MASS MoCA Winter/Spring 2019 Brochure

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WINTER/SPRING 2019

This past spring, William Kentridge’s The Head & the Load brought a troupe of 60 South Africans to North Adams for an extended residency that called on every available stage technician and art fabricator in our midst. We loved the intense cross-collaboration between our performing arts and visual arts production teams, and so did our artists and our audiences.

Continuing in that collaborative frame of mind this winter, our rigorous artist residency program will bring together composer and musician Bryce Dessner of The National, our good friends Roomful of Teeth, and their team of creators to develop a new work, Triptych, inspired by the art of Robert Mapplethorpe.

Look for artist Trenton Doyle Hancock to push us too, with his vast Building 5 exhibition Mind of the Mound: Critical Mass — a wildly colorful, intricately detailed world that will serve as a launchpad for performing artists George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, Sammus, and Soul Science Lab — as well as Trent’s artist talk with screen legend Frank Oz. …Speaking of Yoda, artist Jarvis Rockwell recently installed an uplifting show that is a must­­-see. In the coming months Tom Slaughter takes over a 200' long hall in our Hunter Center foyer, Rafa Esparza browns one of our only white cube galleries, and Laurie Anderson invites us for a closer look at her video, in a survey that can fill your whole afternoon. Don’t miss Suffering from Realness in the main galleries — since we all are these days.

We’ll bring you lots of rock and art and fun — including headline concerts with Car Seat Headrest, Mitski, and the Punch Brothers. We know you love to laugh, so get ready for our High Mud Comedy Festival on March 29 & 30.

We get to work with guitar phenom Kaki King, and with Wilco percussionist Glenn Kotche on two ambitious new shows. Together with our friends at Jacob's Pillow Dance, we look forward to hosting the inimitable Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo and Boston-based choreographer Ian Berg. Finally, don’t overlook our formidable Club B10 series — home of Thursday night documentary films in March and April, and cozy (sometimes raucous) nights of music all season long.

Sue Killam Director of Performing Arts + Film

Denise Markonish Senior Curator

P.S. Support our sponsors! Become a member if you’re not already!

But most importantly — visit us early and visit us often. We are here, and hope you will be too.

Perfectly Clear (Ganzfeld), 1991 gift of Jennifer Turrell © James Turrell, Photo by Florian Holzherr

Dear Friends,

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AEON RITUAL

CAR SEAT HEADREST with NAKED GIANTS

Sat. January 12, 8pm

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PERFORMANCE

RAFA ESPARZA

DATA NOT FOUND

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Sat. February 23, 8pm

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LIVE MUSIC

BISBEE '17

Sat. January 19, 8pm

Thurs. February 28, 7pm

ORGANIZED CHAOS (OUR SPECIALTY)

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DANCE

LES BALLETS TROCKADERO de MONTE CARLO

Sat. January 26 11am-7pm

Sat. March 2, 8pm

WORK-IN-PROGRESS: MUSIC + ART

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TRIPTYCH

Thurs. March 7, 7pm

Sat. January 26, 8pm

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LIVE MUSIC

KAVITA SHAH

TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK Sat. March 9, 5:30pm

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COCKTAILS WITH CURATORS

& PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC Sat. March 9, 8pm

Fri. February 15, 6pm P.16

MEMBERS LOUNGE CAR SEAT HEADREST

Fri. February 15, 7pm

LIVE MUSIC

GEORGE CLINTON

ALEXANDRA FORADAS

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OPENING RECEPTION

Sat. February 9, 8pm

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DOCUMENTARY FILM SERIES

306 HOLLYWOOD

(EYES OF ONE ON ANOTHER)

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DOCUMENTARY FILM SERIES

BLIND BOY PAXTON

FREE DAY

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KAKI KING

Sat. January 19, 4pm

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LIVE MUSIC

DOCUMENTARY FILM SERIES

GENESIS 2.0 Thurs. March 14, 7pm

WINTER/SPRING 2019

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LIVE MUSIC

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COCKTAILS WITH CURATORS

PUNCH BROTHERS Sat. March 16, 8pm

DENISE MARKONISH Sat. April 13, 6pm

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DOCUMENTARY FILM SERIES

MEMBERS LOUNGE

ETHIOPIQUES

SAMMUS

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Sat. April 13, 7pm

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LIVE MUSIC

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SPANGLISH FLY

SAMMUS

Sat. March 23, 8pm

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COMEDY FESTIVAL

LIVE MUSIC

HIGH MUD

MITSKI

March 29–30

Sat. April 20, 8pm

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TOUR

POP-UP EXHIBITION

TEEN INVITATIONAL

INTERNATIONAL SLOW ART DAY

April 26–28

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WORK-IN-PROGRESS: UNDEFINABLE

