Boston Globe reporter Mark Feeney writes about photographer Ulrich Wüst’s show at the MIT Museum, his first exhibit in the U.S. Feeney writes that the wonder of Wüst’s show is “how diverse it is in subject matter…yet how consistent in spirit.”
MIT Lecturer B.D. Colen speaks with Boston Magazine reporter Chris Sweeney about his new photography exhibit, “Alone, Together,” which looks at how people riding the MBTA attempt to find some privacy. Colen explains that the idea behind the exhibit “isn’t to invade people’s privacy. You’re in public, and I’m just documenting how people behave under these circumstances.”
Boston Globe reporter Eryn Carlson writes about MIT visiting artist Anicka Yi’s exhibition, “6,070,430K of Digital Spit,” on display at the List Visual Arts Center. Yi explains that she wants the exhibit, “to be a totally encompassing experience, engaging the senses of taste, sight, smell, hearing.”
In this video, Jared Bowen reports for WGBH on a retrospective of Professor Joan Jonas’ work at the MIT List Visual Arts Center. “One only has to experience it and you get immersed in it,” says List Visual Arts Center Director Paul Ha of Jonas’ work.
Cate McQuaid of The Boston Globe reports on a new display by Czech artist Eva Kot’átková on display at the MIT List Visual Arts Center. “Her sculptures, collages, and assemblages touch a nerve, evoking the fugitive inner life of children as a threat to adults and to society,” writes McQuaid.
WGBH reporter Jared Bowen highlights the selection of Prof. Emertia Joan Jonas’ films and videos currently on display at the MIT List Visual Arts Center in his weekly roundup of recommended exhibitions, movies and musical performances. “Those of us who can’t make it to Italy can see seven of her films and videos that pushed the media forward, right in Cambridge.”
Ann Neumann, formerly of the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, N.J., has been appointed director of galleries and exhibitions at the MIT Museum, according to the Cambridge Chronicle. “I’m excited to take a position that is at the epicenter of so much scientific research,” said Neumann.
Boston Globe reporter Mark Feeney writes about “Images of Discovery: Communicating Science Through Photography,” an exhibit at the MIT Museum featuring three MIT-affiliated photographers. The show also includes “interactive stations where museumgoers can create digital versions of the sorts of images seen in the gallery.”
In an article highlighting the 35 “must-see” arts events in New England, Sebastian Smee of The Boston Globe features the Joan Jonas exhibition organized by the MIT List Visual Arts Center. “The List will present an exhibition in Cambridge that features seven of the artist’s seminal film and video works, surveying the breadth of her career,” Smee writes.
Mark Feeney of The Boston Globe writes about the “Photographing Places” exhibit at the MIT Museum, which features images that appeared in the landscape and urban design journal Places. “There are 21 photographers in the show and nearly 70 images. In both style and substance, they demonstrate a happily vigorous diversity,” explains Feeney.
Yiqing Shao writes for Boston Magazine about “Photographing Places,” a new exhibit at the MIT Museum featuring art from Places journal, a publication that examines the relationship between people and their surroundings. Places was “founded in the ’80s by architecture faculty at MIT and UC Berkeley,” explains Shao.
Vijee Venkatraman writes for BetaBoston about the "Local Warming" exhibit developed by the MIT SENSEable City Lab. The system uses a WiFi-based tracking system that follows people and provides local heating through lamps.
Boston Globe reporter Cate McQuiad writes about “Vocal Vibrations,” the musical installation and exhibit featuring works by MIT Professors Tod Machover and Neri Oxman. “I was interested in a space where the music and the environment is very soft. To allow the general public to be directly involved in making music,” explains Machover.
Boston Globe reporter Cate McQuaid writes about the growing popularity of performance art at Boston-area museums, highlighting the MIT List Visual Arts Center’s long tradition of presenting the medium. “But the List, at an institution as forward-thinking as MIT, is exceptional,” writes McQuaid.
Matthew Guerrieri of The Boston Globe writes about “Open Tunings,” a three-month project at the MIT List Visual Arts Center to “explore the various ways in which the ephemeral forms of sound and performance can inhabit the exhibition space.”