List Visual Arts Center

Sebastian Smee reviews Rosa Barba’s new “brilliant new show” at the List Visual Arts Center for The Boston Globe. Smee writes that the exhibit is, “terrifically satisfying to eye, ear, mind, and heart.”

Conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner has been commissioned in part by the MIT List Visual Arts Center to create a mural at Dewey Square Park, writes Malcolm Gay for The Boston Globe. “We hope that the viewers in Boston take away their own individual reading of the mural after seeing it,” said List director Paul Ha.

The Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy, in partnership with MIT List Visual Arts Center, announced that conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner has been commissioned to paint the Greenway’s fourth temporary mural, reports Olga Khvan for Boston Magazine. “[Weiner] is known for his typographic works, such as his 2008 ‘Dead Center’ installation at MIT,” Khvan explains. 

Casey Quackenbush reviews MIT visiting artist Anicka Yi’s new olfactory exhibition ‘Aliens and Alzheimers’ for The New York Observer. "Her exhibit is supposed to challenge the way we overlook our sense of smell in favor of taste and sight," writes Quackenbush.

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.” 

Guardian reporter Jason Farago writes about Prof. Emerita Joan Jonas’ multimedia installation at the Venice Biennale. Farago writes that Jonas’ exhibit has been “has been the hit of the Giardini,” and “that in a show with too little regard for form, her profound and affecting new work proves that politics and beauty are not at odds.”

Prof. Emerita Joan Jonas’ installation at the Venice Biennale is a “triumphal exhibition,” writes Roberta Smith for The New York Times. Smith says that Jonas’ exhibit is “one of the best solo shows to represent the United States at the biennale in over a decade — an effortless combination of maturity and freshness.”

Jane Farver, former director of the MIT List Visual Arts Center, died on April 29. Farver, who led the List for 12 years, brought about “an increase in the commissioning of major public artworks across campus.”

Boston Globe reporter Laura Collins-Hughes speaks with Professor Emerita Joan Jonas about her upcoming display at the Venice Biennale. “At the moment what attracts me, what I’m focusing on, is that the world is sort of in trouble in relation to the natural environment,” said Jonas about her motivation for her installation.

The MIT Visual Arts List has released details about Professor Emerita Joan Jonas’ upcoming video presentation at the Venice Biennale, writes Meredith Goldstein for The Boston Globe. Jonas “will present a new video performance, ‘They Come to Us Without a Word II,’ three times from July 20 to 22, with live musical accompaniment.”

MIT’s List Visual Arts Center is displaying a collection of Prof. Emerita Joan Jonas’ video art, writes Sebastian Smee for The Boston Globe. “The selection adds up to a fascinating overview of Jonas’s achievement, which is as rich and complex as it is disarming and improvised,” Smee writes. 

Lisa Cohen writes for The New York Times Style Magazine about the work of MIT Professor Emerita Joan Jonas, who has been selected to represent the U.S. at the Venice Biennale. “If the idiosyncratic qualities of Jonas’s work have made it inscrutable to some, its power is undeniable,” writes Cohen.