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FISHING

SUBJECT MATTER

Sat. April 6, 8pm

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Sat. May 4, 8pm

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ARTIST TALK

LIVE MUSIC

LES NUBIANS

TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK & FRANK OZ

Sat. May 11, 8pm

Wed. April 10, 6:30pm P.17

PERFORMANCE + TALK

VINCENT VALDEZ & ADRIANA CORRAL

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SOUL SCIENCE LAB Sat. May 18, 8pm

Sat. April 13, 4pm

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Saturday, January 12, 8pm

AEON RITUAL Color is light This ecstatic, immersive musical performance occupies the space between concert and traditional religious or ceremonial rites. Developed by electroacoustic collective Infinite Palette, Aeon Ritual features new work by musiciancomposers Hanna Benn, William Brittelle, Ian Chang, Seth Olinsky, Mariel Roberts, Darian Thomas, Emily Wells and Daniel Wohl. The music is presented in a specially conceived setting to highlight the spiritual.

HUNTER CENTER | $14 ADVANCE | $22 DAY OF This program is supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Photo: Cameron Wittig

LIVE MUSIC

Saturday, January 19, 8pm

BLIND BOY PAXTON Delta blues like it's meant to be Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton is, in the words of The Wall Street Journal, “virtually the only music-maker of his generation — playing guitar, banjo, piano and violin, among other implements—to fully assimilate the blues idiom of the 1920s and ’30s.”

This storyteller and deeply talented multi-instrumentalist will captivate with his musical literacy and authentic blues.

CLUB B10 | $15 STUDENTS | $17 ADVANCE $26 DAY OF | $40 PREFERRED Sponsored by the Hans and Kate Morris Fund for New Music Photo: Bill Steber

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ORGANIZED CHAOS (OUR SPECIALTY)

FREE DAY We're turning it up to 11.

We’ll amplify your MASS MoCA experience when we throw open the doors to the museum for free and fill the galleries with art-making activities, lively discussions, and pop-up performances. Create some art, take a tour, catch some live music in the elevator, and learn about the history of our life on Marshall Street.

Saturday, January 26, 11am–7pm

Sponsored by MountainOne and Berkshire Gas

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Robert Mapplethorpe, Embrace, 1982 © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Used by permission.

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TRIPTYCH

(EYES OF ONE ON ANOTHER) Thirty years after Robert Mapplethorpe’s death, we still cannot turn away from his photographs. Triptych (Eyes of One on Another) brings together composer Bryce Dessner (The National) and a team of extraordinary collaborators including director Daniel Fish, librettist Korde Arrington, and Roomful of Teeth in a work that — through music, projection, and theatrical lighting — puts us inside the artist’s bold, voracious view of how nature and humans look, touch, feel, hurt, and love one another. Q+A to follow.

Contains mature content

Saturday, January 26, 8pm HUNTER CENTER | $10 STUDENTS | $17 ADVANCE $26 DAY OF | $35 PREFERRED

Produced by ArKtype / Thomas O. Kriegsmann in cooperation with The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation This program is supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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LIVE MUSIC

Saturday, February 9, 8pm

KAVITA SHAH A voice that spans the globe The stunning vocalist and composer Kavita Shah works elements of Brazilian, West African, and Indian musical traditions into a jazz delivery reminiscent of Norah Jones. NPR has praised her “amazing dexterity for musical languages.” Our intimate club space is the perfect venue for this transcendent musician.

CLUB B10 | $15 STUDENTS | $17 ADVANCE $26 DAY OF | $40 PREFERRED Sponsored by the Hans and Kate Morris Fund for New Music

Photo: Julien Charpentier

WORK-IN-PROGRESS: LIVE MUSIC

Saturday, February 23, 8pm

KAKI KING: DATA NOT FOUND

Journey to the Center of the Database Jazz/shoegaze/post-rock wizard Kaki King opens a portal every time she touches her guitar. In the intimate Club B10, she brings us on an exploration of big data in contemporary culture. This multimedia journey is in collaboration with Data Humanism advocate Giorgia Lupi and video designer Max Bernstein.

CLUB B10 | $15 STUDENTS | $17 ADVANCE $26 DAY OF | $40 PREFERRED In consultation with creative producers Greg Kastelman & Vickie Starr This program is supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Photo: Simone Cecchetti

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Photo: Mikeal Beland

LIVE MUSIC

CAR SEAT HEADREST

with NAKED GIANTS Indie genius Born from outsider origins and indie pop, Car Seat Headrest has evolved from the homespun solo project of Will Toledo to a four-piece outfit that generates intricate masterworks of pop music and draws comparisons to everyone from the Beach Boys to Pavement. See the internet’s finest IRL when Car Seat Headrest combines forces with Naked Giants for a night of postmodern punk, enigmatic witticisms, and head-banging.

