor’s new show “Material Ecology” is open now at the Museum of Modern Art.

February 27, 2020
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Meaningful museum interpretations using virtual reality

If the purpose of museums is to reflect on our reality, can virtual reality interpretation add a new and valuable dimension?

March 4, 2020
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Amino Acid Rock Music Helps Build New Proteins

Some scientists teach computers to “see” proteins. Markus Buehler is teaching them to hear the compounds instead

March 18, 2020
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Open Source Goes Mainstream – How Sharing Is Shaping The Future Of Music

Open source developments in music are leading the industry in a new direction.

March 19, 2020
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RAMI GEORGE’S VIDEOS SHOW WHAT IT’S LIKE TO GROW UP IN A CULT

The drawings and video included in George’s first institutional solo exhibition, which was scheduled to open at the MIT List Visual Arts Center this month, stem from an effort to unpack these childhood experiences through art.

March 24, 2020
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Making New Proteins From Music

Last year, MIT researchers announced that they were turning the biochemical properties of proteins into music. Now, they’ve used those musical compositions to create entirely new proteins.

March 28, 2020
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Scientists have turned the structure of the coronavirus into music

You’ve probably seen dozens of images of the novel coronavirus—now responsible for 1 million infections and tens of thousands of deaths. Now, scientists have come up with a way for you to hear it: by translating the structure of its … Continued

April 3, 2020

Coronavirus’s complex spiked structure inspires translation into music

Coronaviruses get their name from the crown of spikelike proteins that surround them. Now, the protein spikes of the novel coronavirus have been turned into an intriguing musical composition — one researchers hope could inspire new ways to fight the … Continued

April 11, 2020
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The Opening Response: Jay Scheib

The Opening Response titles a special series of interviews with artists, curators, writers, composers, mediators, and space-makers around the world.

April 17, 2020

Coronavirus the musical: U.S. scientists turn virus into melody to aid research

From tinkling harmonies as the virus disarms cells to clashing and stormy as it replicates, U.S. scientists have translated the novel coronavirus’ spiked protein structure to music in an effort to better understand the pathogen.

April 20, 2020
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Orbiting, la nuova installazione fluttuante sulla storia dell’umanità

Una sorta di carosello onirico sospeso nell’aria, con oggetti di ogni natura che girano in maniera circolare formando un’orbita immaginifica e surreale

April 23, 2020
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Jonny Sun: You’re Not Alone In Feeling Lonely

For Jonny Sun, loneliness felt like being an alien on a distant planet, alone in the universe.

April 24, 2020
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MIT junior Rona Wang lands six-figure book deal with Simon & Schuster

As a high school student in Oregon, Rona Wang was invited to math competitions at MIT. She was so talented that after graduation, she ended up attending the renowned university to study math and computer science.

April 30, 2020
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WHAT HAPPENS TO A UNIVERSITY’S ART LENDING PROGRAM IN A PANDEMIC?

A Q & A with Lisa DeLong, registrar at the MIT List Visual Arts Center

May 11, 2020
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PHOTOGRAPHER TO KNOW: HAROLD EDGERTON

Edgerton captured motion like no other, yet he considered himself a scientist — not an artist.

May 12, 2020
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The Spaces That Make Cities Fairer and More Resilient

Our shared economy depends most on what happens in between.

May 12, 2020
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Making Music Out Of The Coronavirus

Years ago, Markus Buehler developed a method to model proteins through music.

May 12, 2020

‘I found the roots of electronic music in a cupboard!’: the tale of India’s lost techno pioneers

In the 1960s, a group of Indian students accidentally invented minimal techno – and hoped their synths could cure disease. A new documentary unearths their story

May 14, 2020
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5 Things To Do This Weekend, Including A Virtual Dumpling Class And A Floral Painting Workshop

With help from Opera of the Future group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, composer Tod Machover took samplings of cityscapes, vocalizations and texts from Philadelphians.

May 14, 2020
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More than 800 MIT graduates will sing one song together, virtually

Each person sings one note, explains the professor behind the idea, Eran Egozy

May 21, 2020
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Design That Makes a Difference: Fusing Art, Science, and Product Design at MIT

Fusing art, science, and product design, senior Jierui Fang has followed — and sometimes created — her own path at MIT.

June 6, 2020
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A Scientist Turned the Coronavirus Into Music—Here’s What It Sounds Like

Translating the genetic code of virus proteins into music helps reveal their intricacies; sounds ‘a little like Zappa’

June 26, 2020
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This Theater Plans Dividers to Keep Patrons Socially Distanced

The Wilma, seeking to reopen in Philadelphia, says it will erect a new seating structure in which every party is in its own separate box.

July 1, 2020
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What Are Art Galleries For?

Three artists on the future of the gallery system after Covid-19.

July 1, 2020
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Artist Anicka Yi Explains Why COVID-19 Is Terrible for Humanity, But Fundamentally ‘Good for the Planet’

The artist says it is counterproductive to ask artists what their role in any given situation is supposed to be.

July 8, 2020
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A Spotlight Shines on Wallace Neff, an Architect Loved by Celebrities and AD

There’s a new monograph out on the Los Angeles architect, who was a fixture in Architectural Digest in the 1920s and ’30s

July 8, 2020
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MIT M.Arch Graduates Alexandre Beaudouin-Mackay & Sarah Wagner Inject “A New Way of Play” Into Architectural Pedagogy

Graduates Alexandre Beaudouin-Mackay & Sarah Wagner take architectural pedagogy in a direction driven by play.

July 20, 2020
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A Nixon Deepfake, a ‘Moon Disaster’ Speech and an Information Ecosystem at Risk

A new video re-creates a history that never happened, showing the power of AI-generated media

July 20, 2020
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Turning Grief for a Hidden Past into a Healing Space

The University of Virginia in Charlottesville, designed by Thomas Jefferson, was built by enslaved people. The Memorial to Enslaved Laborers acknowledges that long-suppressed history.

August 16, 2020
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Michael Rakowitz’s Art of Return

Through playful, outraged interventions, a sculptor seeks to reclaim a lost Iraq.

August 17, 2020
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Arts Institutions in a New Era of Social Imagination

Over the past weeks, art museums have been opening their doors to an entirely changed world.

August 31, 2020
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Seven New Works and More In Development from Guerilla Opera Composers

The Coronavirus emergency left the landscape for the arts gloomy, but Guerilla Opera’s thirteenth season had successes which propelled the company into a new era of female leadership and artistry.

