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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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With György Kepes, photographs as experiments
From the start, photography has been binary.
March 28, 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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