Friday, February 15, 8pm HUNTER CENTER | $25 ADVANCE | $35 DAY OF | $50 PREFERRED

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Photo: Sascha Vaughan

DANCE

LES BALLETS TROCKADERO de MONTE CARLO CO-PRESENTED with

JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE “The funniest night you will ever have at the ballet” ­— Sunday Times Celebrating its 44th anniversary season, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo is the world’s foremost all-male comedy ballet company, performing both en pointe and en travesti. The drag-clad Trocks got their start in the 1970s at late-late shows in off-off-Broadway lofts, and have since become one of the most popular, critically recognized, and outright funny dance companies in the world. By exaggerating the foibles and accidents of serious dance, they bring a whimsical spirit to the ballet repertoire.

Saturday, March 2, 8pm HUNTER CENTER $20 STUDENTS | $40 ADVANCE | $55 DAY OF | $75 PREFERRED

This program is supported in part by the Irene Hunter Fund for Dance at MASS MoCA in association with Jacob's Pillow Dance.

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LIVE MUSIC

GEORGE CLINTON & PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC Dr. Funkenstein's Last Mission Do not attempt to adjust your radio. There is nothing wrong. The Prime Minister of Funk, George Clinton, is steering the Mothership into MASS MoCA for a special stop on his final tour at the helm of the everlasting P-Funk — at the invitation of exhibiting artists Allison Janae Hamilton and Trenton Doyle Hancock. Clinton, the soon-to-be-retired architect of Afrofuturism, is an artistic touchstone for Hancock, whose work is built around a deeply detailed mythology inspired by superheroes, science fiction, Greek myths, moral relativism, and religion. Hamilton, whose evocative Pitch is on view through March 17, named her work Atomic Dog for one of Clinton's albums. A night of super-heroic and mystical funk touches down in North Adams.

Saturday, March 9, 8pm HUNTER CENTER | $39 STUDENTS | $45 ADVANCE | $55 DAY OF | $75 PREFERRED

This program is supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Photo: Josh Goleman

FRESHGRASS Presents

LIVE MUSIC

PUNCH BROTHERS Favorite sons of bluegrass With their dazzling 2018 Nonesuch Records release All Ashore, Punch Brothers decisively re-established themselves as the world’s most exciting progressive bluegrass band. Each member’s various other projects (not least, Chris Thile’s Live from Here) keep them busy enough that an increasingly rare chance to see them together is not to be missed. It’s like a magic dose of FreshGrass exactly when we all yearn for a little green.

Saturday, March 16, 8pm HUNTER CENTER | $39 ADVANCE | $49 DAY OF | $65 PREFERRED

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Saturday, March 23, 8pm

SPANGLISH FLY The boogaloo revival Blending Afro-Caribbean rhythms with classic R&B and soul, the 12-piece-strong Spanglish Fly is NYC’s finest boogaloo band, updating the sounds of 1960s Spanish Harlem. Expect a night of deep grooves with wild covers and horn-heavy originals — wear your dancing shoes.

CLUB B10 | $15 STUDENTS | $17 ADVANCE $26 DAY OF | $40 PREFERRED Sponsored by the Hans and Kate Morris Fund for New Music

Photo courtesy of the artist

COMEDY FESTIVAL

March 29–30

HIGH MUD COMEDY FESTIVAL Can we laugh yet?

Our annual salute to a few funny things will gather a diverse group of comedians to prod us with humor in this heightened moment. Come for laugh-filled workshops, wickedly mocking museum tours, and hilarious musical interludes.

Follow our line-up announcements at massmoca.org/highmud

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Saturday, April 6, 8pm

FISHING “Calling Glenn” (and Jon) This work-in-progress offers a first look at the new all-star collaboration between director/choreographer/provocateur Danielle Agami, actor Jon Hamm, and Wilco percussionist Glenn Kotche — a ravishing piece of multidisciplinary performance that explores the beautiful, simple absurdity of desire.

HUNTER CENTER | $20 STUDENTS $30 ADVANCE | $40 DAY OF | $54 PREFERRED This program is supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Photo: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for SXSW

LIVE MUSIC

Saturday, April 13, 8pm

SAMMUS Hip-hop is good for your brain Philly-based MC and beat-maker Sammus combines an explosive stage presence with head-spinning verbal pyrotechnics and an omnivorous curiosity — she’s as likely to geek out on gaming as to throw down on identity politics, making her performance a perfect companion to Mind of the Mound: Critical Mass in the big gallery. Whatever she’s rapping about, the beats are ferocious, and the rhymes are tight.

CLUB B10 | $15 STUDENTS | $17 ADVANCE $26 DAY OF | $40 PREFERRED This program is supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Hans and Kate Morris Fund for New Music.

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Photo: Bao Ngo

LIVE MUSIC

MITSKI “The 21st century's poet laureate of young adulthood” — NPR With her breakout 2016 record, Puberty 2 — all raw honesty and stripped-down intensity — Mitski seemed to emerge into the indie limelight as a fully formed artist, immediately landing on every critic’s year’s best list. Her brilliant 2018 follow-up, Be the Cowboy, veers sonically into pop, and the writing is as powerful as ever. Iggy Pop says, “she’s probably the most advanced American songwriter that I know.” The Mitski buzz will only get louder; get your tickets early for this one.