September 4, 2020
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MIT Music and Theater Arts announce 3rd annual Playwrights Lab

MIT Music and Theater Arts announce 3rd annual Playwrights Lab

September 17, 2020
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Five things to do online and in person, Sept. 21-27

Watch the MTA Playwrights Lab—a collaboration between MIT students and professional theater artists—stage performance readings featuring the work of student writers.

September 18, 2020
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The Art World Goes Virtual This Fall With Open Studios And Workshops

Just a few months ago, an art opening involved a jam-packed room of patrons standing shoulder-to-shoulder in a gallery, nibbling on crudités with one hand while balancing a glass of wine in the other.

September 25, 2020
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Artist Jill Magid Etched a Phrase Onto 120,000 US Pennies That Reflects Society’s Greater Concern for Financial Bodies Than Human Ones

The artist delivered her rolls of pennies to New York City bodegas.

October 14, 2020
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The MTA Playwrights Lab turned a hurdle into a unique opportunity for its students and recent alumni

Going online expanded the Lab’s access to theater professionals, giving students and recent alumni a chance to learn new skills, refine their plays — and work with high-caliber actors and directors When Covid-19 forced the MIT campus to shut down … Continued

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Experts Discuss the ‘Architecture of Democracy’ in Lecture Hosted by Harvard and MIT

Architects and academic experts discussed the connection between architecture and democracy in a virtual lecture co-hosted by the Harvard and MIT’s Departments of Architecture Wednesday.

October 29, 2020
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Viral Music

Chi-Yua Yu and Markus J. Buehler from MIT created a computer program that transforms viral proteins into music!

November 13, 2020
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Pivotal architectural texts digitised by MIT

MIT Press has launched an eBook collection of previously undigitised classic architecture and urban studies publications which have been requested by the public for years.

January 4, 2021
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TECHNOLOGY AND THE FLESH

In the early 1980s, the painter, sculptor, and all-around technological savant Tishan Hsu ’73, MAR ’75 landed a night job as a “word processor” at a Wall Street law firm.

December 1, 2020
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An Artist for the Dystopian Age

For decades, Tishan Hsu ’73, MAR ’75 has explored the ever more salient relationship between technology and the human body.

January 7, 2021
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How #ArtistSupportPledge Took the Artworld by Storm

British painter Matthew Burrows on creating an alternative economy for artists under lockdown

January 14, 2021
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In The Lab: A Conversation with Ken Urban

An Interview With Ken Urban By Hayley Finn

January 19, 2021

Collaborations with artists go beyond communicating the science

Scientists and artists are working together as never before, finds a Nature poll. Both sides need to invest time, and embrace surprise and challenge.

February 24, 2021
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10 things to do in Boston this weekend

BosTen is your weekly guide to events and cool happenings in and around Boston.

March 11, 2021
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Art is a bridge ‘between facts and feelings’ for MIT’s Ekene Ijeoma

Artist Ekene Ijeoma finds the humanity in data points.

March 25, 2021
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A Portrait of U.S. Linguistic Diversity, in Sound and Sign

The artist Ekene Ijeoma has been working on “A Counting,” an art project involving numbers and language, for more than a year. Now, a sign language edition has begun.

March 25, 2021
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MIT Music And Theater Arts Presents A Crowdsourced Virtual Performance COLLISION SHOP

The production emerged in response to a call for intimate video self-portraits and is a meditation on the need for human connection and search for joy.

March 31, 2021
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MATTHEW RITCHIE’S THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: COLOR CONFINEMENT FILM PREMIERES APRIL 6

A multi-part transmedia artwork exploring the many dimensions of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

April 8, 2021
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Scientists Turn Spider Webs Into Spider Harps To Hear Spider ‘Voices’

Spiders don’t have great eyesight.

April 11, 2021
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Ekene Ijeoma’s New ‘Breathing Pavilion’ Installation in Brooklyn is a Meditative Oasis

The inflatable pillars invite visitors to breathe along with its pulsing lights.

April 11, 2021
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Scientists Turned Spiderwebs Into Music, And It’s Hauntingly Beautiful

Spiders rely on the vibrations in their webs to perceive their environment, and now we can hear their mysterious music.

April 12, 2021

Listen to the music of a spider’s web. Tell me what do you hear?

It is an eerie, foreboding, reverberating tune, enough to send a tingle down your spine.

April 13, 2021
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MIT scientists translated spider webs into music. It could help us talk to them

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have turned spider webs into music — creating an eerie soundtrack that could help them better understand how the arachnids spin their complex creations and even how they communicate.

April 13, 2021
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Calendar, April 20: Matthew Ritchie’s The Invisible College: Color Confinement

Calendar mention with video footage of Ritchie’s film.

April 16 2021
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ARTnews in Brief: François Ghebaly To Open New York Space—and More from April 29, 2021

The Los Angeles–based gallery François Ghebaly will open its first space in New York on May 7. Located at 389 Grand Street on the Lower East Side, the gallery’s inaugural exhibition in New York, titled “The Future in Present Tense,” will feature … Continued

April 26, 2021
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The pandemic has “re-imagined how we can exhibit” says Venice Architecture Biennale curator Hashim Sarkis

Installing the Venice Architecture Biennale during the pandemic forced participating architects to work more collaboratively, according to Hashim Sarkis.

May 19, 2022
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Hashim Sarkis discusses staging an international biennale in ‘interesting times’

The 17th Venice Architecture Biennale operates on several different registers, requiring the visitor to keep pace with thematic leaps and intellectual vaults, analytical flybys, and prescriptive tunneling. Asking the question “How will we live together?”

May 5, 2021
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The pandemic has “re-imagined how we can exhibit” says Venice Architecture Biennale curator Hashim Sarkis

The Venice Architecture Biennale opens this week. Installing it during the pandemic has forced participants to work in a more collaborative and sustainable way in line with the event’s key themes, according to curator Hashim Sarkis.

May 19. 2021
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The Venice Biennale, Twice Delayed, Takes On New Relevance

A celebration of architecture focuses on how, together, we can live now.

May 20,2021
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Venice Biennale curator Hashim Sarkis: ‘We are exploring the same subjects that led to the pandemic’

The curator of Venice Biennale of Architecture says this year’s event examines our relationship with the planet and each other

May 21, 2021
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The Art of Mathematics in Chalk

A photography project reveals the allure of equations in mathematicians’ blackboard work

May 31, 2021
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Survivance: Siren Songs

We humans evolved to survive in a world with specific types of matter and energy; our particular hominid ancestors thrived by favoring interpretation over instinct.

