Category: Art & architecture & planning

MIT Receives Personal Papers of Artist Otto Piene

MIT Receives Personal Papers of Artist Otto Piene

The personal papers of the late Otto Piene, a leading figure in kinetic and technology-based art, have been donated to MIT’s Institute Archives, part...

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Ye Li and Kai Alexis Smith named ARL Leadership & Career Development Program fellows

Ye Li and Kai Alexis Smith named ARL Leadership & Career Development Program fellows

Ye Li, chemistry, chemical engineering, materials science and engineering librarian, and Kai Alexis Smith, art, architecture, and urban planning librarian, are among the 24...

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Spy mistress and scientist

Spy mistress and scientist

Laura Bergemann '19 hones conservation skills in the Wunsch Lab

Ever since she heard about the painstaking, 21-year effort to conserve Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper when she was in the eighth grade,...

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Introducing “Distinctive Collections”

Introducing “Distinctive Collections”

New name for Institute Archives and Special Collections reflects the breadth and ambitions of the department

The Institute Archives and Special Collections has been renamed Distinctive Collections, the MIT Libraries announced today. This new name better captures the breadth of...

Preservation & conservation