MIT returns to the Venice Architecture Biennale
Faculty, students, and alumni contribute as curators and exhibitors at the world’s premier forum for architecture and design.
Maker Break: A celebration of making at MIT
Over 700 students and makers joined in the first annual participatory showcase of fabrication and crafts around the Institute.
What will we eat in the year 2050?
Climate Changed Symposium combines art and science to envision the global food system under climate change.
Featured video: Making music with the Chorallaries of MIT
For students in MIT's oldest co-ed a capella group, blending voices provides a creative outlet and a chance to share their love of song.
Playwrights Lab gives young writers a professional experience
MIT Music and Theater Arts lab provides students with a chance to workshop scripts with seasoned actors and directors in a professional setting.
Rock music helps students and educators explore engineering
Playful Learning Lab, founded by AnnMarie Thomas ’01, is collaborating with rock band OK Go to create hands-on PK-12 engineering experiences.
Q&A: Composer Tod Machover presents “Philadelphia Voices”
Ambitious new piece in his “City Symphony” series features the birthplace of American democracy.
Featured video: Celebrating the arts at MIT
A mercurial snapshot of the myriad ways in which MIT community members can express themselves through the arts
Yo-Yo Ma calls for “culture in action” to build a better world
Famed cellist delivers MIT’s annual Compton Lecture, adding some musical interludes.
Garden of ideas
With a new multimedia website, landscape architecture professor Anne Whiston Spirn makes a secret garden public and explores how ideas create form.
Q&A: Jay Scheib on theater, daring, and love
MIT professor directs award-winning rock musical “Bat Out of Hell.”
Digital archive showcases work from the Center for Advanced Visual Studies
The collection features groundbreaking projects from pioneers working at the intersection of art, science, and technology.
Future Heritage Lab devises creative responses to humanitarian crises
Artistic collaboration between MIT, German-Jordanian University is designed to reduce trauma for refugees in the Al Azraq Camp in Jordan.
The writing on the wall
Did humans speak through cave art? New paper links ancient drawings and language’s origins.