June 21, 2021
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Survivance: Wet-on-Wet

Wet-on-Wet (2021) is a sonic toolkit for amplifying the waves of emotive molecules in domestic waters inspired by experimentalist Masaru Emoto’s ideas about water as a “blueprint for our reality,” and his work on how different emotional energies and vibrations can … Continued

June 21, 2021
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Caveh Zahedi Has So Many Stories to Tell

Each episode is nonetheless tightly crafted, down to the music that plays at the beginning. On recent episodes, Zahedi’s longtime friend, the composer Evan Ziporyn, has begun composing a short, distinct piece of opening music for each episode.

June 29, 2021
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Boston Public Radio Full Show: 6/30/21

Jonathan Gruber explained the economics behind the music industry as more music venues reopen for live shows. He also talked about the lack of revenue musicians gain from streaming services and album releases. Gruber is the Ford Professor of Economics at … Continued

June 30, 2021
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Tomashi Jackson Harvests Histories From the Land of Plenty

For “The Land Claim” at the Parrish Art Museum, she digs deep into the suppressed stories of communities of color in the Hamptons.

July 8, 2021
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NASA’s TESS Tunes Into an Unprecedented All-Sky “Symphony” of Pulsating Red Giant Stars

Using observations from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have identified an unprecedented collection of pulsating red giant stars all across the sky.

August 7, 2021
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What Does It Mean for a Whole Nation to Become Uninhabitable?

Devi Lockwood ’19 spent five years traveling the globe talking to people about changes they were seeing to their local water and climates. Here are some of the stories she heard.

August 13, 2021
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Transformative truth-telling at MIT Open Documentary Lab

A man’s ghostly voice speak-sings from the black screen: “Rock-a-bye baby, on the treetops …”

August 31, 2021
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CINDY JI HYE KIM

Trained as an illustrator at the Rhode Island School of Design (2013), Cindy Ji Hye Kim came to painting a few years later, during her MFA at Yale University School of Art (2016).

September 7, 2021
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5 Ways Ballet Prepared Me for My Engineering Career

People often ask me about my ballet background because it seems like strange preparation for an engineering career. To me it’s not peculiar at all. Ballet taught me many of the skills I use to excel in both the classroom … Continued

September 10, 2021
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New InnovationHQ open to students

MIT’s new InnovationHQ (iHQ) — five newly renovated floors in E38 (Site 4) — opened in early September. The space, encompassing over 25,000 square feet of space “for innovation and entrepreneurship activities”… According to the iHQ website, the building is … Continued

Sep. 23, 2021
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Family Weekend Concert: a wonderful night for music aficionados

Last Friday, MIT Wind Ensemble (MITWE), MIT Jazz Ensemble, and MIT Vocal Jazz Ensemble came together in Kresge Auditorium for the first time in a year and a half to perform their annual Family Weekend Concert. The overwhelming theme was … Continued

Nov. 3, 2021
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Tree Clocks: an interactive rhythm and language work

Code Cypher, hosted by CAST Visiting Artist and Grammy-winning rapper Lupe Fiasco and Professor Nick Montfort, invited MIT students to develop computational artworks that play with language and rhythm… Our interactive rhythm and poetry performance centered around multiple tree trunk rings as … Continued

Nov 4, 2021
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MIT Mocha Moves hosted the Revive the Arts (RTA) Dance Showcase

MIT Mocha Moves hosted the Revive the Arts (RTA) dance showcase on Nov. 5 and featured a variety of other MIT dance groups.

Nov. 9, 2021
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10 Human Innovations Inspired by Spiders

If you haven’t heard it yet, people have now used the construction of spider webs to create music with 3-D video, and it’s as eerie as you would imagine it to be! Have a listen. Spider Canvas was a collaborative … Continued

Nov 10, 2021
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Why the arts and humanities are critical to the future of tech

In the 2022 edition of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, two institutions renowned for science and technology topped the list for arts and humanities.These institutions recognize that we need a new generation of critical thinkers to guide us … Continued

Nov 3, 2021
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An Artist Who Disavows the Possibility of Individual Agency

According to Agnieszka Kurant, everything we make — from the systems that oppress us to the inventions that transform us — is the result of a collective.

Nov. 14, 2021
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Anicka Yi fills Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall with science, scent and intrigue

The work of the Korean-American artist Anicka Yi takes in science, microbial activity and air-carried markers of identity, amongst other things. The perfect pick, then, for Tate Modern’s first Turbine Hall commission (officially the ‘Hyundai Commission’) since Covid closed operations.

Oct 11, 2021
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Family Weekend Concert: a wonderful night for music aficionados

Last Friday, MIT Wind Ensemble (MITWE), MIT Jazz Ensemble, and MIT Vocal Jazz Ensemble came together in Kresge Auditorium for the first time in a year and a half to perform their annual Family Weekend Concert…. the excitement from the … Continued

Nov. 3, 2021
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Caroline A. Jones on the art of Tauba Auerbach

Tauba Auerbach’s uncompromisingly abstract art has likewise always been premised on inducing a visceral reaction to abstruse ideas—from chirality to rotational symmetry to tetrachromacy and quantum states. The artist’s tacit, muscular ways of knowing and mark-making are what initially draw … Continued

Nov. 30, 2021
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MACHOVER Death and the Powers

Tod Machover’s science-fiction opera about robots and humans, set to a libretto by Robert Pinsky, was designed with a spectacular visual apparatus in mind, and after productions in Monte Carlo, Boston and Chicago, was nominated for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize. … Continued

Jan 3, 2022
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Interviews: Sreshta Rit Premnath

Sreshta Rit Premnath on finding hope at the margins and two related exhibitions, both titled “Grave/Grove” on view at the MIT List Visual Arts Center and Cincinnati’s Contemporary Arts Center.

Jan 17, 2022
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Sreshta Rit Premnath’s Meditations on Makeshift Sites

At MIT List Visual Arts Center, the artist presents minimalist assemblages that reflect critically on the spaces and circumstances of the disenfranchised.

Jan 18, 2022
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T-Serai project awarded Holcim Award

J-WEL funded project reimagines refugee shelter design with dignity, cultural sensitivity, and sustainability.

Jan 19, 2022
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Armitage Gone! Dance Presents A PANDEMIC NOTEBOOK at New York Live Arts

Internationally acclaimed choreographer and “punk ballerina” Karole Armitage—currently a MIT Media Lab Directors Fellow—presents A Pandemic Notebook, a collection of world premieres with her company Armitage Gone! Dance, March 16-19, at New York Live Arts.

