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MIT List Visual Arts Center The MIT List Visual Arts Center is respected as one of the most significant university art galleries. The contemporary art museum at MIT.

With the changing of the seasons, take a stroll through campus and discover MIT’s Public Art Collection 🍂“Three-Piece Re...
10/21/2026

With the changing of the seasons, take a stroll through campus and discover MIT’s Public Art Collection 🍂

“Three-Piece Reclining Figure, Draped,” by Henry Moore is located on Killian Court (in front of the Maclaurin Buildings; Buildings 3, 4, 10).

Moore’s reclining figures connote gods and goddesses of nature, rivers, and seasons—the earth and its elements. Tending toward abstraction, the characteristic shapes express Moore’s belief in a close affinity between man and nature, sculpture and landscape.

Explore with the List Center Digital Guide! – https://app.bloombergconnects.org/Z8kDkO56Wub

Pictured: Henry Moore, “Three-Piece Reclining Figure, Draped,” 1976. Image courtesy MIT Image Library. Photo: Gretchen Ertl

Two new exhibitions, an artist talk, and an evening in the galleries—Thursday night plans, sorted!Celebrate the opening ...
10/16/2026

Two new exhibitions, an artist talk, and an evening in the galleries—Thursday night plans, sorted!

Celebrate the opening of “Uri Aran: Look How Hard They Work” and “Hao Jingban: I Witness” on Thursday, October 22.

Beginning at 5:30 PM, join us for a conversation between artist Hao Jingban and Harvard doctoral student Huirong Ye. Following the talk, explore the galleries while enjoying light refreshments and beverages from Momma’s Grocery + W**e from 6:30–8:00 PM.

This reception is free and open to all, though registration is required. Please visit our website to register today. We hope to see you there!

Pictured:
1) Hao Jingban, “I Witness,” 2025 (still). Three-channel video installation, color, sound, 54:41 min. Commissioned jointly by the Han Nefkens Foundation, Mori Art Museum, M+, and Singapore Art Museum. Courtesy the artist and Blindspot Gallery
2) Uri Aran, “Guide,” 2025. Oil, polyurethane, oil pastel, graphite on HDO, 37 ⅜ x 97 ⅜ x 1 ½ in (95 x 247.2 x 3.8 cm) overall. © Uri Aran. Courtesy the artist; Sadie Coles, London; Matthew Brown; and Andrew Kreps Gallery

TONIGHT! Join List Center Assistant Curator Marina Caron for a guided tour of “List Projects 35: Pap Souleye Fall” at 5:...
10/08/2026

TONIGHT! Join List Center Assistant Curator Marina Caron for a guided tour of “List Projects 35: Pap Souleye Fall” at 5:30PM.

This curatorial tour will highlight how Fall’s work insists on the power of spaces that lie outside of view—those that preserve and shelter knowledge and self-determination, or, by contrast, obscure the inner workings of extractive processes.

The tour will emphasize how DEAD PIXEL sharpens the stakes of what it means to move through the world unseen.

Register: https://listart.mit.edu/calendar/curator-tour-list-projects-35-pap-souleye-fall

Pictured: Pap Souleye Fall, "I See You in the Backseat," 2024. Aluminum, 2024 gri gri. 8 x 15 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York

Happening tonight at 5:30 PM! 💥 Join us for Pap Souleye Fall’s performance “INVISIBLETOWHOM Arc 2” (2026), part of MIT’s...
10/02/2026

Happening tonight at 5:30 PM! 💥 Join us for Pap Souleye Fall’s performance “INVISIBLETOWHOM Arc 2” (2026), part of MIT’s Future Fest.

Fall will take on the role of DEAD PIXEL—the protagonist of their ongoing narrative universe spanning installation, video, drawing, and comics—arriving to destabilize order and conjure spirits.

“INVISIBLETOWHOM Arc 2” is presented alongside “List Projects 35: Pap Souleye Fall,” on view in our Bakalar Gallery through November 29, 2026.

This event is supported by MIT Future Fest and the Art, Culture, and Technology program at MIT.

Pictured: "INVISIBLETOWHOM Arc 2," 2026. Performance documentation, L'Académie des Mutantes, CAPC Bordeaux, 2026. Courtesy the artist, CAPC Bordeaux, and Garth Greenan Gallery. Photo: Arthur Pequin

As part of the inaugural MIT Future Fest, Kahlil Joseph and the “BLKNWS” team have created a new edition of “BLKNWS®,” f...
09/30/2026

As part of the inaugural MIT Future Fest, Kahlil Joseph and the “BLKNWS” team have created a new edition of “BLKNWS®,” featuring conversations with members of the MIT community filmed on campus in August 2026.

