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Leah Talatinian
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Michelangelo had the Medicis, Picasso had Gertrude Stein, and Pollock had Peggy Guggenheim. It is difficult to imagine art history without the support of its most celebrated patrons. For the artistic community at MIT, the vision and financial support of … Continued
CAMIT Member Ann Allen’s article, “Joan Jonas, the 2015 Venice Biennale, and the MIT Connection,” offers insights and serendipitous connections you won’t find in the mainstream press. Ann is a respected art historian and lecturer at Boston’s Museum of Fine … Continued
Professor Emerita Joan Jonas taught at MIT from 1998–2014, and her pioneering performance, video, and installation works from 1960 onward have secured her a place in art history’s firmament. Influence, however, is a more personal and earthly matter; it occurs … Continued
Johann Sebastian Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin are Shakespearian in their iconicity. Every serious performer must subject them to study, memorizing a monologue or, in this case, a movement, tracing and retracing the familiar, fleet-footed phrases in the … Continued
Award includes $100K prize, artist residency, gala and four public programs at MIT Architect David Adjaye OBE receives the 2016 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT. The $100K prize awarded at a gala in his honor also includes an … Continued
Professor Emerita Joan Jonas taught at MIT from 1998–2014, and her pioneering performance, video, and installation works from 1960 onward have secured her a place in art history’s firmament. Influence, however, is a more personal and earthly matter; it occurs … Continued
Anna Kohler (Senior Lecturer, MTA) spent a good portion of the Spring semester merrily knocking idols off pedestals. With comical derision, she toppled eminent poets Byron, Coleridge and Wordsworth, and took a couple of her own heroes, Bresson and Matisse, … Continued
The Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts is awarded annually to undergraduate and graduate students at MIT for excellence in a body of artistic work. The Schnitzer Prize was established in 1996 through an endowment from Harold … Continued
ACT Professor Azra Akšamija framed her Spring 2015 section of Foundations in Art, Design, and Spatial Practices (4.302), around the idea of Wunderkammer, or cabinets of curiosities. These wonder-rooms gained popularity in Europe in the sixteenth century and typically comprised encyclopedic … Continued
Professor Emerita Joan Jonas taught at MIT from 1998–2014, and her pioneering performance, video, and installation works from 1960 onward have secured her a place in art history’s firmament. Influence, however, is a more personal and earthly matter; it occurs … Continued
Professor Emerita Joan Jonas taught at MIT from 1998–2014, and her pioneering performance, video, and installation works from 1960 onward have secured her a place in art history’s firmament. Influence, however, is a more personal and earthly matter; it occurs … Continued
MIT Professor of Art History Caroline Jones’ article, “Event Horizon: Olafur Eliasson’s Raumexperimente,” appears in Olafur Eliasson: Contact, the catalogue for Eliasson’s recent exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, which was on view until February 23, 2015. Below … Continued
Council for the Arts Tickets Program provides MIT students with access to the Bard and other worthy entertainments Attending a production of one of Shakespeare’s plays is a superb reminder that the origin of the word audience is “to hear.” … Continued
Congratulations to Jie Qi of the Media Lab’s High-Low Tech Group, the first place winner of the Schnitzer Prize! Check out her interactive light painting, “Pu Gong Ying Tu (Dandelion Painting).”