Jan. 18, 2022
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Merging Design, Tech, and Cognitive Science at MIT

Senior Ibuki Iwasaki double majors in art and design and in computation and cognition. “Design most definitely involves aspects of both humanities and STEM,” she says.

Jan. 21, 2022
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MIT Hayden Memorial Library by Kennedy & Violich Architecture

Sheila Kennedy, MIT architecture professor and principal at KVA, says the renovation has thoroughly transformed “a book barn without charm.” Now, when you enter, you find that the place has been radically altered.

Feb. 1, 2022

Renée Green by Gloria Sutton

On the occasion of Inevitable Distances, a two-venue retrospective in Berlin, Green traces the serial forms and “ongoingness” in her research-driven, visionary films and installations.

Feb. 3, 2022
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The Art World’s Amazing Spider Man

Tomás Saraceno’s creations, including those on view at a new exhibition at the Shed, lie at the intersection of sculpture, ecology and futuristic experimentation.

Feb. 7, 2022
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2021 Jonathan Larson Grant Recipients Announced

Grant recipient Laura Grill Jaye is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, improviser, educator, performer, and music director. She is half of the musical-writing duo “Grill and Chowder” with Shayok Misha Chowdhury.

Feb. 11, 2022
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El sonido de una puesta de sol y de cualquier otra cosa

Una nueva y llamativa herramienta digital permite convertir en sonido casi todo, desde datos a dibujos.

Feb 11, 2022
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A Syrian-Born Scholar Reflects on Arab Efforts to Preserve Islamic Architecture

Nasser Rabbat leads the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He applauds architectural preservation efforts but sees flaws in some plans.

Feb 20, 2022
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What does neuroscience-inspired art look like?

For Joshua Sariñana, who’s always seen science, communication, and the arts as intertwined, “The Poetry of Science” is a chance to demonstrate that to the public and perhaps inspire the next generation.

Feb 23, 2022
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Theater Review: “Young Nerds of Color” — Making the Invisible Visible

Young Nerds of Color feels like a bit of an experiment, and it is the kind of creative research that we should hope will continue.

Feb 26, 2022
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Music from our material world

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are taking a more fundamental approach, exploring the music of the building blocks of life and how they interact in harmonious ways.

Mar 2022
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Tomás Saraceno: Particular Matter(s)

This show is a marvel of art and science in which the artist literally draws you into his web to share his love of spiders, even allowing you to experience what it is like being one.

Mar 16, 2022
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12 art exhibits worth catching this spring

‘Raymond Boisjoly: The Explanatory Void’ and ‘Matthew Angelo Harrison: Robota’ at MIT List Visual Center for the Arts.

Mar 16, 2022
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Classical Music’s Iron Curtain

Two musicologists discuss national identity in the performing arts and the politics of blacklisting sparked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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Scientific research as an art. Or vice versa!

The emergence of the term science art is also associated with the name of Joe Davis, a biologist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Feb 22, 2022
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Multispecies Space Witch: An Interview with Agnes Meyer-Brandis.

Jan 25, 2022
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Work inspired by the Gardner Museum, a children’s book set in a garden, and word of a new book series from MIT

The MIT Press and Brown University Library announced the launch of “On Seeing,” a book series “committed to centering underrepresented perspectives in visual culture,”

Feb 17, 2022
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From ocean waves to sound waves

Composer Nina C. Young is working on The Glow that Illuminates, The Glare that Obscures for the American Brass Quintet. The music is paired with a 50-minute immersive audiovisual installation using wave field synthesis, which create 3D audio holograms.

Feb 23, 2022
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A trio of firsts for Women’s History Month includes architect, educator and councillor

Throughout Cambridge’s history, women have led the charge in creating change, progress and growth for the city… In 1888, Lois Lilley Howe entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s school of architecture and took the two-year Partial Architecture course.

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“ROBOTA” EXHIBIT EXPLORES LABOR, TECHNOLOGY, AND CULTURAL HERITAGE

An exhibition called “Robota,” by artist Matthew Angelo Harrison, has gone up at MIT and will be displayed there until July 24. Harrison creates sculptures and installations, exploring the themes of colonialism, capitalism, and racism, “while subtly addressing the aspects of … Continued

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What it means to be counted: MIT art project aims to capture Ogden’s vocal diversity

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, artist Ekene Ijeoma and his group Poetic Justice at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology began thinking about potential miscounts in the U.S census.

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Everyone Reunited at the Art Production Fund Gala Honoring Sanford Biggers

Harlem-based artist Sanford Biggers has most recently been appointed the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. visiting professor and scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, honored by the Savannah College of Art & Design with the deFINE Art Award, and … Continued

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MIT holds onto number one in the 2022 QS World University Rankings of top architecture schools

For a third consecutive year, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and its Hashim Sarkis-led School of Architecture and Planning has claimed the number one spot.

April 11, 2022
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MIT announces Morningside Academy for Design, to be launched this fall

School of Architecture and Planning and design academy will be housed in newly-renovated Metropolitan Storage Warehouse in September 2022, supported by a $100 million gift from The Morningside Foundation.

April 14, 2022
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When Classical Music Was an Alibi

“The idea that musicians and their work are apolitical flourished after World War II, in part thanks to the process of denazification,” wrote Emily Richmond Pollock and Kira Thurman.

April 19, 2022
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MIT to Present IT MUST BE NOW! Featuring 125 Performers of World Premiere Compositions

Massachusetts Institute of Technology has announced It Must Be Now!, a unique immersive music and multimedia event featuring the world premieres of newly commissioned work of three leading jazz artists of our time.

April 29, 2022
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Things to do around Boston this weekend and beyond

Dr. Frederick Harris Jr.’s IMBN! Initiative presents a massive music and multimedia event featuring works exploring themes of racial and social justice by leading jazz artists Terri Lyne Carrington, Braxton Cook, and Sean Jones.

May 5, 2022
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“Visualizing the Proton” – Physicists’ Innovative Animation Depicts the Subatomic World in a New Way

MIT professor of physics Richard Milner, Jefferson Laboratory physicists Rolf Ent and Rik Yoshida, MIT documentary filmmakers Chris Boebel and Joe McMaster, and Sputnik Animation’s James LaPlante have teamed up to depict the subatomic world in a new way.

May 9, 2022
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‘Goodbye to my dreams of being an artist’: Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s Reflections on Art and Idealism

Starting from the most humble of beginnings, Santiago Ramón y Cajal was to become not only Spain’s most distinguished scientist but also, arguably, the founder of the discipline we now know as neuroscience.

