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Combining digital technology with the human voice, Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT winner Pamela Z creates layered music from everyday life In the mid-eighties, artist Pamela Z was working at Tower Records on Columbus Street in San … Continued
Theresa Clare McHugh ’23 has always known that music is their greatest passion. A classical soprano, McHugh has been studying voice since the fifth grade, and redoubled their dedication to the craft at MIT. Singing is more than an extraordinary … Continued
The 2023 Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts at MIT recipients: Felix Li, Manar Moursi, Reina Mun, and Karyn Nakamura What happens when technologies fulfill their mission? What happens when they fail, or decay, or when the … Continued
The Council for the Arts at MIT provides funding for arts projects that engage the MIT community. The Council’s Grants Committee considers proposals for projects in the fall and spring semesters. Spring 2023 Grants Committee Funding Recipients Eleven projects by MIT students … Continued
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will welcome interdisciplinary artist Pamela Z this spring for a series of campus visits and performances as part of the Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT.
With the 2023 edition of the Biennale just around the bend, get a taste of major goings-on at the Giardini, Arsenale, and beyond.
21 Questions with architect Liz Diller.
Interdisciplinary artist Pamela Z has been awarded the Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts by MIT. The award includes a $100,000 investment in Z’s creative practice and an artist residency at MIT later this spring. In anticipation of the residency, MIT will host … Continued
Designers Skylar Tibbits and Chris Cooke, editor Katelin Butler, 2LG Studio co-founders Russell Whitehead and Jordan Cluroe and Quirk Studio co-founders Shivani Ajmera and Disha Bhavsar have been announced as Dezeen Awards 2023 judges.
After beginning the oratorio with a convincing representation of chaos, conductor Andrew Clark, the MIT Concert Choir, the Handel and Haydn Society Youth Chamber Choir, three soloists, and a small orchestra continued their rousing traversal of Haydn’s Creation at Kresge last Saturday.
Nell Breyer’s installation “Where Lines Converge,” on view in Manhattan’s Central Synagogue, asks what it means for bodies to convene and perceive themselves as a collective. The artist Nell Breyer ‘02 has long been fascinated by the relationship between … Continued
The work of Sung Tieu necessitates a fair amount of explanatory text. Reading the growing body of writing about Tieu (the artist will open her first US solo exhibitions—“Infra-Specter” at Brooklyn’s Amant on March 30, “Civic Floor” at Cambridge’s MIT … Continued
One of the beauties of art—of all creative endeavors—is that it cannot fully be quantified. Statues and films and stories all have value. But apart from a few high-flying market makers, it’s hard to assess their actual worth. The difficulty … Continued
A new startup born out of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning has developed a green roof concept aimed at improving the quality of life of Parisians while addressing a host of environmental and urban health concerns for the ancient city of 2.1 million.
Chicago native and founder of the Society of Spoken Art Lupe Fiasco announced on Thursday that he’s a Yale University’s Saybrook Fellow.
The Indigenous Screen Office (ISO) in collaboration with Co-Creation Studio at the MIT Open Documentary Lab have selected four screen-based Indigenous artists from different regions in Canada for the new Immersive Incubator taking place at the MIT campus from April … Continued
Last May, Lupe announced that he would be teaching at MIT as part of the college’s MLK Visiting Professor Program for the 2022-23 academic year. He was previously a Visiting Artist at the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology from … Continued
Visiting musician Clarice Assad applies her inclusive approach to a new project about the Amazon The accomplishments of Brazilian-American composer, vocalist, and pianist Clarice Assad are many. She has won accolades, earned prestigious residencies, and her work is performed … Continued
Mais de 75 músicos e pesquisadores do MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), prestigiada universidade norte-americana e considerada a melhor do mundo há mais de 10 anos, participam de intercâmbio cultural e científico sobre música, tecnologia e ritmos da Amazônia, em … Continued
Artistas brasileiros e indígenas, além de compositoras indicadas ao Grammy, vão se unir a 75 músicos e pesquisadores do MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), considerada a melhor universidade do mundo por alguns rankings há mais de 10 anos, para apresentar … Continued
A portrait concert of composer Derek David will feature new vocal and chamber works that reflect upon Jewish identity and Yiddish culture in a contemporary landscape.
Pink chickens changing the earth? How about a distortion in spacetime that you can actually see? Strange questions – and the MIT Museum in Cambridge has a few answers. Visitors can see the best of MIT, plus new technologies, at the … Continued
The tech-forward composer Tod Machover has made a chamber opera of Richard Powers’s novel “The Overstory,” featuring Joyce DiDonato.
CNN visits Christopher Joshua Benton at Abu Dhabi Art.
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