Saturday, April 20, 8pm HUNTER CENTER | $30 ADVANCE | $40 DAY OF | $55 PREFERRED

Sponsored by the Hans and Kate Morris Fund for New Music

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POP-UP EXHIBITION

April 26 -28

TEEN INVITATIONAL A collaboration with high school art teachers, principals, and artists in the northern Berkshires, MASS MoCA’s 9th annual Teen Invitational brings local students’ and instructors’ work to the public for one long weekend — and one fun party.

Catch the best of our young local talent, on view in the main galleries from April 26 through April 28 (and celebrate Friday night with a rollicking awards ceremony and student-curated live music).

Cheering allowed.

Photo: Jane Burns

Core education funding is provided by the W.L.S. Spencer Foundation. The MASS MoCA Teen Invitational is supported by an anonymous donor, the Hearst Foundation, Milton and Dorothy Sarnoff Raymond Foundation, Feigenbaum Foundation, Holly Swett, and the Cooper Meadow Fund of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation. The Milton and Dorothy Sarnoff Raymond Foundation gives in memory of Sandy and Lynn Laitman.

WORK-IN-PROGRESS: DANCE + MUSIC

Saturday, May 4, 8pm

IAN BERG: SUBJECT MATTER CO-PRESENTED WITH

JACOB’S PILLOW DANCE Expect live music and high-flying hoofing at this work-in-progress performance as Boston-based choreographer Ian Berg examines the intersections of tap and jazz, specifically how standards — like “Take the A Train” in jazz and “The Shim Sham Song” in tap — work to maintain our collective memory.

CLUB B10 | $14 ADVANCE $23 DAY OF | $30 PREFERRED This program is supported in part by the Irene Hunter Fund for Dance at MASS MoCA in partnership with Jacob's Pillow Dance.

Photo: Yi-Chun Wu

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LIVE MUSIC

Saturday, May 11, 8pm

LES NUBIANS CO - PRESENTED WITH

O+ NORTH ADAMS

Positive vibrations Les Nubians is the French-Cameroonian duo whose 1998 debut earned a Grammy nom for its singular blend of warm R&B and francophone hip-hop. Two decades later, the grooves are as strong and danceable as ever — and the perfect party to close out North Adams’ first-ever O+ Festival. opositivefestival.org/north-adams HUNTER CENTER | $15 ADVANCE $17 DAY OF | FREE WITH O+ WRISTBAND

Photo courtesy of the artist

O+ reinvigorates communities by exchanging the art of medicine for the medicine of art. O+ Festival is co-sponsored

by Berkshire Health Systems.

LIVE MUSIC

Saturday, May 18, 8pm

SOUL SCIENCE LAB Let your soul glow Trenton Doyle Hancock recently introduced us to Soul Science Lab, the music and multimedia duo Chen Lo and Asante Amin. Backed by a smoking-hot live band, they transport us on an inspiring journey of cross-cultural exploration via words and video, all wrapped in an irresistible soundtrack of hip-hop, funk, soul, and Afrobeat.

CLUB B10 | $15 STUDENTS | $17 ADVANCE $26 DAY OF | $40 PREFERRED Sponsored by the Hans and Kate Morris Fund for New Music Photo courtesy of the artist

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DOCUMENTARY FILM SERIES

PRESENT TENSE Documentaries that reframe the past as an acute lens for examining the right now.

CLUB B10 | $5 STUDENTS | $9 ADVANCE + DAY OF | $5 MEMBERS

Thursday, February 28, 7pm

BISBEE '17 A century-old episode of anti-union violence on the Arizona-Mexico border still resonates.

Photo courtesy of the artist

Thursday, March 7, 7pm

306 HOLLYWOOD Sibling directors Elan and Jonathan Bogarín’s wildly creative examination of the life of their grandmother and the unusual house and possessions she left behind.

Photo courtesy of the artist

Thursday, March 14, 7pm

GENESIS 2.0 Photo courtesy of the artist

The story of harvesting woolly mammoth tusks in remote Siberia illuminates the potential of genetic research and synthetic biology — the mind-boggling means by which researchers hope to bring extinct species back to life.

Thursday, March 21, 7pm

ETHIOPIQUES REVOLT OF THE SOUL

Photo courtesy of the artist

The vibrant, 1960’s jazz-funk of Addis Ababa — nearly lost to the world — sprung from political turmoil and repression.

This film reveals the power of music to shift culture and lives.

A better way to spend your Thursday nights.

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PERFORMANCE

Saturday, January 19, 4pm

RAFA ESPARZA

Rafa Esparza transforms one of MASS MoCA’s only “white cube” spaces into a brown gallery made of earth. He opens the exhibition with a performance transforming earth into palpable brown matter meant to be experienced as flesh.