May 9, 2022
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MIT’s ‘It Must Be Now!’ advances social justice through music and media

Massachusetts Institute of Technology presented an immersive music and multimedia event with themes of racial injustice and healing.

May 12, 2022
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Why Scientists Are Turning Molecules Into Music

Markus Buehler, a materials engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and also a musician and composer, believes the crossover between molecules and music goes even further than “music therapy.” He says we could potentially use music to make new … Continued

May 17, 2022
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Volunteer Collective Teams Up to Help Ukrainian Design Professionals

To support the large community of design professionals, many of whom have had their lives uprooted by the conflict, a team of architects based in Boston has formed Hire Ukrainian Designers.

May 17, 2022
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Lupe Fiasco To Teach Rap At MIT

Earlier this week, Lupe Fiasco announced via social media that he is going to be teaching rap at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

May 20, 2022
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A Life Worth Living

Azra Akšamija explores the complex role of culture in war and other crises.

May 24, 2022
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Lupe Fiasco is Going to be Teaching a Class at MIT

Lupe Fiasco is trading backpack rap for, well, just backpacks. The Food & Liquor MC has been announced as part of MIT’s MLK Visiting Professor Program for the 2022-23 academic year.

May 21, 2022
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Lupe Fiasco Announces New Teaching Job at MIT

Lupe Fiasco is graduating from Chicago rhyme-slinger to MIT professor, announcing Friday that he’ll be teaching at the prestigious school.

May 23, 2022
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Grammy-winning musician Lupe Fiasco to teach rap at MIT next spring

Rapper and 12-time Grammy nominee Lupe Fiasco has been appointed to the 2022-23 MLK Visiting Professors and Scholars Program at MIT.

May 25, 2022
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It Must Be Now! is a call for change

MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble, MIT Wind Ensemble, MIT Vocal Jazz Ensemble, and some special guests came together to perform It Must Be Now! (IMBN!), a two-year endeavor combining music, spoken word, and interpretive dance.

May 26, 2022
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Written half a century ago, a children’s book on Beethoven finds a publisher

“He had to overcome so many obstacles in his life, and yet that didn’t deter him from doing what he wanted to do,” Michael Gruenbaum said of composer Ludwig van Beethoven.

May 25, 2022
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Construction to revamp Metropolitan Warehouse commences

Construction activities are scheduled to begin for the redevelopment of the Metropolitan (Met) Warehouse (Building W41) in June.

June 9, 2022
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11 art exhibits to heat up your summer

When the heat is on, some of us go to the beach, others retreat to air-conditioned movie theatres, and a few smart souls seek out the cool quiet of a museum.

June 13, 2022
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XR filmmaker tackles Caribbean land ownership issues

Creative technologist preps trio of film and virtual reality documentaries on Barbuda.

May 11, 2022
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Power and prototypes: Matthew Angelo Harrison at MIT List Visual Arts Center

The Detroit-based artist positions organized labor and workers’ rights as entombed relics, victims of post-industrial economy — and leaves little room for discussion.

June 9, 2022
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A Reinvention of MIT’s Campus

Spaces for learning, living, discovering, and making were created and renewed during the MIT Campaign for a Better World.

June 14, 2022
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Anjunabeats’ Nourey Flights Climate Change by Blending MIT Research and Music

ourey discusses all things sustainability, climate change, and being eco-conscious at your next festival ahead of Above & Beyond’s 2022 Group Therapy Weekender.

July 21, 2022
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Under Amy Brand, MIT Press celebrates 60 years

Since 2015, director and publisher of the MIT Press Amy Brand has presided over one of the largest university presses in the world, which marks its 60th anniversary this month.

June 8, 2022
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RUEHR ‘Icarus’ and other chamber music

Icarus (2018) is a tone poem inspired by the famous Greek legend of the hero’s ill-fated flight too close to the sun. A multilayered work expressively, it focuses primarily on the euphoria of building the wings and initial flight, but … Continued

June 9, 2022
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Art & Market: Irmandy Wickasono

Irmandy Wicaksono, a PhD Candidate in Media Arts and Sciences from Indonesia is featured by Art & Market.

June 10, 2022
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USA News Hub: Promesa Board Game

A new board game from Mikael Jakobsson and Rosa Colón Guerra that highlights the colonized experience in Puerto Rico.  

June 11, 2022
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24HTECH: A new board game highlights the colonized experience

Departing from games that glorify European conquest, “Promesa” helps players understand Puerto Rico as a modern-day colony.

June 10, 2022
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Making art through computation

Master’s student Chelsi Cocking combines her love for computer science and design in her research and outreach efforts at the Media Lab.

June 26, 2022
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Artist Xin Liu Lets Science-Backed Absurdity Take the Wheel

The artist and MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative Arts curator makes work that explores why the seemingly impossible is possible.

June 28, 2022
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MIT’s new design hub

Supported by a $100 million founding gift, the Morningside Academy for Design is expected to open in the fall.

June 29, 2022
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MLK Visiting Scholar Lupe Fiasco Issues “AUTOBOTO”

MLK Visiting Scholar for 2022-2023 at MIT Lupe Fiasco releases new album.

July 8, 2022
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Boston has the Freedom Trail. How about an Innovation Trail?

The city has been a hub of discovery and scientific breakthroughs for four centuries. A walking tour seeks to tell that story.

July 3, 2022
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Lupe Fiasco Is On To His Next Chapter

Lupe Fiasco spoke with Okayplayer about his new album Drill Music in Zion, his forthcoming MIT course, rappers catching RICO cases, his friendship with Virgil Abloh, and more.

July 5, 2022
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Creating a Gleaming New Gateway at MIT

Weiss/Manfredi’s 314 Main Street is one of several bustling new buildings on the east edge of the legendary campus forming a new center of energy.

July 29, 2022
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Bayreuther Festspiele: Wagner für alle

Die Bayreuther Festspiele gelten international als elitäres Festival für ein zahlungskräftiges Publikum. Das soll sich ändern; jetzt kann man Wagners Musik ganz leger auch auf der Picknickdecke genießen.

Aug 3, 2022
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IMMENSE JOY by Anna Kohler to be Presented at The Tank in September

Anna Kohler weaves a multifaceted narrative fabric out of images, sounds, text, and expressive movement, commenting on the human condition.

Aug. 04, 2022
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Bayreuther Festspiele holen Dirigenten Gatti und Bychkov

Die Bayreuther Festspiele holen in den kommenden Jahren die renommierten Dirigenten Semyon Bychkov und Daniele Gatti auf den Grünen Hügel. Bychkov soll 2024 eine Neuinszenierung von «Tristan und Isolde» dirigieren, Gatti 2025 die «Meistersinger von Nürnberg».

