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List Center Digital Guide

Explore the List Visual Arts Center online using our Digital Guide, available on Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture digital platform.

Experience the site-specific rap and field recording project, GHOTIING MIT: Public Art, a collaboration between Lupe Fiasco and the MIT List Visual Arts Center that explores the relationship between rap and MIT’s public art collection. 

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Public Art Collection

​​MIT List Visual Arts Center provides artists with a space to freely experiment and push boundaries. Our galleries and programs are always free and open to all.

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2025 Max Wasserman Forum: Visions of Sustainability

2025 Max Wasserman Forum: Visions of Sustainability: A one day forum bringing together artists, scholars, and curators to discuss climate change within the arts and museum institutions. 

A small body of water with perfectly circular edges sits amid neatly trimmed grass and trees. Inside the water are tall wetland grasses and floating moss. Overlayed text reads "2025 Max Wasserman Forum: Visions of Sustainability. April 5, 2025"

Visual identity: Studio ELLA for the 2025 Max Wasserman Forum; Artwork: Michael Wang, Shanghai Swamp, 2022

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

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Sanford Biggers, Madrigal, 2024

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Graduate Student Talk: Megan Masterson

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List Projects 31: Kite

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Visions of Sustainability Panel 3: Rethinking Cultural Systems

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Visions of Sustainability Panel 2: Advocacy Work

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Visions of Sustainability Panel 1: Human Traces

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Graduate Student Talk: Félix-Antoine Gélineau

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Visions of Sustainability: Torkwase Dyson Keynote Address

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Steina: Playback

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This new website was created in part to support the digitization of the List Center's exhibition archive. Past exhibitions now include archival images dating back to 1985 when the List Visual Arts Center was founded.

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For the MIT Community

The List Visual Arts Center is more than a contemporary art museum: it’s an active gathering place, education center, and workspace for college students right on MIT’s campus. 

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