The remaining documentation and artifacts from this event have been compellingly reworked into the traveling exhibition "9 Evenings Reconsidered," curated by Catherine Morris, which originated at the MIT List Visual Arts Center.
DAVID CLAERBOUT LIST VISUAL ARTS CENTER MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS FEBRUARY 8-APRIL 6, 2008 Upon first encountering David Claerbout's work, it is tempting to classify his pieces as either "still" photographs or "moving" pictures but it is likely any attempt to do so would be met by the artist with a sincere "What's the difference?
Now, in a traveling show organized by the List Visual Arts Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Northwesterners have a rare chance to see what amounts to a retrospective of the work of these two New York-based artists, who also happen to be married to each other.
The players this time include Michael Auping of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Valerie Cassel of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Hugh Davies of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Jane Farver, currently of the Queens Museum but soon to be of the List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Andrea Miller-Keller, a Hartford, Connecticut-based independent curator (and 1996 Sao Paulo Biennale commissioner); and Lawrence Rinder of the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland.
MIT LIST VISUAL ARTS CENTER Massachusetts artist Robert Cumming was featured in Boston this fall in three concurrent exhibitions: a major retrospective of photography, works on paper, sculpture, and painting at the Museum of Fine Arts; a small show of drawings and two sculptures at the Howard Yezerski Gallery; and an intriguing new installation piece at MIT, entitled The Blackboard Brain, 1993.