Aug 31, 2022

You’ll need to solve Puerto Rico’s debt crisis to win this new board game

With its unconventional premise and solutions-geared gameplay, Promesa stands out from other options already on the market.

Sep 2, 2022
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5 Latinas in Architecture on Their Career Journeys and What They Hope to See Next

Five Latinas in the architecture field about their journeys, inspirations, and hopes for the future — especially when it comes to increasing the number of Latinas in the industry. While these conversations happened during a celebratory month, they’re also a … Continued

Sep 27, 2022
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Members of the MIT community browse the exhibits at a preview opening of the new MIT Museum, Friday.

Members of the MIT community browse the exhibits at a preview opening of the new MIT Museum.

Sep 28, 2022
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MIT Museum Opening Oct. 2

The MIT Museum, which has been closed since 2020, reopens this weekend at a new location in Cambridge’s Kendall Square, which Bowen describes as being an apt space “in the heart of innovation.” The musem’s three-story building also allows for … Continued

Sep 29, 2022

A GOAT goes to MIT

Rap legend Lupe Fiasco adds “Visiting MLK Scholar” to his stacked resume.

Sep 30, 2022
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Matthew Ritchie

For compelling proof that painting is, in fact, alive and thriving in the age of A.I., see “The Garden in the Machine,” Matthew Ritchie’s new show at the James Cohan gallery (through Oct. 15).

Sep 30, 2022
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On exhibit: decades of insights and inventions

New MIT Museum bridges science and art, and inspires of the possible.

Oct 2, 2022

ART OR SOUND | CHRISTINE SUN KIM’S OWNERSHIP OF SOUND

The artist Chistine Sun Kim (born 1980) capitalises the word “Deaf” to render it into a proper noun and emphasise its “collective cultural identification” and “subjective consciousness” – much like national identity.

Oct 2, 2022
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A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from Cambridge Science Festival to Honk! fest

Cambridge Science Festival, running all day through Sunday mainly in the festival zone of the Kendall/MIT Open Space – next to the Kendall Square red line T stop and MIT – and in museums and other select locations around town.

Oct 2, 2022

MIT Appoints Janet Echelman Distinguished Visiting Artist

Echelman’s time at MIT will be dedicated to the research and development of new work, shaped in collaboration with MIT faculty, students and researchers across the Institute, in fields that may range from fine art, architecture, and urban design, to … Continued

Oct 03, 2022

Höweler + Yoon “turn MIT inside out” in newly reopened and relocated MIT Museum

Cutting-edge technology and research is on display alongside flexible and transparent architecture and design at the newly relocated and reopened MIT Museum.

Oct 3, 2022

MIT Appoints Janet Echelman Distinguished Visiting Artist

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)  announced visual artist Janet Echelman as a 2022-23 Distinguished Visiting Artist at MIT.

Oct 4, 2022

Cambridge welcomes back the MIT Museum

This museum is extremely versatile and welcoming to visitors of all ages. It is interesting and eye opening, even for those that are not science-oriented. The unique use of hands-on and auditory elements makes this Cambridge gallery viewer-friendly and engaging, … Continued

Oct 4, 2022

10 things to do in Boston this holiday weekend

On Saturday, the two festivals will present “Science + Fashion,” an all-day exhibit at the Kendall/MIT Open Space with shows and discussions featuring high-tech fashion like smart clothing and advanced fabrics.

Oct 5, 2022
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MIT Museum reopens in Kendall Square

The MIT Museum officially reopened to the public Monday, Oct. 2. The museum is housed at 314 Main Street in Kendall Square, near the MBTA Kendall/MIT Red Line station and across from the MIT Welcome Center.

Oct. 5, 2022

Le MIT Museum fait peau neuve

Après deux années de fermeture, le musée a rouvert ses portes le 2 octobre au sein d’un bâtiment de 5 000 m2 situé dans un autre emplacement du campus, sur Kendall Square.

Oct 5, 2022
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Ever wanted to see the Northern Lights? ‘Borealis’ illuminates the Cambridge Science Festival.

An immersive, multisensory installation from Swiss artist Dan Acher is coming to the Boston area, reimagining the aurora borealis with a three-hour light and sound show. The exhibit is being held at the MIT Open Space Oct. 6-9, and is … Continued

Oct 6, 2022
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5 things to do this weekend, including a Life Magazine exhibit and an Indigenous Peoples Day film screening

The annual Cambridge Science Festival is back this week and continues through Sunday. The festival is modeled after large film and art festivals and offers over 250 events.

Oct 6, 2022
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A local science festival, a beer week in San Diego, and crafts across Maine: Travel news you can use.

Who says science is boring? Certainly not the organizers of the Cambridge Science Festival. Modeled on art, music, and movie festivals, the annual, weeklong, multicultural event is designed to make science accessible, interactive, and fun by showcasing the leading edge in fields of science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM).

Sep 18, 2022
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MIT Museum prepares for reopening in Kendall, going straight into reimagined Science Festival

The MIT Museum reopens Oct. 2 after a Covid lockdown that merged into an expected shutdown to relocate to a new home on the East Campus, a showpiece Kendall Square location at 314 Main St.

Sep 8, 2022
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10 must-see museum shows from Massachusetts to Maine

With the new MIT Museum now open, “Gestural Engineering” returns, to the relief of many, though not quite as before. The new exhibition pairs Ganson’s work with a piece by Andy Cavatorta, a kindred spirit of a sculptor who works with sound and robotics and has created eclectic instruments for … Continued

Oct 14, 2022
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Welcome to the MIT Museum’s ‘spiffy’ new digs in Kendall Square

The MIT Museum officially opened its new quarters on Oct. 2. After half a century on the edge of Central Square, it’s moved to the heart of Kendall Square. The museum’s director, John Durant, talks about the new location and … Continued

Oct 16, 2022
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Welcome to the MIT Museum’s ‘spiffy’ new digs in Kendall Square

Director John Durant on the new location and what makes the institution a special place.

Oct 16, 2022

The MIT Museum with John Durant

The amazing MIT Museum has just opened its doors in its brand new location in Cambridge, Massachusetts. John Durant, the director of the museum, sits down with unPlanned to tell us all about it.

