Argentine artist Ad Minoliti is charging a gallery with the energy of a circus tent or a carnival in Fantasías Modulares, in her solo show of bright geometric and abstract paintings at Mass MoCA.
Read articleGamaliel Rodríguez draws mills, mountains and possible futures at Mass MoCA
Puerto Rican artist Gamaliel Rodríguez has drawn a landscape of mills and mountains by hand in a 60-foot-long mural along the hallway outside the Hunter Center at Mass MoCA.
Read articleChoreographer Camille A. Brown explores humanity and superpowers in ‘Ink’
A man and a woman rest their heads together, forehead to temple. Two young men lean shoulder to shoulder, looking up, as though they’re finding light in the night sky. In Bessie awardwinning choreographer Camille A. Brown’s Ink, they are superheroes set to fly.
Read articleAcclaimed artist Cauleen Smith talks on the Time of Now at Mass MoCA (BTW column)
Cauleen Smith,an internationally acclaimed artist based in Los Angeles, presents We Already Have What We Need at Mass MoCA, a broad retrospective in film and painting, fiber art and music.
Read articleInternationally acclaimed artist Doug Aitken launches New Horizon
It will gleam like lake water and drift in a clear sky. In late July, the internationally acclaimed artist Doug Aitken will bring a new work to the Berkshires. And it will fly. New Horizon is an abstract sculpture and a moving stage — and a hot air balloon. By […]
Read articleWilliam Kentridge honors Africa in World War I
You have already taken all I have. Now you are taking my son. The words appear on a vast wall. At center stage a man faces a round microphone, as though he is speaking on the radio in 1918. He is reliving the history of Africa in World War I — a […]
Read articlePitch installation at Mass MoCA roots deep in Florida land and history
The sounds come from North Florida. A choir is singing a spiritual, a woman is speaking, crickets are droning in a cedar swamp. They are indicators of things that are changing, says New York artist Allison Janae Hamilton — insects, the migratory patterns of birds, people living with the land. […]
Read articleArtists in residence measure a better future at Mass MoCA
Carlos Rodriguez had gotten off a plane from Puerto Rico the day before. When he came from his Brooklyn studio into this quiet room in North Adams, he felt exhausted. He wanted a warm place. So he made one. Across two walls he has hung cloth with a warm golden […]
Read articleA rocket lands on the roof at Mass MoCA (BTW column)
On the ceiling in chalk it said “I went to the skies because I wished to live deliberately.” Equations surrounded it, as though the person lying on this bunk jotted notes by lamp light at night. On the shelf behind the bunk stood a line of tomato preserves in glass […]
Read articleContemporary sculptures gleam on a winter morning at Mass MoCA
This morning, I came to hear the Mass MoCA winter season announced — art and events across the next few months, leading up to William Kentridge’s residency in May. He will come with a troupe of more than 50 performers for a two-week residency and performance of his in-progress work, The Head and […]
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