As mechanical reproductions of sound, in order to be heard, a vinyl record must be taken out of its sleeve, held in one’s hands, and placed onto a turntable before the needle can drop and sound can escape. In 2010, the Nasher Art Museum at Duke University curated one of the first art exhibits dedicated exclusively to the record. At a time when music has gone digital, The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl (on view at The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston from April 15 to September 5, 2011) incorporates artwork from the 1960s to the present by forty-one artists, who examine their subject as sound, as material, and as symbol.

As mechanical reproductions of sound, in order to be heard, a vinyl record must be taken out of its sleeve, held in one’s hands, and placed onto a turntable before the needle can drop and sound can escape. In 2010, the Nasher Art Museum at Duke University curated one of the first art exhibits dedicated exclusively to the record. At a time when music has gone digital, The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl (on view at The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston from April 15 to September 5, 2011) incorporates artwork from the 1960s to the present by forty-one artists, who examine their subject as sound, as material, and as symbol.

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