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.”
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.
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.
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.