Oct 18, 2022
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Concert Review: Tod Machover’s “Brain, Body + Breath” at the MIT Museum

Brain, Body + Breath celebrated Tod Machover’s compositions and the MIT Media Lab team as well as the opening of the newly renovated MIT Museum. The evening included three pieces presented in public for the very first time. These compositions … Continued

Oct 19, 2022
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MIT unveils inaugural interdisciplinary Morningside Academy for Design fellows

The MIT Morningside Academy of Design has unveiled their inaugural cohort of fellows. The fourteen graduate students, currently enrolled in master’s or doctoral programs across MIT, will become the first fellows for the new interdisciplinary center housed within the MIT School of Architecture … Continued

Oct 19, 2022
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Portraits of Black life in the South

Photographer Baldwin Lee ’72 traversed the American South over seven years in the 1980s, documenting scenes that caught his eye. Here’s a glimpse of what he saw—and his thoughts on why these scenes stopped him.

Oct 25, 2022

The 9 most prestigious universities in the world to study Performing & Dramatic Arts

The Center for Art, Science and Technology’s (CAST) Artist-in-Residence Program, invites renowned artists to MIT to collaborate with students in classes, seminars, workshops, and productions, which complements the classes offered by MIT’s renowned faculty and staff.

Oct 27, 2022

If Any Museum Was Going To Go Heavy On Tech, It Would Be MIT’s

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is widely regarded as attracting many of the brightest young minds in the tech sector, so it makes sense that the school’s museum is filled with and driven by screens, interactive features and AI-based software.

Oct 27, 2022
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Lupe Fiasco on his latest challenge: teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Recently, Fiasco (Wasalu Jaco) began a new challenge that he can add to his long résumé: an appointment as a Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Nov 1, 2022
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Crafting a New Platform for Cosplay

As the startup continued to gain traction, Kaye and Lowell began pitching Cosmosii to conventiongoers and investors alike. The pair visited the New York Comic Con, Fan Expo Boston, and many other comic-cons and cosplay gatherings to demo the new … Continued

Oct 18, 2022
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Guerilla Opera Introduces the GUERILLA PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL For 16th Season

The world premiere of The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage is set for February of 2023 with stage direction by Tina Mitchell and is supported by The Center for Art, Science & Technology at MIT.

Nov 7, 2022

Höweler + Yoon shares highlights from an impressive crop of new works

The new MIT Museum, which opened on October 2, is adjacent to the MBTA Red Line’s Kendall Square subway station, making it a de facto eastern gateway to MIT’s campus.

Nov 14, 2022

Video: Reimagining of ‘Ballet des Porcelaines’ probes the complex cultural work behind the making of porcelain

Reimagined “Ballet des Porcelaines” premiered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2021. The ballet has since traveled to leading cultural institutions in the United States and Europe, with a recent staging occurring at the MIT Center for Art, Science … Continued

Nov 16, 2022
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Open Studio: The MIT Museum reopens in Cambridge’s tech hub

The reimagined MIT Museum looks at all the advances in technology and their positive — and controversial — effects on society, from genetic engineering to the increasing role that artificial intelligence is playing in art and media.

Nov 18, 2022

MIT’s new museum demystifies the world’s most complex technologies

The compelling and sometimes worrying territory where new technologies intersect with society is the overarching subject matter of the MIT Museum, which has just undergone a complete redesign for its new purpose-built space in Cambridge.

Nov 21, 2022
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Looking back at an experiment in looking and learning at MIT

The MIT Museum’s ‘To Look and Learn: The Creative Photography Laboratory at MIT’ documents a varied and vital visual era at the institute.

Nov 22, 2022
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Sensitive stomach? Then urine trouble if you see ‘Symbionts’ at MIT List Visual Arts Center.

This exhibition of ‘bio art’ features works made of distilled pee and ‘fired mammalian dung glazed in breastmilk,’ among other substances and secretions.

Nov 30, 2022

Azza El Siddique: In the place of annihilation, where all the past was present and returned transformed

Azza El Siddique’s exhibition at MIT List Visual Arts Center is a treatise on scent and transformation. In the place of annihilation, where all the past was present and returned transformed proposes scent as a cultural signifier, an object of commerce, an invocation of memory, a lived experience, a historical artifact, … Continued

Dec 3, 2022

Asia’s 2022 Heroes Of Philanthropy

Annual list that highlights the region’s top philanthropists who have demonstrated a strong personal commitment to causes such as education and the environment includes Ronnie and Gerald Chan, The Hong Kong billionaire siblings in October gifted $100 million to the … Continued

Dec 5, 2022

Höweler + Yoon’s Redesigned MIT Museum Pays Homage to the Institution’s 50-Year History

The MIT Museum, dedicated to the history of invention and innovation that sprang from the university, used to be housed in a nondescript converted warehouse off campus. But now it has a prominent new home just off Kendall Square, the … Continued

Dec 13, 2022

A Round-Up of New Design Monographs

The new MIT Museum is the latest project by Boston-based practice Höweler + Yoon. Their book’s exploration of recent work by the former Design Vanguard firm demonstrates how verification is an integral part of the design process, and how uncertainty … Continued

Dec 15, 2022
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‘How to make applesauce’: A photograph that made time stand still

Exploding with energy but perfectly still, Harold “Doc” Edgerton’s 1964 image of a .30-caliber bullet ripping through an apple showed an otherwise unseeable moment in captivating detail. The longtime Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor used it to illustrate a … Continued

Dec 18, 2022
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The MIT Morningside Academy for Design will create a hub for design education, research, and entrepreneurship on campus.

The interdisciplinary careers of its faculty directors, John Ochsendorf and Maria Yang ’91, offer a glimpse of the possibilities in store.

Dec 19, 2022
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New MIT Museum showcases latest scientific advancements

Artificial intelligence, robotics and gene sequencing are the stuff of headlines, science fiction and sometimes even our worst fears. It’s all on view at the new MIT Museum.

Jan 3, 2023

Welcome to the worst month of the year

Have a night at the museum with the MIT museum after dark. This month’s theme is ‘Making Memories,’ with dancing, games, and food and drink from local vendors.

Jan 9, 2023
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Classical music to keep us warm this winter

Guerilla is now associated with the MIT Center for Art, Science, and Technology (CAST) and this first collaboration sounds delicious.

