MIT List Visual Arts Center

Congratulations to the MIT Class of 2026! 🎓

As you embark on this next chapter, we hope that art continues to spark inspiration and remains a meaningful part of your life.

Our galleries are free and open to all everyday this weekend from 12–6 PM. Explore the public artworks around campus and cool off in our galleries with family and friends!

Tomorrow: Join the List Center for a talk with Graduate Student Paul Dai at 5:30 PM!

In this talk, Dai will bring his research in macro-finance into conversation with artworks by Cally Spooner and Cassie Thornton.

Across both projects, the broader question is how financial structures become lived conditions; how they measure performance, allocate exposure, and determine where the weight of adjustment falls.

Register: https://listart.mit.edu/calendar/graduate-student-talk-paul-dai

Pictured: Cally Spooner, “Self Tracking,” 2018 (detail). Photo: Daniel Perez

Next Week: Join Paul Dai, a PhD student in Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management, for a conversation around “Performing Conditions: Artistic Labor and Dependency as Form” on Thursday, April 30 at 5:30 PM.

Dai will discuss how we might treat financial expansion not as a uniform sign of development, but ask when it instead generates asymmetric dependence and fragility.

Learn more and register: https://listart.mit.edu/calendar/graduate-student-talk-paul-dai

Headshot courtesy Paul Dai