Photo courtesy of the artist

FREE WITH MUSEUM ADMISSION

TOUR

Saturday, April 6, 11am–2pm

INTERNATIONAL SLOW ART DAY

The average museum-goer spends just 10 seconds with any given work of art. Turn that truth on its head with contemplative walks through our expansive galleries, and go in deep with tours focused on single works of art.

Photo: Florian Holzherr

FREE WITH MUSEUM ADMISSION

ARTIST TALK

Wednesday, April 10, 6:30pm

TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK & FRANK OZ

Join exhibiting artist Trenton Doyle Hancock as he discusses his lifelong practice of character creation and myth building with screen legend Frank Oz. The two will talk about the creative process, pop culture, and identity, in what promises to be a riveting night of conversation.

HUNTER CENTER | STUDENTS – FREE | $10 GENERAL ADMISSION Photo courtesy of the artist

PERFORMANCE + TALK

Saturday, April 13, 4pm

VINCENT VALDEZ & ADRIANA CORRAL

Suffering From Realness artists Vincent Valdez and Adriana Corral mark the opening of this new exhibition with a procession of their sculpture Requiem, a larger-thanlife cast of an American eagle, accompanied by parading musicians — recalling a New Orleans-style jazz funeral.

The artists will discuss their work following the event.

Photo: Kaelan Burkett

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Trenton Doyle Hancock, Becoming the Toymaker, Phase 14 of 41, or Common Phenomemon or Simply Commonenon, 2017

EXHIBITION

TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK

MIND OF THE MOUND : CRITICAL MASS Houston-based artist Trenton Doyle Hancock puts his largest-ever exhibition on display in MASS MoCA’s signature Building 5 gallery. Hancock, who has been developing his own creation mythology since adolescence, is known mostly for his paintings and drawings. Here he brings his iconic characters to life in an installation that’s part toy fair, part myth-themed amusement park, and all deeply personal.

Leaving no surface untouched, Hancock invites us to step inside giant Mound sculptures, whose kaleidoscopic interiors have run to wild, color-saturated proliferation.

Members Opening Reception Saturday, March 9, 5:30–7pm Principal exhibition support is provided by an anonymous donor. Lead support is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts with contributing support from Leigh and Reggie Smith. Major exhibition support is provided by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the Barr Foundation, and the Mass Cultural Council.

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Titus Kaphar, Seeing Through Time, 2018

EXHIBITION

SUFFERING FROM REALNESS

Suffering from Realness examines the human condition through works in all media — some intimate and personal, some transglobal and plainly political. Addressing hot-button issues like racism, violence, gender equality, and the politicized body of wartime, the show also asks big questions about the complexity of responsibility and the future of true, civil debate. Featuring: Aziz+Cucher, Cassils, Adriana Corral, Joey Fauerso, Jeffrey Gibson, Hayv Kahraman, Jennifer Karady, Titus Kaphar, Robert Longo, Christopher Mir, MPA, Wangechi Mutu, Allison Schulnik, Keith Sklar, Robert Taplin, and Vincent Valdez

On view beginning Saturday, April 13, with performance Principal exhibition support is provided by Christopher and Alida Latham, with contributing support from Bridget Rigas. Major exhibition support is provided by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the Barr Foundation, and the Mass Cultural Council. The exhibition catalog is made possible in part by the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation.

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EXHIBITION

On view now

JARVIS ROCKWELL US

Jarvis Rockwell views toy figures as “beings,” or “alternatives to us,” which we use to act out repressed hopes, fears, and desires. Installed in Building 6’s historic light well, the figures in Us are culled from Rockwell’s own collection and meticulously arranged by the artist in an extended series of witty juxtapositions. They ascend two stories, processing along suspended glass panels before “going on to glory.”

Major exhibition support is provided by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the Barr Foundation, and the Mass Cultural Council.

Jarvis Rockwell, Us, 2018

EXHIBITION

On view now

LAURIE ANDERSON VIDEO

A selection of Laurie Anderson’s most recognizable stories and essays are on a continuous loop in her centerpiece gallery space, which she has reinvented as a screening room. Including Home of the Brave (1986); O Superman (1982); and National Anthem (1990). Slow down, grab a pillow, and make a whole day of it.

Principal exhibition support is provided by the Sakana Foundation. Major support is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts; the Rainbow Initiative Funds for Collaborative Cultural Project by Ministry of Culture, Taiwan; and National Chengchi University, Taiwan. Additional support is provided by Bowers & Wilkins.

Laurie Anderson, still from Headknock, 1979

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EXHIBITION

On view beginning January 12

TOM SLAUGHTER ICON ALPHABET

Rendered in bold lines and bright primary colors, Tom Slaughter’s drawings, paintings, and cut-paper collages present familiar images — sunglasses, water towers, boats, and hats — pared down to their essential characteristics. Slaughter’s joyful imagery (sourced from work by daughters Hannah and Nell Jocelyn, and composed for this space by Jimmy Mezei) will stretch across the gallery’s 40-foot-long wall.

