Arts

Olafur Eliasson receives 2014 McDermott Award

Award includes artist residency, pop-up exhibitions, public lecture, $100,000 prize and gala

October 24, 2013

TOUR de SHASS expo launched

Students 'Take the Tour' at travel-themed expo

October 17, 2013

La Scala Chamber Orchestra performs at MIT

October 15, 2013

Toward Post-Mortar Architecture: Woven-House

SA+P students sweep visual arts awards

Honors for work that incorporates both old and new technologies

October 4, 2013

Karina Arnaez named diversity manager for MIT SHASS

October 1, 2013

Fishermen weave nets on a seashore in Ghana. This was the winning entry in the 2013 J-PAL and Innovations for Poverty Action staff photo contest.

Said and Done for September 2013

Digest of the MIT humanities, arts and social sciences

September 18, 2013

Guests from the Deeper History event celebrated David Friedman's work on Italian Renaissance architecture. Friedman retired from MIT this summer.

Celebrating 'Deeper History'

Event recognizes the work of Professor David Friedman

August 27, 2013

Renée Green is shown before an image from her feature film, +Endless Dreams and Water Between.+

Renée Green: Shifting mental spaces

June 26, 2013

Video: MIT's Student Loan Art Program

This popular annual program allows students and student groups to borrow original works of art for their private rooms and communal spaces.

June 19, 2013

J. Meejin Yoon (left) created this light and sound installation in Phoenix, Ariz.

Creativity within constraints

J. Meejin Yoon uses sound and light to transform public areas

June 17, 2013

Dean Fitzgerald announces appointments to SHASS leadership roles

June 10, 2013

Jay Scheib was recently named Best New York Theater Director by <i>Time Out New York</i>.

MIT energizes theater arts professor

Multifaceted Associate Professor Jay Scheib named director of the Theater Arts Department

June 5, 2013

Tahir Square in Cairo, Egypt, during the demonstrations of the Arab Spring

MIT music documentary pays tribute to the Arab Spring

WGBH Boston/Channel 2 airs 'Awakening: Evoking the Arab Spring Through Music'

May 30, 2013

Screen capture of the time dilation effect in OpenRelativity.

Playing with Einstein

MIT Game Lab releases OpenRelativity, a game-development tool to help developers and educators experiment with the effects of special relativity.

May 28, 2013

A collapsible tetrahedral kite inspired by one designed by Alexander Graham Bell.

Reinventing invention

Designer Chuck Hoberman partners with CSAIL to create transformable mechanisms