A celebration of creativity and community at MITArtfinity is a new festival of the arts at MIT featuring 80 free performing and visual arts events, celebrating creativity and community at the Institute. Artfinity launches with the opening of the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building on February 15, 2025, continues with a concentration of events February 28-March 16, and culminates with the Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts public lecture by 2025 recipient artist and designer Es Devlin on May 1, 2025, and a concert by Grammy-winning rapper and Visiting Professor Lupe Fiasco on May 2, 2025. Artfinity embodies MIT’s commitment to creativity, community, and the intersection of art, science and technology. We invite you to join us in this celebration, explore the diverse events, and experience the innovative spirit that defines the arts at MIT.About the Artists Artfinity features the innovative work of MIT faculty, students, staff, and alumni, alongside guest artists from the Greater Boston area and beyond.About the Activities & Events All 80 events are open to the public, including dozens of concerts and performances plus an array of visual arts such as projections, films, installations, exhibitions, and augmented reality experiences, as well as lectures and workshops for attendees to participate in. With a wide range of visual and performing arts events open to all, Artfinity embodies MIT’s commitment to the arts and the intersection of art, science, and technology.About the Presenters Artfinity is an institute-sponsored event organized by the Office of the Arts at MIT with faculty leads Institute Professor of Music Marcus Thompson and Professor of Art, Culture and Technology Azra Akšamija. Departments, labs, centers, and student groups across MIT are presenting partners.Visit arts.mit.edu for more information about the arts at MIT.

February 26, 2025 - July 17, 2025Hidden within MIT’s Distinctive Collections, many architectural elements from the earliest days of the Institute’s architecture program still survive as part of the Rotch Art Collection. Among the artworks that conservators salvaged was a set of striking windows of gypsum and stained-glass, dating to the late 18th- to 19th c. Ottoman Empire. This exhibition illuminates the life of these historic windows, tracing their refracted histories from Egypt to MIT, their ongoing conservation, and the cutting-edge research they still prompt.The Maihaugen Gallery (14N-130) is open Monday through Thursday, 10am - 4pm, excluding Institute holidays.

Join a member of our Visitor Experience Team for this 45-minute introductory tour of the MIT Museum. Learn about the collection, our history, and get your questions answered by our gallery experts. Space is limited, please speak to a visitor experience representative at the admission desk when purchasing museum tickets if you would like to participate in the tour.Every Wednesday at 11am Free with museum admission

Looking for an interesting read?The Book Discussion group will host virtual meetings via Zoom. Please write to Maxine Jonas (jonas_m@mit.edu) to be added to their mailing list. They (almost always) meet on the fourth Wednesday of the month, at 11:30am – 1pm.Upcoming titles: September 25: The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese (736 pages, 2023, fiction) October 23: Silenced Whispers by Afarin, Bellisario (348 pages, 2024, fiction) with the author! December 11: The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins and the Fight for Women in Science by Kate Zernike (363 pages, 2023, non-fiction) January 22: Chasing Beauty, the Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner by Natalie Dykstra (508 pages, 2024, non-fiction) February 26: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (368 pages, 2022, fiction) March 26: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (205 pages, 1937, classic) April 23: A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle (224 pages, 1991, non-fiction) May 28: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (400 pages, 2022, fiction)

Live Hip-Hop and R&B band curated by The Cambridge Hip-Hop Collective, free bike tune ups, bike safety info, food trucks, and more!Stop by with your bike for a safety check with a bicycle technician from Casa Bikes. Tune ups will take place on a first come, first served basis; no advance registration required. Free & open to all.

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions to mitigate climate change is perhaps the most urgent environmental and social challenge of our time. But a transition from fossil fuels to clean energy will require more solar panels, wind turbines, and electric vehicles—increasing demand for metals like copper, lithium, cobalt, and nickel. Mining these materials brings its own social and environmental impacts. In this fireside chat, MIT social scientist Scott Odell will join MIT Horizon executive editor Benjamin Rachlin to discuss the challenges at the intersection of critical mineral mining and the clean energy transition and what industry, government, and individual consumers can do to combat climate change and conserve natural resources.Register for this MIT Horizon webinar.