Bringing together scholars, scientists, artists, and thinkers from across the Institute, Joseph’s MIT Edition asks what it means to imagine the future from one of the world’s most consequential research communities, and what the intersection of Black intellectual life, technology, and cultural imagination looks like when given a platform at MIT.

Learn more on our website and visit the List Center atrium through Sunday, October 4, 2026 to view the work in person.

Pictured: Kahlil Joseph, “BLKNWS®” (2018–ongoing). Two-channel video installation (continuously updated); photographic wallpaper. Installation detail: Cantor Arts Center, Stanford, CA, 2019. Image: courtesy Cantor Arts Center

Next Month: Our main galleries reopen with two new exhibitions, “Uri Aran: Look How Hard They Work” and “Hao Jingban: I ...
09/22/2026

Next Month: Our main galleries reopen with two new exhibitions, “Uri Aran: Look How Hard They Work” and “Hao Jingban: I Witness.”

Read on to learn more about each exhibition ⤵️

In our Hayden Gallery, Uri Aran's work is at once deeply idiosyncratic and oddly familiar: to follow it is to tinker alongside the artist, to be let in on an invention, or perhaps a shorthand between friends.

In our Reference Gallery, blending documentary sensibility with poetic construction, Hao Jingban makes moving-image installations that are emotionally precise, historically incisive, and formally experimental.

Visit our website to learn more about the upcoming exhibitions.

Pictured:
1)Uri Aran, “The Good Route,” 2024. Mixed media, dimensions variable. Approx. 32 x 36 x 10 in. (81.3 x 91.44 x 25.4 cm). Courtesy the artist; Sadie Coles, London; and Matthew Brown, LA
2) Hao Jingban, “I Witness,” 2025, Three-channel video installation, 54’41”, Edition of 6 + 2AP. Commissioned jointly by the Han Nefkens Foundation, Mori Art Museum, M+, and Singapore Art Museum. Image courtesy the artist and Blindspot Gallery

Join the List Center for a special screening of “Human Nature,” the newest episode of Art21’s acclaimed PBS series “Art ...
09/16/2026

Join the List Center for a special screening of “Human Nature,” the newest episode of Art21’s acclaimed PBS series “Art in the Twenty-First Century.”

The episode examines our impact on the world around us, the social and economic systems that shape daily life, and the ways we relate to one another.

Following the screening, stay for a conversation with featured artist Josh Kline.

Wednesday, September 23, 2026
🍕 6:00 PM — Pizza
🎥 6:30 PM — Film screening
💬 7:30 PM — Conversation with Josh Kline

Register: https://listart.mit.edu/calendar/art21-screening-josh-kline

Next Week! Join us at the List Center for a unique chance to connect with other Boston area graduate art students and yo...
09/12/2026

Next Week! Join us at the List Center for a unique chance to connect with other Boston area graduate art students and young artists.

🗓️ Wednesday, September 16, 6:00–8:00 PM
📍MIT List Visual Arts Center

For this special networking event, Boston’s area graduate art students, recent grads, and young artists are invited to come together and create connections, while learning more about List Center exhibitions and highlighting community, placemaking, and professional development.

Learn more and register: https://listart.mit.edu/calendar/connect-list-graduate-art-students-4

New Acquisition Highlights: Discover the dynamic voices, media, and ideas within newly acquired works from recently exhi...
09/03/2026

New Acquisition Highlights: Discover the dynamic voices, media, and ideas within newly acquired works from recently exhibited artists at the List Center.

The collection of acquisitions includes artworks by featured artists: American Artist, Goldin+Senneby, Every Ocean Hughes, and Charlotte Moth.

Read and learn more about the selection of works on the List Center Digital Guide via Bloomberg Connects.

Pictured:
1) Every Ocean Hughes, “Untitled (discompose #12),” 2014
2) American Artist, “Octavia E. Butler Papers: mssOEB 1-9062 II (Shape God),” 2022
3) Goldin+Senneby, “Starfish and Citrus Thorn (Immunity of high ranking military),” 2021
4) Charlotte Moth, “The Protagonists (4),” 2010

The Student Lending Art Program Exhibition is back! Explore more than 500 original works of art on view before MIT stude...
09/01/2026

The Student Lending Art Program Exhibition is back!

Explore more than 500 original works of art on view before MIT students borrow them for the academic year.

Visit during gallery hours, join a free public guided tour to discover collection highlights, and MIT students can enter the lottery for a chance to bring an artwork home.

Learn more and plan your visit via the link in our bio.

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20 Ames Street Building E15, Atrium Level
Cambridge, MA
02142

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Tuesday 12pm - 6pm
Wednesday 12pm - 7pm
Thursday 12pm - 7pm
Friday 12pm - 6pm
Saturday 12pm - 6pm
Sunday 12pm - 6pm

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