Jan 11, 2023
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Janet Echelman’s memorable 2015 piece wins Boston Society for Architecture’s Harleston Parker Medal

Echelman’s 2015 sculpture “As If It Were Already Here” is the first ephemeral piece and artwork to win the Harleston Parker Medal

Jan 18, 2023
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Things to do around Boston this weekend and beyond

With the new MIT Museum now open, “Gestural Engineering” returns, to the relief of many, though not quite as before. The new exhibition pairs Ganson’s works — fewer than before, it should be noted — with a piece by Andy … Continued

Jan 19, 2023

〈マサチューセッツ工科大学内〉博物館が完成。過去およそ50年にわたりMITが世界に貢献した技術の数々を一挙に紹介する。展覧会デザインの第一人者〈スタジオ・ジョセフ〉によるインタラクティブな展示を通じ、テクノロジーの歴史と最先端に触れられる。展示資料の数は100万点以上。来場者がAIと詩を作るコーナーも。

Jan 21, 2023
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Dick Polich, Artists’ Ally in the Creation of Sculptures, Dies at 90

His cavernous Hudson Valley foundry helped Louise Bourgeois, Richard Serra, Jeff Koons and many others turn their large-scale visions into reality.

Jan 21, 2023
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Cosmic Cabbage and Lovage

MIT Music and Theater Arts, and Guerilla Opera present the world premiere of The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage.

Jan 27, 2023
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Eco-Artists Imagine a More Symbiotic Future

Excavations and revelations in Symbionts: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere at MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge

Jan 30, 2023

Symbionts: Contemporary Artists in the Biosphere

The resulting conversation highlighted two strains of thought: innovative progress via design and the revelation of what is already present in interspecies connections—whether mutual, parasitic, or commensal.

Feb 1, 2023
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5 things to do this weekend, including a May Stevens exhibit and the New England Farm & Fiber Festival

New York Times best-selling graphic novel “The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage,” by Sydney Padua, will take to the stage this weekend at MIT’s Building W97. Pulitzer Prize-winning librettist Royce Vavrek adapted the book, and the story tells the … Continued

Feb 2, 2023
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Things to do around Boston this weekend and beyond

Guerilla Opera presents the first staging of “The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage,” a new opera by composer Elena Ruehr and librettist Royce Vavrek based on Sydney Padua’s graphic novel of the same name…

Feeb 2, 2023
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‘Lovelace and Babbage’ opera is a sincerely funny alternate history

On Friday at the MIT Theater Arts building, Guerilla Opera presented the world premiere of “The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage,” an adaptation of Sydney Padua’s whimsical webcomic series. 

Feb 6, 2023
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Opera Review: Guerilla Opera’s “The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage”

This conceit sets in motion a wondrous blend of history and fantasy in Elena Ruehr’s The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, which Guerilla Opera presented in its first staged production at MIT’s new W97 Black Box Theater… Part rescue narrative … Continued

Feb 5, 2023
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Steampunk Met Multiverse

“The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace & Babbage,” a graphic novel by Sidney Padua, offers a playful take on the lives of Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage, two seminal figures in the world of computer science. The novel follows their journey … Continued

Feb 7, 2023
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Surfacing the Stories Hidden in Migration Data

A winner of Metropolis‘s second-annual Responsible Disruptors program, the Civic Data Design Lab at MIT explores new ways of looking at a humanitarian crisis.

Feb 9, 2023
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Mikéah Ernest Jennings, Prince of a Lost World

The actor, a fixture of New York’s experimental-theatre scene, did not “become” his characters; he stood, somehow, next to them, amused and delighted.

Feb 10, 2023
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Thirteen Art Exhibitions to Catch Around New England as Winter Turns into Spring

The Boston Art Review editors have selected the exhibitions that are piquing our interest all over New England this Winter.

Feb 13, 2023
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The Artists Questioning Nostalgia for East Germany’s Past

Contemporary works are casting a new light on sentimentality for Communism.

Jan 13, 2023
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Yiddish Dreams and Futures with Derek David

The Boston Festival for New Jewish Music presents Yiddish Dreams & Futures, a portrait concert of composer Derek David, featuring new vocal and chamber works that reflect upon Jewish identity and Yiddish culture in a contemporary landscape.

Feb 15, 2023

AI is taking music lessons. They’re not going great.

For composers like Tod Machover, the future of AI and music depends on collaboration with human creativity.

Feb 16, 2023
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A guided tour of the new MIT Museum

When the MIT Museum opened its new 56,000-square-foot space in Kendall Square last October, it was a time of public celebration. Today, it has reimagined the online experience for visitors, who can now browse through more than 156,000 items from … Continued

Feb 21, 2023
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Making a splash at Universal Studios Japan

At Universal Studios Japan, one of the world’s most popular theme parks, a single parade can run 45 minutes and involve more than 100 performers, a half-dozen floats, intricate choreography, and a huge all-out water fight with the audience. It’s … Continued

Feb 21, 2023

Microbes and Mushrooms Take a Star Turn in Bio Art Show at MIT

The term “bio art” is often linked to works from the late 1990s and early 2000s that involved the manipulation of genetic code. One might recall Eduardo Kac’s fluorescent bunny or the ear implanted in Stelarc’s arm. The curators of … Continued

Feb 23, 2023
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Why the definition of design might need a change

When we unpack its current meaning, we may find that we want—and need—to retool the word yet again.

Feb 22, 2023
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5 things to do this weekend, including a digital media art exhibit and a genre-bending dance performance

Artist Alison Nguyen’s first institutional solo exhibition opens this weekend at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, where she’s premiering “history as hypnosis.”

Feb 23, 2023

Spotify wants to understand your body on music

The company literally wants to see you sweat. By measuring electrodermal activity, they hope to understand the role of audio in users’ lives.

Feb 28. 2023
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Travelling exhibition From the Ground Up highlights unsung Black architects

The racial paradigm in the United States means that Black architects must continue to operate against the grain in order to get projects built, says From the Ground Up exhibition curator Hasaan Kirkland.

Feb 27, 2023
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A guide to the MIT List Visual Arts Center

An underappreciated gem of the Greater Boston art scene, make sure to add the MIT List Visual Arts Center to your list.

Feb 27, 2023
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A Gutted Pub at MIT has Been Brought to Life as a Cybernetic Performance Site

Inside the depths of the Frank Gehry-designed Stata Center on MIT’s campus, artist and architecture student Karyn Nakamura has MacGyvered an abandoned pub into an immersive space to host her performance Break My Body, Liberate My Soul.

Feb 28, 2023
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Kindred spirits: Museum exhibit connects artist Betye Saar and Isabella Stewart Gardner

The artist is drawn not just to spirituality, but to religions that are assembled from many different practices, mirroring in a way her own assembling of works from different items. For example, the Santeria religion fuses Yoruba beliefs with Roman … Continued

Mar 1, 2023
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Studio Benton on CNN Style

CNN visits Christopher Joshua Benton at Abu Dhabi Art.