Arts

MIT biology research affiliate Joe Davis works in his apartment in Cambridge on the prototype for a Hurricane Katrina memorial--a 109-foot tower that will send laser beams into the sky. He recently won a Rockefeller fellowship for the project.

Research affiliate envisions towering Katrina memorial

June 4, 2008

A FEMA trailer en route to the MIT campus, where it will form the centerpiece of a new course on research as artistic practice.

FEMA trailer gets new lease on life

May 21, 2008

Keith Jochim as Richard Feynman in 'QED.'

Feynman play 'QED' to be performed starting April 30

April 25, 2008

MIT Libraries unveil new exhibit space

April 16, 2008

Harbison's 'Symphony No. 5' to premiere April 17-18

April 15, 2008

Keeril Makan, assistant professor of music, has won the Rome Prize for 2008-2009.

MIT's Makan wins Rome Prize

April 11, 2008

Byron is right at home in MIT's envelope-pushing culture

April 9, 2008

Junot Díaz wins Pulitzer for 'Oscar Wao'

April 7, 2008

Suzanne Berger, MIT professor of political science, cites global competition as a reason why 'people in our own society worry about what China, India, and the emergence of yet other countries means for our jobs and our children. But how could we really desire the alternative, which is a world where billions of people remain stuck on the bottom of the ladder?' She is one of the interviewees in Andr...

Book, exhibit showcase MIT faculty and their visions for the future

March 18, 2008

Erik Demaine, left, the Esther and Harold Edgerton Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, and his father, CSAIL visiting scientist Martin Demaine, model a couple of their sculptures in a Museum of Modern Art show titled 'Design and the Elastic Mind,' which runs until early May.

New York exhibits showcase MIT's arts clout

March 18, 2008

Female Cardinal, an original design by graduate student Andrea Hawksley.

Folding art and science

MIT students showcase origami at annual exhibit

March 7, 2008

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New site sheds light on MIT's hidden art treasures

February 29, 2008

J. Mark Schuster, urban studies and planning professor, 57

February 27, 2008

This image, from Belgian artist David Claerbout's "Sections of a Happy Moment," displays a family playing catch.

Claerbout exhibit opens Friday at List Center

February 6, 2008

Sofia Ponte, an MIT graduate student in architecture, peers around the canopy of Dreaming Lounge, on display in Barker Library through Feb. 15. Ponte created the furniture prototype for what she hopes will be a refuge for students needing respite from too much analytical thought.

Grand pram: Student's chaise offers temporary escape

January 18, 2008

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