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British painter Matthew Burrows on creating an alternative economy for artists under lockdown
January 14, 2021
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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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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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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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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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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
Image: Virtual Playwrights Lab 2020. Courtesy of Ken Urban.
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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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What Are Art Galleries For?
Three artists on the future of the gallery system after Covid-19.
July 1, 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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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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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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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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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