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.”
Boston Globe reporter Mark Feeney reviews “Imagined Communities,” a new exhibit of the photography of Mila Teshaieva at the MIT Museum. Feeney notes that, “Teshaieva is the latest in an impressive roster of contemporary European photographers brought to the museum by MIT’s Gary Van Zante, who curated the show.”
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."
“The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal” is currently on exhibit at the MIT Museum through the end of 2018. The show features drawings by Cajal that “so effectively illustrate now-basic neurological concepts that they are still used in neuroscience textbooks today,” writes Zoë Schlanger for Quartz.
Mark Feeney writes for The Boston Globe about the exhibit “György Kepes Photographs: The MIT Years, 1946-1985,” which is on display at the MIT Museum through July 2018. This is the second show in a two-part series that celebrates the 50th anniversary of MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies, which Kepes founded as an Institute professor.
The MIT Museum and MIT List Visual Arts Center were two of 18 Boston-area museums that participated in this year’s #BostonInstaSwap. Each museum sent an employee to another local institution where they were “tasked with snapping and sharing pictures from the scene, highlighting exhibits and giving their followers a different experience,” writes Steve Annear for The Boston Globe.
Anaridis Rodriguez reports for CBS Boston on the MIT Museum’s Idea Hub, which is aimed at keeping children engaged and enriched throughout the summer months. “I think it is wonderful and inspiring to be here at MIT where there are so many incredibly inventive ideas happening,” parent Laura Hoopes says.
In this video, Channel 7 spotlights Girls Day, an MIT Museum event aimed at encouraging girls to explore STEM fields. Attendees were able to meet the women’s basketball team “and learn the science behind making the perfect shot. Other activities included learning math through dance and the physics of pitching, hosted by the school’s softball team.”
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.’”
In a New York Times travel guide to Cambridge, Mass., Ethan Gilsdorf recommends that visitors explore the MIT campus, spotlighting the Ray and Maria Stata Center, the List Visual Arts Center and MIT’s collection of outdoor art. He also writes that “to study Cambridge’s innovative, D.I.Y. spirit, look no further than the MIT Museum.”
Paola Cigui highlights how the MIT Museum offers free admission on the last Sunday of the month, from September through June, in Boston Magazine’s list of free things to in Boston. “Take a look at some of their current exhibitions involving photography, artificial intelligence, holography, and many other scientific fields,” Cigui suggests.
Women You Should Know celebrates the 80th birthday of computer scientist Margaret Hamilton with a video spotlighting her work at MIT developing code for NASA’s Apollo program. Hamilton’s “Apollo code ultimately saved the Apollo 11 astronauts from having to abort their historic moon landing.”
WBUR’s Will Sullivan spoke with Research Scientist Felice Frankel about the new MIT Museum exhibit on science photography, which features images by Frankel, the late MIT Prof. Harold "Doc" Edgerton and Berenice Abbott. Frankel explains that to her science photography is “an art of discovery.”