Member's Opening Reception Saturday, March 9, 5:30–7pm Major exhibition support is provided by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the Barr Foundation, and the Mass Cultural Council.

Tom Slaughter, Untitled (Blue windows), 1989

EXHIBITION

On view beginning Saturday, January 19, with performance

RAFA ESPARZA staring at the sun

Visual and performance artist Rafa Esparza has turned to his own body as an instrumental force that bears witness to the fast-shifting landscape of Los Angeles.

At MASS MoCA, his staring at the sun signals a return to painting for the artist.

Here Esparza covers the floor with adobe brick and creates a landscape built of brown bodies on the wall, then paints on the surface of dried mud.

Rafa Esparza: staring at the sun is made possible by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in support of MASS MoCA and the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art.

Rafa Esparza, detail of New American Landscapes. Self Portrait: Catching Feelings (Ecstatic), 2017.

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ALSO ON VIEW LONG-TERM

ROTATING EXHIBITIONS

JAMES TURRELL

RACHEL HOWARD On view through March 10

LOUISE BOURGEOIS JENNY HOLZER LAURIE ANDERSON GUNNAR SCHONBECK ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG SPENCER FINCH JANICE KERBEL JOSEPH BEUYS JOE WARDWELL MARY LUM METABOLIC STUDIO/OPTICS DIVISION SOL LEWITT SARAH CROWNER BARBARA ERNST PREY JULIANNE SWARTZ MICAH LEXIER NATALIE JEREMIJENKO CHRISTINA KUBISCH

AROUND NORTH ADAMS VICTORIA PALERMO DON GUMMER MIKE GLIER

THE LURE OF THE DARK On view through March 10 ALLISON JANAE HAMILTON On view through March 17 TARYN SIMON On view through March 24 DAWN DEDEAUX AND LONNIE HOLLEY NATASHA BOWDOIN NICHOLAS WHITMAN

SEASONAL Exhibitions Reopening April 13 MICHAEL OATMAN MARKO REMEC RICHARD NONAS STEPHEN VITIELLO BRUCE ODLAND AND SAM AUINGER ZAROUHIE ABDALIAN Exhibitions Reopening May 26 ANSELM KIEFER FRANZ WEST

WALTER FÄHNDRICH

KIDSPACE

KLAAS HÜBNER AND ANDREW SCHROCK

COME TO YOUR SENSES

Core education funding is provided by the W.L.S. Spencer Foundation.

Education at MASS MoCA is made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Major education support is provided by George and Valerie Kennedy, MountainOne, John F. and Judith B. Remondi, Samantha and Daniel Becker, John DeRosa, the Ruth E. Proud Charitable Trust, Anne and Greg Avis, Linda Genereux and Timur Galen, Chrystina Geagan Parks and James R. Parks, the Milton and Dorothy Sarnoff Raymond Foundation, the Feigenbaum Foundation, Anders and Yukiko Schroeder, Holly Swett, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Additional education support is provided by the Mass Cultural Council, the Hemera Foundation, the Charles H. Hall Foundation, the Arthur I. and Susan Maier Fund, Scott and Lisa Stuart, Elizabeth Wadsworth and Paul Peppis, the Bessie Pappas Charitable Foundation, the Gateway Fund and the William J. and Margery S. Barrett Fund of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Duncan and Susan Brown, Patrick Sweeney, the Adelard A. Roy and Valeda Lea Roy Foundation, Sarah and Timothy Eustis, Anna Farrington, Will Frears, Amy B. Hudson, Adam Lippes, Daniel Mathieu and Thomas Potter, William Plapinger and Cassie Murray, Charlie and Amy Scharf, Jeffrey and Stacey Weber, Guido's Fresh Marketplace, and anonymous (2).

The Milton and Dorothy Sarnoff Raymond Foundation gives in memory of Sandy and Lynn Laitman.

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Brynna Bloomfield, Joy, 2018. Photo: Billy Simms

