Spencer Finch, Bring me the sunset in a cup, 2023. Commissioned with MIT Percent-for-Art funds. Photo: Dario Lasagni
Percent-for-Art commissions are ongoing for four building projects.
The List Center presented a new commissioned piece by Spencer Finch, Bring me the sunset in a cup, installed in the main stairwell landing at the new Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing (Building 45). This was commemorated with a talk by Spencer Finch along with a reception in the SCC building.
The List Center also unveiled the commissioned installation by Julian Charrière titled Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More at the Tina and Hamid Moghadam Building (55) for the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. Charrière’s three bodies of work that comprise this installation can be found outside in the courtyard as well as inside the lobby.
Commissions for the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building (an outdoor sculpture by Sanford Biggers) and the renovations at the Metropolitan Warehouse will be installed in 2024 and 2025, respectively.
We joined over 200 cultural institutions from around the world on the Bloomberg Connects mobile application. This was a major project that has made information about our Public Art Collection and all recent exhibitions accessible to the global audiences who engage with this app. We introduced new content including audio guides for each of our exhibitions which are also accessible through the app.
The Digital Guide was used in a variety of languages including Spanish, English, Italian, French, German, Chinese (Simplified, Mandarin), Portuguese, Turkish, Dutch, Russian, Bengali, Korean, and Arabic, demonstrating the reach of the List Center’s audiences.
The top-three audio guides played were Symbionts: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere; Olafur Eliasson, Northwest Passage, 2018; and Carlos Reyes, 18.
