Boston Globe reporter Mark Feeney spotlights the “Arresting Fragments: Object Photography at the Bauhaus,” exhibit on display at the MIT Museum. The exhibit “conveys a particular sense of why the Bauhaus was so influential,” writes Fenney.
Boston Globe reporter Cate McQuaid writes that a new exhibit of Otto Piene’s work at the Fitchburg Art Museum spotlights the late artist’s work with light and fire. McQuaid writes that through his art Piene, who served as director of MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies, “insisted on a better, more hopeful future.”
Boston Globe reporter Murray Whyte spotlights Kapwani Kiwanga’s new exhibit, “Safe Passage,” which is on display at the MIT List Visual Arts Center. Whyte writes that “‘Safe Passage’ is about a moment, not so long ago, when high art opted out of a divisive national argument.”
WBUR’s Andrea Shea spotlights an exhibit at the Fitchburg Art Museum celebrating the work of artist Otto Piene, who served as the director of MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies from 1974 to 1994. The new show, “reveals concepts and connections he forged throughout his long career, and proves how Piene was ahead of his time.”
Boston Globe reporter Cate McQuaid highlights the “Before Projection: Video Sculpture 1974-1995” show on display at the MIT List Visual Arts Center as the best video show of 2018.
WBUR’s Cintia Lopez highlights the “Inside Tony Conrad: A Retrospective” exhibit on display at the MIT List Visual Arts Center as part of a roundup of things to do over the weekend. Lopez writes that the List is “paying homage to a man whose name you might not know, but whose multimedia work probably influences a lot of the culture you love.”
A new exhibit at the MIT Museum spotlights the work of MIT alumnus N.G. Herreshoff, whose work greatly influenced the boatbuilding industry, reports Kari Bodnarchuk for The Boston Globe. Bodnarchuk notes that Herreshoff, “built the first modern catamarans, the first torpedo boats for the US Navy, the country’s first steam-powered fishing vessels, and America’s Cup boats.”
Cate McQuaid of The Boston Globe reviews an MIT Museum exhibit showcasing the drawings of neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal. Paired with contemporary brain imaging, the exhibition lets observers, “vault through illuminated brain matter as if you were the USS Enterprise shifting into warp drive,” writes McQuaid.
WBUR’s Maria Garcia explores an exhibit at the MIT Museum of Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s drawings of the human brain. Prof. Robert Desimone, director of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, explains that, “there's no question that these kinds of circuit diagrams that Cajal was giving us are telling us a great deal about what makes us, us."
Allison Katz speaks with WBUR’s Pamela Reynolds about her new exhibit, “Diary w/o Dates,” which is on display through July 29th at the MIT List Visual Arts Center. As Katz explains, the work is about “calibrating various ways of internalizing time,” particularly compared to “the evenly-paced grid of the calendar/clock/grid model.”
In an article for The Boston Globe, Cate McQuaid reviews “An Inventory of Shimmers: Objects of Intimacy in Contemporary Art,” which is currently on display at the MIT List Visual Arts Center. McQuaid notes that the conceptual art in the exhibit, “plugs into perceptions of love, trust, and care.”
Writing for The Boston Globe, Cate McQuaid spotlights “Gwenneth Boelens: At Odds” and “Charlotte Moth: Seeing While Moving,” two exhibits on display at the MIT List Visual Arts Center. McQuaid writes that “individual works in the exhibitions prompt bittersweet responses to lost utopias, uncanny associations of place and time, and heightened attunement to the senses.”
Boston Globe reporter Sebastian Smee writes about the updated Arthur Ganson exhibit at the MIT Museum. Of Ganson’s kinetic sculptures, Smee proclaims that he has “yet to meet [a person] who didn’t love them,” adding that there are many “memorable works in this show — poetically conceived, superbly engineered, and patiently fabricated.”
Boston-area museums swapped Instagram accounts this week to promote and share the plethora of cultural offerings available, reports Steve Annear for The Boston Globe. The Peabody Essex Museum visited the MIT Museum and shared images of Kismet, “art from the Hart Nautical Collection; and Harold Edgerton’s stop-motion photograph the ‘milk-drop coronet.’”
Boston Globe reporter Sebastian Smee writes about Edgar Arceneaux’s new exhibit “Written in Smoke and Fire,” which is currently on display at the MIT List Visual Arts Center. Smee writes that Arceneaux’s installation “'Until, Until, Until. . .’ is a brilliant work.”