MIT List Visual Arts Center — Attraction in Cambridge

Entrance free of charge. Architecturally sublime. Kind and gentle staff, feel free to ask them about the works exhibited. (If you have the luck to meet Selby Nimrod please honor the presence). Concise yet very nurturing. Indoor exhibitions are mainly composed of 2 selections and a small library/reading lobby. Outdoor exhibition is largely composed by many traditional forms of art that are scattered around the blocks (use the map provided inside to explore these, bet it's more enjoyable during summer) . Compared with the main MIT museum I found this experience closer to the current topics of interests that the artistic researches are facing on the new media lab (this is just a personal guess...

It is a beautiful building but they had some very strange artifacts in the art gallery. The woman who let us in was very helpful in telling us about why they were in such a closed status (covid precautions good for them) and recommending things we should do.

I want to go back but I surely would not visit the same gallery once again. I'm sure if I had to pay for it I would have been upset with the trip to the gallery. Maybe if I had read the description it would have been more clear, but I could not even be...

It’s really a beautiful space (and the entry is free), but the experience is soured by curatorial elitism and pouty staff. Desk lady/docent here told me recently that I didn’t understand the work (and couldn’t) because I wasn’t a refugee or seeking asylum - I kid you not. Most installations here are accompanied by puffed up socio-political (read: grant fulfilling) essays - apparently art can’t speak for itself anymore. If you are into a dose of feel-bad self-righteous institutional art, the List...