Tag: MIT List Visual Arts Center

Carlos Reyes, "PROMESA, 2021 (foreground), and "West Side Club," 2018 (background). (Greg Cook photo)

Art Greg CookNovember 27, 2023 0

Carlos Reyes’s Minimalist Monuments To Lost Gay Clubs

In Carlos Reyes’s one-room exhibition, “18,” at MIT’s List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge from Oct. 27, 2023, to March 10, 2024, are four 2-foot-wide monoliths made from cedar planks, scratched…Continue Reading →

Otto Piene, "Proliferation of the Sun" at the Fitchburg Art Museum, 1966/1967, re-staged Neue Nationalgalerie 2014, 35-minute multimedia performance with digitized hand-painted glass slides, sound, 7 digital projectors, 12’ diameter white inflatable sphere, and 3 screens. (Greg Cook)

Art Greg CookMay 22, 2019 0

During WWII, Otto Piene’s Job Was To Kill Planes, Afterward He Imagined A ‘Sky Art’ Of Peace

The artist Otto Piene was 15 when his entire class at his school in Lübbecke, Germany, was drafted into the Wehrmacht. The conscription of kindsoldaten (“child soldiers”) into the military…Continue Reading →