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The board of the Venice Biennale and President Paolo Baratta have chosen Hashim Sarkis as the curator of the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale.
Architect Hashim Sarkis, dean of architecture and planning at MIT, will be director for the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2020.
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.
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.
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.
It’s been a long journey from Machover’s expansive imagination to the stage.
What becomes a legend most?
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.
A star of M.I.T.’s Media Lab working in “material ecology,” she has intrigued Björk, Brad Pitt and the Cooper Hewitt.
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.
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.
This fall, cello soloist Maya Beiser and composer/conductor Evan Ziporyn embark on a U.S. tour with Ziporyn’s Ambient Orchestra.
The New York Philharmonic’s declaration of its new-music bona fides this season is so emphatic, it’s being delivered with megaphones.
The work of MIT professor Neri Oxman straddles art and science.
“Schoenberg in Hollywood,” a work by Boston-based composer Tod Machover, will receive its world premiere Nov. 14 at Emerson College’s Paramount Center.
The honors keep coming for artist Joan Jonas, a professor emerita at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Spouses Theo and Kevin are preparing for a dinner party in the opening moments of Ken Urban’s “The Remains.”
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.
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
Suffering for art took on frigid new meaning for composer Tod Machover while creating his new symphony for the Philadelphia Orchestra.
author junot díaz discusses debut children’s book
The American artist Joan Jonas stood before an enthusiastic audience in London late on Friday and re-enacted excerpts from some of her performances.
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?
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
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.
