Public Art Map
Overhill Road, Shawnee Mission
Jennifer Bartlett
Altarpiece for MIT Chapel
Harry Bertoia
Walker Memorial Mural
Edwin Howland Blashfield
Tragic Mask of Beethoven
Emile Antoine Bourdelle
Granite Bench
Scott Burton
Intermediate Model for La Grande Voile
Alexander Calder
La Grande Voile (The Big Sail)
Alexander Calder
Untitled #820S-01
Petah Coyne
Aesop's Fables, II
Mark di Suvero
Northwest Passage
Olafur Eliasson
Floor
Jackie Ferrara
Upper Courtyard
Richard Fleischner
Lower Courtyard
Richard Fleischner
Chord
Antony Gormley
Yin/Yang Pavilion
Dan Graham
Ring Stone
Cai Guo-Qiang
Cycladic Sentinel
Dimitri Hadzi
Elmo-MIT
Dimitri Hadzi
Guenette
Michael Heizer
Non-Object (Plane)
Anish Kapoor
Against the Run
Alicja Kwade
Bather
Jacques Lipchitz
Birth of the Muses
Jacques Lipchitz
Sacrifice III
Jacques Lipchitz
Hagar in the Desert
Jacques Lipchitz
Dispersed Events
Nick Mauss
Coming to Light
James Melchert
Cast-a-way
Elizabeth Murray
Transparent Horizon
Louise Nevelson
Here-There
Kenneth Noland
Magic Number
Jules Olitski
Untitled
Jorge Pardo
Trinity (Formerly Dunes I)
Beverly Pepper
Alchemist
Jaume Plensa
Games of Chance and Skill
Matthew Ritchie
Bell Tower for MIT Chapel
Theodore Roszak
Paleos
James Sanborn
For Marjorie
Tony Smith
Heads or Tails
Frank Stella
Loohooloo
Frank Stella
Blue Poles
Sarah Sze
Oxbow
Bill Thompson
Two Indeterminate Lines
Bernar Venet
Light Matrix (MIT)
Leo Villareal
SCIENTIA
Ursula von Rydingsvard
Dead Center
Lawrence Weiner
Invaders
Gary Wiley
Angola
Isaac Witkin
Sean Collier Memorial
J. Meejin Yoon
Baker House
Alvar Aalto
MIT Alumni Pool
Herbert L. Beckwith
MacGregor House
Pietro Belluschi
Maclaurin Buildings Buildings 3, 4, 10
William Welles Bosworth
Compton Laboratories
Gordon Bunshaft
Sloan Laboratories
Harry J. Carlson
Stratton Student Center
Eduardo Catalano
Health Services Building
Romaldo Giurgola
Koch Biology Building
Goody, Clancy & Associates
Simmons Hall
Steven Holl
New Media Lab
Fumihiko Maki
Fairchild Buildings
Walter Netsch
Bush Building
Walter Netsch
McNair Building
Walter Netsch
Ashdown House
William Rawn
Kresge Auditorium
Eero Saarinen
MIT Chapel
Eero Saarinen
Next House Dormitory
Josep Lluis Sert
Tang Residence Hall
Hugh Stubbins, Jr.
