Lavine Lecture Series

Woman stands at the front of a circular chapel with a projector screen and speaks to an audience who sits in wooden chairs.

The Leroy and Dorothy Lavine Lecture Series was established to honor the Lavines, two prominent Boston art patrons and longtime supporters of the MIT List Visual Arts Center. This lecture series, featuring distinguished art world speakers and presenters, serves the Boston arts community through its focus on modern and contemporary art.

Past Lavine Lectures

A woman in a white coat walks a dog.

Joan Jonas: A Meter-Making Argument / A Talk by Gregory Volk

The MIT Chapel in pictured in front of a blue sky and trees.

Bertoia Backstory on the MIT Chapel Reredos

A white balloon floats over a spiral jetty, beach, and ocean.

Nature Is Never Finished: Land Art Conservation in the 21st Century

Grass and branch textures are projected through layers of glass.

Surface Tension, Screen Space: A Talk by Giuliana Bruno

A man in a suit stands with a protest sign that reads "War Kills. ROTC feeds the war!"

Black Fire: The Struggle for Racial Justice in Charlottesville and Beyond, 1964 to the Present

An installation by Dan Flavin consists of parallel LED light beams.

Light Trap for Dan Flavin a Talk by Jeffrey Weiss