EXHIBITION

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MAJOR SEASON SUPPORT Anonymous; Allen & Company; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Anne and Gregory Avis; Barr Foundation; Joyce Bernstein and Lawrence Rosenthal; Linda Genereux and Timur Galen; Institute of Museum and Library Services, Government Agency; Jennifer and Jonathan Allan Soros Foundation; Allison and Edward Johnson; Daniel R. Lewis; Marian Goodman Gallery; Mass Cultural Council; Brenda R. Potter; Susy and Jack Wadsworth Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation; Alan Beller; the Bohen Foundation; Alessia Bulgari; Gregory Crewdson and Juliane Hiam; the Educational Foundation of America; Bridget and Donald Fawcett; Wendy Fisher; Chrystina Geagan Parks and James R. Parks; Robert L. Gold; Francis Greenburger and Isabelle Autones; Agnes Gund; Andrew and Barbara Gundlach; Scott and Ellen Hand; Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation; Orion Howard; Margaret and Joseph Koerner; Massachusetts Growth Capital Corporation; Hans and Kate Morris; National Endowment for the Arts; Eileen and Robert Rominger; Anders and Yukiko Schroeder; Mark Simonian and Sheila Harley; Surdna Foundation; US Department of Agriculture, Rural Development; W.L.S. Spencer Foundation; Williams College; Elisabeth Roche Wilmers George W. Ahl III; Jessica Antonini; the Artist's Resource Trust (A.R.T.) Fund, a fund of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation; Arts Midwest; Daniel and Samantha Becker; Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation; Bloomberg Philanthropies; Simeon Bruner; Citi; Jennifer and Ian Deason; Steven and Roberta Denning; John DeRosa; John L. Gardiner; Susan W. Gold; Joey and Ragnar Horn; Joan and Jim Hunter; JKW Foundation; Joan Mitchell Foundation; George and Valerie Kennedy; the Milton and Dorothy Sarnoff Raymond Foundation; Nancy A. Nasher and David Haemisegger; The Porches Inn at MASS MoCA; The Robert W. Wilson Charitable Trust; Ruth E. Proud Charitable Trust; Charlie Thurston; Elizabeth Wadsworth and Paul Peppis; Yale University Anonymous; AVANGRID Foundation; Berkshire Gas; Ellen J. Bernstein; Bradley and Terrie Bloom; Duncan and Susan Brown; City of Boston; City of North Adams; Connecticut Dept. of Economic and Community Development; Paula Cooper and Jack Macrae; Lake Coreth and Thomas Jennings; Peter Dey and Phyllis Ortved; Adrian and Liz Ann Doherty; Elizabeth Easton and James Traub; Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation; Feigenbaum Foundation; Formlabs; William F. Gorin and Mary Bernard; Donald Gummer and Meryl Streep; Hall Art Foundation; Andrew and Christine Hall; Frances Hellman and Warren Breslau; Highland Street Foundation; Peter and Marty Hurley; Elizabeth Johnson; Alix and Pam Karlan; Carol LeWitt; Dorothy Lichtenstein; Joyce Linde; Mary and Jackie Lusardi; Michael Makover; Mass Humanities; Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts; Renee G. and Hugh McColl; the Midas Collaborative; The Mohn Family Foundation; MountainOne; Sandra Muss; New

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England Foundation for the Arts; Caroline Niemczyk; North Adams Public Schools; Jeryl and Steve Oristaglio; Paula Cooper Gallery; Ken and Jennifer Pendery; Rhode Island State Council on the Arts; Robert Rauschenberg Foundation; Stephen and Andrea Ryan; Joan and Michael Salke; Dan Schulman and Jennie Kassanoff; Benjamin Seiler; Andrew Siciliano and Alexandra Ivey; Carol and Bob Stegeman; Jordan Steinberg; Else Steiner; Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute; Callie Sullivan and Hugh Montgomery; Holly Swett; Jay and Rachel Tarses; David and Julie Tobey; Mariët Westermann and Charles Pardoe Naomi Aberly and Laurence Lebowitz; the Arthur I. and Susan Maier Fund; Thomas and Lily Beischer; Joan Benjamin and Laurence Cherkis; David Booth and Jane Garnett; Mark and Lauren Booth; Bright Ideas Brewing; Paul and Katie Buttenwieser; Kay and Elliot Cattarulla; Chip and Michele Moeller Chandler; Charles H. Hall Foundation; Stacy and Eric Cochran; Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States; Caroline Cunningham and Donald Young; Anouk Dey and Cameron Tudhope; Dorothea L. Leonhardt Foundation; Nancy Fitzpatrick and Lincoln Russell; Meyer and Florence Frucher; Allan and Judy Fulkerson; Jennifer Gilbert and John Ellersick; Harold Grinspoon and Diane Troderman; Ann and Graham Gund; Suzanne R. Gyorgy; Carmela and Paul Haklisch; Hemera Foundation; Kurt and Charlotte Hemr; Jeffrey Horvitz; Adam and Alicia Ifshin; the Joseph and Evelyn Rosenblatt Charitable Fund; Casey Kaplan; Lizbeth and George Krupp; Christopher and Alida Latham; Raymond Learsy; Thomas Lee and Ann Tenenbaum; Nancy Maier; Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation; Michael and Agnese Meehan; Suzanne Nash; Thomas and Barbara Putnam; John and Cynthia Reed; John F. and Judith B. Remondi; Henry Ritchotte; Liz and Samuel Robinson; Jennifer Sage and Nicolas Grabar; Sakana Foundation; Mariko Silver and Thom Loubet; Scott and Lisa Stuart; The Thompson Family Foundation; Susanne Vielmetter; the William J. & Margery S. Barrett Fund of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation David Aronowitz; Fritz Backus and Matthew Shakespeare; Thomas and Laura Bacon; Robert and Barbara Bashevkin; Johannes Becker; Linda Becker; Stephen Berenson and Louise Barzilay; Berkshire Bank Foundation; Roz and Wally Bernheimer; Bessie Pappas Charitable Foundation; Roy and Toni Bliss; Blue Q; The Boston Foundation; Bruner/Cott Architects; Jim Chervenak and Clyde Bonnie; the Cooper Meadow Fund of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation; Deering Banjo Company; EASTMAN; Michael and Barbara Eisenson; Girardi Distributors; Alan Goodman; Elizabeth and Steven Gruber; Dominique Haim; David and Charlene Howe; Stephen and Lisa Jenks; Bill and Kelly Kaiser; Barbara and Leon Kalvaria; Meredith Kane; Dana Kelly; Gabe and Liz Kind; Harold Koda and Alan Kornberg; Robert I. Lipp and Martha Berman; Main Street Hospitality; Dan Mathieu and Thomas Potter; Henry McNeil; Richard and Ronay Menschel; Olivier and Laure Meslay; Leslie and Richard Morgenthal; Charles and Anne Mott; Seth and Mary Nash; Margaret Nastro; Paul Neely; Diana Nelson and John Atwater; David and Linda

