MASS MoCA

We are less than 72 hours from the opening of Jeffrey Gibson’s POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT in our Building 5 gallery (the exhibition is the size of a futball field y’all). We are grateful for team Gibson, and the many people involved including Chief Curator Denise Markonish, Spencer Byrne-Seres, Director of Exhibitions, exhibition graphic design and communications, art fabrication, carpenters and contractors from buildings and grounds, and custodial who have made this possible. You all are simply the best. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤. Preview celebration Saturday, 11/2. On view Sunday, Nov 3.

Chief Curator Jenny Jaskey brings a fresh perspective to the hollowed walls of The American Academy of Arts and Letters including “Aviary,” an exhibition by Raven Chacon. Versions of Chacon's musical scores which 'resist the notation of Western notation' also appear at MASS MoCA in Like Magic, curated by Alexandra Foradas, a group exhibition representing tools (devices, talismans, rituals, incantations) created to help humanity survive and thrive in a chaotic world. ----- "The American Academy of Arts and Letters, a century-old honor society, sits like a fortress in Upper Manhattan. Housed in a neo-Italian Renaissance complex, it rarely opened its sculpted bronze doors to the general public. Over the years, honorees as varied as Mark Twain, Frank Lloyd Wright, Georgia O’Keeffe, Joan Didion, Robert Caro, Duke Ellington and Stephen Sondheim passed through them. But everyone else? Not so much. That is about to change. The doors are being flung open to the general public and the magnificent Beaux-Arts interior — the buildings were designed by McKim, Mead & White and Cass Gilbert, architects of some of New York City’s most famous landmarks — is being earmarked as a venue for visual and performing artists, and events that combine the two. It’s as if Manhattan’s downtown contemporary art scene is being lured uptown to Washington Heights and to a setting from the Gilded Age." https://lnkd.in/gnnaFy79

How would you spend 36 hours in the Berkshires? Thank you Lauren Matison for the feature in The New York Times as 1 of the top 3 key spots to visit in the Berkshires including a shout out to our on campus restaurant Casita (one of several)! The Berkshires sure is a "slice of rural paradise" - and we love calling it home along with our incredible community of makers of art, theater, music, history, nature and food! #MM25 #LeafPeeping #RoadTrip https://lnkd.in/eS4RcHmc

Look out single use plastics - we're on a mission! Last week, we were honored to be joined by Senator Becca Rausch, Senate Chair of the Joint Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, 3rd Hampshire District Representative Mindy Domb, House Chair of the Joint Committee on Tourism, Arts and Cultural Development, Deputy Commissioner John Beling, MassDEP, 1st Berkshire District Representative John Barrett, and North Adams City Councillors Bryan Sapienza, Andrew Fitch and Ashley Shade, and Tom Bernard president and CEO of Berkshire United Way - all champions of a more sustainable future. Thank you! Artist Robin Frohardt, MASS MoCA Director Kristy Edmunds, and Jenny Gitlitz from Beyond Plastics, shared insights into the intersection of art, policy, and environmental sustainability all within the context of the immersive installation The Plastic Bag Store, now on view at MASS MoCA through Nov 3 only. #Massachusetts Pomegranate Arts #theplasticbagstore #NorthAdams #Berkshires

We are celebrating a national triangle of joy that is also known as artist, Jeffrey Gibson. 🙌🏼 #Boston: “your spirit whispering in my ear” mural with Rose F. Kennedy Greenway Conservancy; “The Spirits Are Laughing” (2024) in #Brooklyn and #Manhattan #NYC; and POWER FULL BECAUSE WE ARE DIFFERENT, a newly commissioned exhibition, in our signature Building 5 gallery at MASS MoCA in the #Berkshires opening Nov 3. Make plans to experience this uplifting moment. 🩷❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 https://lnkd.in/ghGxEf6h

Thank you to the readers of Boston Magazine for selecting MASS MoCA as one of your favorite places to stay and play across New England. We are honored to be selected as Best Museum and in such good company across the region. #SolLewitt #LikeMagic #AnslemKiefer #Wilco The Porches Inn at Mass MoCA TOURISTS #Berkshires #NorthAdamsMA 🍁🍁🍁 🚴🏼🚴🏼♀️🚴♂️ 🦄🌈📸 https://lnkd.in/gViyQhUw

We are thrilled to collaborate with the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway Conservancy in support of world-renowned, multidisciplinary artist Jeffrey Gibson through the Dewey Square installation making its #Boston debut Sept 19. We look forward to seeing you there, and in the #Berkshires in early November for opening weekend of Gibson's newly commissioned, immersive installation POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT, filling our signature Building 5 gallery. Paying homage to the past, while signaling hope for the future, through the lens of queer and Indigenous creatives whose cultural narratives have been historically marginalized is central to Gibson’s work and now the public has two opportunities in Massachusetts to experience it first hand. 🙏 Commonwealth of Massachusetts #VisitMA #JeffreyGibson #artsmatter https://lnkd.in/g7nq9ZV3

HEY LEAF PEEPERS: Our 25th Anniversary Season continues with newly announced fall 2024 programming featuring an immersive exhibition by Jeffrey Gibson in our signature Building 5 gallery, a live performance set to the film Koyaanisqatsi by globally renowned The Philip Glass Ensemble, electrifying dance productions by Afro-Brazilian-inspired Music From The Sole and the all-woman salsa band Lulada Club, Robin Frohardt's The Plastic Bag Store and more! Make your plans to visit us in North Adams while our mountains also show off their spectacular fall foliage! 🍁 🍁 🍁 https://lnkd.in/gRxCt_77

Congratulations to our very own Board of Trustees Chair, Mariko Silver, on her new position leading the transformative next chapter of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts! ——— She will take the reins of Lincoln Center as it works to broaden its audience, navigate an uncertain economy and push through an ambitious plan to tear down the barriers between the center and the surrounding neighborhood. She will also help shape its programming. The appointment is a milestone for Lincoln Center: Silver, 46, whose father is Jewish and mother is Japanese American, will be the first woman of color to serve as president and chief executive. It is also a homecoming of sorts: Silver grew up a few blocks from the center and studied dance and theater as a child. https://lnkd.in/gX7hR_5B

"Priorities have shifted for today’s cultural institutions," says Director Kristy Edmunds. "It’s about helping the community, and helping artists." People have relied on outsized numbers to describe MASS MoCA ever since it first opened in 1999 in the old Sprague Electric Co. factory complex with a two-fold promise: It would bring world-class contemporary art to the Berkshires while also leading an economic revival in this faded factory town... ...After 25 years of odds-defying expansion, MASS MoCA is at a crossroads. The campus still has numerous buildings that could be developed. But instead of expanding the museum’s footprint, director Kristy Edmunds is seeking to usher in a new era of sustainability, stabilizing MASS MoCA’s finances, making its campus more environmentally friendly, and delivering more fully on its economic promise to the city — all while maintaining the museum’s freewheeling spirit. https://lnkd.in/gqY8YV_p