Time: 7:00 PMLocation: Springfield, MA

Time: 12:00 PMLocation: New London, CT

Time: 6:00 PMLocation: Cambridge, MA

Time: 12:53 PM/1:32 PMLocation: Cambridge, MA

Join MIT List Visual Arts Center on a public art walking tour showcasing the MIT Public Art Collection across the central side of campus.View select artworks and consider how art and architecture have enhanced MIT's campus design, featuring artworks such as Spencer Finch’s Bring me the sunset in a cup and Julian Charrère’s Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More.MIT’s Percent-for-Art Program, administered by the List Visual Arts Center, allocates a portion of the project funds to commission art for each new major renovation or campus construction project. The policy was formally instituted in 1968, but earlier collaborations between artists and architects can be found on MIT’s campus. When architect Eero Saarinen designed the MIT Chapel in 1955, sculptor Theodore Roszak designed the Bell Tower and sculptor Harry Bertoia designed the Altarpiece. In 1985, architect I.M. Pei and artists Scott Burton, Kenneth Noland, and Richard Fleischner collaborated on Percent-for-Art projects for the Wiesner Building and plaza, home to the MIT List Visual Arts Center and the Media Laboratory.This program is free, but registration required.This program is weather dependent. Registered attendees will receive an email the day before the tour date if needed to cancel due to weather conditions.

How do you draw a picture of something you’ve heard about but never seen? How do you see it in the first place?This problem has bedeviled scientists for centuries. Today, we look for things like black holes and gravitational waves. Five hundred years ago, people tried to understand mysterious ocean creatures—like whales.Join an exhibition curator for a tour of Monsters of the Deep to see how sailors, scholars, and everyday people turned monsters into mammals.