Hayden Memorial Library
Ralph Thomas Walker
Baker House
Alvar Aalto
Overhill Road, Shawnee Mission
Jennifer Bartlett
MIT Alumni Pool
Herbert L. Beckwith
MacGregor House
Pietro Belluschi
Altarpiece for MIT Chapel
Harry Bertoia
Walker Memorial Mural
Edwin Howland Blashfield
Maclaurin Buildings Buildings 3, 4, 10
William Welles Bosworth
Tragic Mask of Beethoven
Emile Antoine Bourdelle
Compton Laboratories
Gordon Bunshaft
Granite Bench
Scott Burton
Intermediate Model for La Grande Voile
Alexander Calder
La Grande Voile (The Big Sail)
Alexander Calder
Sloan Laboratories
Harry J. Carlson
Stratton Student Center
Eduardo Catalano
Untitled #820S-01
Petah Coyne
Aesop's Fables, II
Mark di Suvero
Northwest Passage
Olafur Eliasson
Floor
Jackie Ferrara
Upper Courtyard
Richard Fleischner
Lower Courtyard
Richard Fleischner
Health Services Building
Romaldo Giurgola
Koch Biology Building
Goody, Clancy & Associates
Chord
Antony Gormley
Yin/Yang Pavilion
Dan Graham
Ring Stone
Cai Guo-Qiang
Cycladic Sentinel
Dimitri Hadzi
Elmo-MIT
Dimitri Hadzi
Guenette
Michael Heizer
Simmons Hall
Steven Holl
Non-Object (Plane)
Anish Kapoor
Against the Run
Alicja Kwade
Birth of the Muses
Jacques Lipchitz
Sacrifice III
Jacques Lipchitz
Hagar in the Desert
Jacques Lipchitz
Bather
Jacques Lipchitz
New Media Lab
Fumihiko Maki
Dispersed Events
Nick Mauss
Coming to Light
James Melchert
Cast-a-way
Elizabeth Murray
Fairchild Buildings
Walter Netsch
Bush Building
Walter Netsch
McNair Building
Walter Netsch
Transparent Horizon
Louise Nevelson
Here-There
Kenneth Noland
Magic Number
Jules Olitski
Untitled
Jorge Pardo
Trinity (Formerly Dunes I)
Beverly Pepper
Alchemist
Jaume Plensa
Ashdown House
William Rawn
Games of Chance and Skill
Matthew Ritchie
Bell Tower for MIT Chapel
Theodore Roszak
Kresge Auditorium
Eero Saarinen
MIT Chapel
Eero Saarinen
Paleos
James Sanborn
Next House Dormitory
Josep Lluis Sert
For Marjorie
Tony Smith
Loohooloo
Frank Stella
Heads or Tails
Frank Stella
Tang Residence Hall
Hugh Stubbins, Jr.
Blue Poles
Sarah Sze
Oxbow
Bill Thompson
Two Indeterminate Lines
Bernar Venet
Light Matrix (MIT)
Leo Villareal
SCIENTIA
Ursula von Rydingsvard
Hayden Memorial Library
Ralph Thomas Walker
Dead Center
Lawrence Weiner
Invaders
Gary Wiley
Angola
Isaac Witkin
Sean Collier Memorial
J. Meejin Yoon
The Public Art Collection at MIT
With the continued growth of the Institute’s public art collection, MIT’s campus has become a destination for art lovers. In order to support the growing interest in the collection from the community at large, the List Center recently launched a new MIT student led tour program, and a new expanded public art map coupled with a mobile web app. You can visit listart.oncell.com for a GPS enabled self guided tour of the collection.
The public art collection and exhibitions at the List Center are always free and open to the general public. To schedule a group tour contact Emily A. Garner, Campus and Public Programs Manager, (email hidden; JavaScript is required).
Public Art Update
In 2019 Alicja Kwade was commissioned to create Against the Run, 2019 a new Percent-for-Art work for MIT’s campus public art collection. This sculptural work, sited on Fleischner’s Upper Courtyard next to MIT Medical is a functioning clock that confounds viewers expectations. The clock face itself rotates counterclockwise, moving in direct opposition to the second hand, which appears to stand still. The minute and hour hands function normally, and the clock indicates the correct time despite simultaneously running in reverse. In this work Kwade challenges our perception of familiar objects and invites us to reimagine time and its visual representation.
In 2018 two percent-for art commissions by Olafur Eliasson and Nick Mauss were completed and added to the Institute’s Public Art Collection.
Olafur Eliasson’s Northwest Passage is situated on the ceiling of the breezeway of Building 12, MIT.nano. Eliasson’s installation spans 90 feet and comprised of 7 LED rings hanging from and reflected in 30 polished stainless-steel panels, welcomes visitors to the building and engages the pedestrian path on the north side of the complex.
Nick Mauss’s Dispersed Events is comprised of seven ceramic tin-glazed murals of varying scales installed throughout the atria and stairways of I.M. Pei’s Landau Chemical Engineering Building (1976). Conceived as an ensemble of works spanning throughout multiple floors, these murals illuminate the concrete interiors of the historic building and activate the spaces of passage, engaging how a viewer moves through and pauses in this unique and complex building.