Paresky; Bruno and Mary Ann Quinson; Sumit Rajpal and Deepa Desai; Clifford Ross; David and Deborah Rothschild; James Coulter Scala; David Smith and Ranny Cooper; Jid and John Sprague; Patrick Sweeney; T. Rowe Price; Peter and Laurie Thomsen; Donald Toumey and Loong Foo Chan; Jennifer Trainer; Felicia Tumaneng and Michael Levitan; University of Massachusetts, UMass Lowell; Sandra Wijnberg and Hugh Freund; Francis Williams and Keris Salmon Aonymous; Claire Angel; Ann Artschwager; Alice Aycock; John and Astrid Baumgardner; Erich Bechtel; Judith Benjamin; Scott Bergeron and Janet Sawyer-Bergeron; Stephanie Bernheim; Robert Branon; Ellen L. Chisa and Tom Rudick; Neil and Kathleen Chrisman; Barbara Close; Ellen and Casey Cogut; Michael and Licia Conforti; Allen Coulter and Kim Knowlton; Caroline Crandall and Nima Ghamsari; D'Addario Foundation; Jeffrey Davies; Nicole Deller and Matthew Bliwise; The Dobbins Foundation; Michele and Jim Dodge; Robert and Evelyn Doran; Virginia Dwan; Elizabeth Ellrodt and Scott Schweighauser; Sarah and Timothy Eustis; Brian and Vikki Fairbank; Anna Farrington; Spencer Finch; Joseph and Tracy Finnegan; Randy Fishman; Jason and Sarah Forney; Andrew and Tracy Foster; David Fox; Will Frears; Walter and May-Wo Giger; Larry and Joy Glass; The Goergen Foundation; Anne and Alain Goldrach; Annette Grant and Jonathan Baumbach; Carolyn Gray; Mandy Greenfield and Matthew Fassler; Robin Greenspun; Claude Grunitzky and Marie-Cécile Teissèdre-Grunitzky; Katherine Hand and Matt Brogan; Michael and Sandra Hecht; Betsy and Jack Hellmann; Allison and Keyes Hill-Edgar; Thomas and Janet Holland; Ian and Madeline Hooper; Amy B. Hudson; Kristen L. Johanson and Tom Green; Christopher Jones and Deborah McAlister; Lori and Richard Kent; Jonathan Klein; Leslie Kogod and Laurie Goldberger; Werner and Sarah-Ann Kramarsky; Petra Krauledat and Peter Hansen; Kenneth Krushel and Patricia Fili-Krushel; John and Deborah Larkin; Gary Leopold and Kim Colombi; Katie MacCarthy; Monica M. Mackey; May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation; Timothy Mayhew; Martha and Colin Moseley; Caitlin and Mitch Nash; Sarah Needham; Molly Nordstrom; Richard Orris and Jennifer Nathan; Mark and Katherine Pelson; Pine Cobble School; William Plapinger and Cassie Murray; Tom and Cathy Ralys; Marko and Cynthia Remec; Bridget Rigas and Neil Davis; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Richard Rothman and Melissa Salten; Stephanie and Juan Ruiz; Charlie and Amy Scharf; Charles Schulze and Lucy Holland; Gail Segal; Howard Shapiro; Mary E. Singer; Leigh and Reggie Smith; SNF USA; Diane Steinmetz; Sheree Stomberg and Peter Firestein; Richard and Janet Stratton; William and Emily Susman; Lauren and Ben Svenson; Alexandra Sweeney; Corey and Tallie Taylor; Mark and Amy Tercek; John W. Thoman Jr. and Lee T. Venolia; Liz Thompson; Jamee Todd; Jeffrey and Stacey Weber; Samuel Wertheimer; Daryl Wickstrom and Steve Cunningham; Williams College Library; Howard Williams and Thalassa Curtis; Susan and Chuck Willis; Donald and Barbara Zucker

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