Charlotte Brathwaite awarded 2019 United States Artists Fellow

Director Charlotte Brathwaite is known for her unique approach to staging classical and unconventional texts, dance, visual art, multi-media, site-specific installation, video and film, performance art, plays, and music events. Her work has been seen in the Americas, Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and Asia and ranges in subject matter from the historical past to the distant future, illuminating issues of race, sex, power, and the complexities of the human condition. Continue Reading

Keeril Makan named vice provost for the arts

An acclaimed composer and longtime MIT faculty member, Makan will direct the next act in MIT’s story of artistic leadership.

The “delicious joy” of creating and recreating music

Leslie Tilley combines deep experience as a musician with cultural and formal analysis, to see how people refashion music anew.

Seen and heard: The new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building

Until very recently, Mariano Salcedo, a fourth-year MIT electronic engineering and computer science student majoring in artificial intelligence and decision-making, was planning to apply for a master’s program in computer science at MIT.

Travels with Rambax

KAOLACK, Senegal – The MIT students have just finished dinner and are crumpling soda cans into trash bins when they get the summons: “Grab your drums, grab your drums, grab your drums …”