Browsing: MASS MoCA
Just as we get pummeled with snow, there’s no better time to update our preview of spring exhibitions. Many of these are shows that just opened and we hope to catch, as well as a few upcoming events on our…
My life is worn out. Well, let’s pretend, let’s do nothing! oh, pitiful! And we will exist, and amuse ourselves, dreaming of monstrous loves and fantastic worlds, complaining and quarreling with the appearances of the world, acrobat, beggar, artist, bandit,…
As the commercial film industry completes its migration to digital technology, analog film, and the processes and projection technologies associated with it, face obsolescence. A number of artists continue working with celluloid film however, drawn to its unique material and…
North Adams came alive on the weekend of June 20th – 23rd. The town’s 15,000 population increased by 60 percent as 8,000 people poured in for Wilco’s music and arts Solid Sound Festival. As far as the concept of Creative…
Xu Bing: Phoenix, currently on exhibit at MassMoCA, is poetic and political. The artist’s beautiful installations make a traditional artistic statement at first glance. However, an unexpected use of materials gives these works deeper meaning, with insight into Xu’s…
A field guide to recent (and some ongoing as noted) art exhibitions and events in the greater Connecticut River region. Traveling downstream from north to south: Marlboro, VT: Marlboro College, Drury Gallery, Jen Morris: Enunciate Jen Morris Tucked away in…
As an artist, curators have always mystified me a bit. I once had a curator tell me that he preferred to work with “dead artists, because they put up less of a fuss”. I was instantly offended but ultimately, begrudgingly,…
The Buchel fiasco is past, and Building 5 at Mass MoCA has a new installation, PROJECTIONS, by Jenny Holzer. (you can view a webcam image of the installation at http://www.massmoca.org/projections.php). Holzer is reknown internationally for her text pieces which are…