Michael J. Bailey memorializes the life and work of Otto Piene, professor emeritus of visual design and the former director of MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies. “Leavened by helium, tethered through hundreds of feet of fabric tubes, and animated by the wind, his figurative and abstract sculptures would become the kinetic centerpiece of grand-scale festivals,” writes Bailey.
Bruce Weber of The New York Times reports on the legacy of Professor Emeritus Otto Piene, who died on July 17. “So many of his ideas are relevant today, from project-oriented work, to discussion-led thinking, to the ephemeral; all of that is now commonplace,” says Joachim Jäger, head of the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin.
Cate McQuaid of The Boston Globe writes about artist Sergei Tcherepnin’s multi-sensory installation at the MIT List Visual Arts Center. The exhibit features copper sculptures that emit sound and can be interacted with.
Andrea Shea reports for NPR on the MIT Media Lab’s Camera Culture group and its collaboration to restore damaged paintings by the postwar abstract artist Mark Rothko. The project for the Harvard Art Museum is intended to repair five works damaged by sunlight, as well as food and drink.
The exhibit “features work by an international array of artists who apply such critical awareness to their art and their place in society that they keep stepping away, to reappraise and to escape labels and easy reads,” writes Cate McQuaid of the “9 Artists” exhibit at the MIT List Visual Arts Center.
“The MIT List Visual Arts Center threw a party Wednesday for artist Joan Jonas, who was chosen recently to represent the United States in its national pavilion at the Venice Biennale,” write Mark Shanahan and Meredith Goldstein for The Boston Globe.
Boston Globe reporter Mark Feeney reports on “Daguerre’s American Legacy: Photographic Portraits (1840-1900) From the Wm. B. Becker Collection,” which is on display at the MIT Museum through January 4.
“On Wednesday, Jonas was announced as the artist who will officially represent the United States in its national pavilion at the Venice Biennale,” writes Sebastian Smee of The Boston Globe on Professor Joan Jonas’ selection for the prestigious art exhibition, which is widely regarded as the world’s most important exhibition of contemporary art.
New York Times reporter Carol Vogel writes that Professor Emerita Joan Jonas has been selected to represent the United States at the 2015 Venice Biennale. Paul C. Ha, director of the MIT List Visual Arts Center, nominated Jonas and will serve as commissioner of the exhibit.