WINTER INTO SPRING
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WESTERN SWING DANCE PARTY
WITH THE BRAIN CLOUD Dance Party / pg. 05
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January 11
February 8
FREE DAY BRUSHY ONE STRING
MORTIFIED
In the Galleries / Up in the Club / pg. 02
Up in the Club / pg. 06
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January 18
February 15
BETH GILL IZHAR PATKIN
BURNING SPEAR
Dance / Artist Talk / pg. 03
Concert / pg. 07
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Opens January 25
February 20
IN TRANSIT
WHEN I WALK
BETWEEN IMAGE AND OBJECT
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Exhibition / pg. 22
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January 25
February 22
THE STEPKIDS
ROGER CLARK MILLER
Up in the Club / pg. 04
A NIGHT OF SURREALIST GAMES
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Up in the Club / pg. 08
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January 30
February 27
20 FEET FROM STARDOM
THE INTERVIEW
Documentary Film Series / pg. 17
A PLAY BY GUILLAUME LEBLON Reading / pg. 09
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March 1
April 10
WATER SONGS: HA TAY G’AM
THE POLITICS OF TIBETAN ART THE LIGHT IN HER EYES
Work-in-Progress / pg. 09
Artist Talk / pg. 13 | Film Series / pg. 17
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April 12
DARREN WATERSTON
BANDA MAGDA
UNCERTAIN BEAUTY
Up in the Club / pg. 12
Exhibition / pg. 20
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April 24
LINSANITY
THE POETRY OF AGHA SHAHID ALI
Documentary Film Series / pg. 17
Poetry Reading / pg. 13
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March 22
April 26
BETTY
DAVID NEUMANN SOLO WORKS
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Dance / pg. 14
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May 1
THE DYING OF THE LIGHT FILM AS MEDIUM AND METAPHOR
GOOD PEOPLE GO TO HELL, SAVED PEOPLE GO TO HEAVEN
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Documentary Film Series / pg. 17
April 5
May 3 // May 9
MIKE GORDON
ANDREW DAWSON
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Concert / pg. 11
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SPACE PANORAMA THE RUSSIAN DOCTOR Kids’ Show / Work-in-Progress / pg. 15
In the Galleries
FREE DAY Saturday, January 11, 11am–7pm It’s your day at MASS MoCA! Free admission and brick-wall-to-brickwall programming throughout the museum welcome friends old and new. Art-making, dance performances, roaming musicians, and gallery tours are available throughout the day. Don’t miss elevator music (played live) and Lickety Split’s signature carrot cake!
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Up in the Club
BRUSHY ONE STRING Saturday, January 11, 8pm
Club B-10 / $20 reserved; $12 advance; $16 day of; $10 students Sponsored by the Hans & Kate Morris Fund for New Music 02
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Performing on a classical guitar with nothing but a D string, Brushy One String manages to pack the energy and soul of an eight-piece Jamaican dance-hall band into just one string and one huge voice. Free Day turns into a fun night up in the club.
Work-in-Progress
BETH GILL photo by Steven Schreiber
Saturday, January 18, 8pm Bessie Award-winning choreographer Beth Gill is in North Adams to develop her latest dance, New Work for the Desert. With an all-star cast of dancers and designers in tow, Gill is “building a space in which light is alive and space is vast.� Hunter Center / $15; $10 students Presented by MASS MoCA in association with Vermont Performance Lab
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Artist Talk
IZHAR PATKIN photo by Natan Dvir for The New York Times
WITH DAVID ROSS Saturday, January 18, 2pm
Israeli-born, New York-based artist Izhar Patkin discusses his exhibition with writer and curator David Ross. Other topics may include IsraeliPalestinian politics and the role of narrative, symbolism, and representation in art today. A reception follows to celebrate Patkin and The Wandering Veil. Club B-10 / FREE for members; $7 not-yet-members massmoca.org
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Hip-shaking Brainiacs
THE STEPKIDS Saturday, January 25, 8pm The Stepkids are keen on transporting you to some conflation of the 1970s and the 2070s. Pitchfork calls the band’s guitar gymnastics, synchronized dance moves, vintage songwriting, and Zappa-esque freak-outs “a music nerd’s romp through high-fidelity magic.” The three-man crew combines jazz, rock, and soul in an unforgettable show of psychedelic, energy-wired music. Far out!
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Club B-10 / $20 reserved; $12 advance; $16 day of; $10 students Sponsored by the Hans & Kate Morris Fund for New Music. Additional support by
Dance Party
Bring the Swing
WESTERN SWING DANCE PARTY WITH THE BRAIN CLOUD
photo by Kevin Kennefick
Saturday, February 1, 8pm The Hunter Center becomes a boot-stomping ranch dance when New York sextet The Brain Cloud brings its brand of gypsy jazz dipped in big band swing. These fiddlers’ fingers are too hot for the speakeasy! Hunter Center / $15; $10 students
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She left me at the prom
MORTIFIED Saturday, February 8, 8pm Hailed as a “cultural phenomenon� by Newsweek and celebrated by This American Life, Mortified is a comic excavation of teen angst artifacts. Journals, letters, poems, lyrics, home movies, stories, and more are shared by their original authors before total strangers. This is a poignant, hilarious look at high school tribulations: personal redemption through public humiliation.
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Club B-10 / $20 reserved; $12 advance; $16 day of; $10 students
Concert
Roots Reggae Revolutionary
BURNING SPEAR Saturday, February 15, 8pm
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With twenty-five albums over forty-five years, Burning Spear has become one of Jamaica’s most enduring treasures. His devotion to the teachings of Marcus Garvey manifests in embracing Pan-African lyrics, while his intoxicating rhythms transform any room into a party. Immerse yourself in the Rastafarian spirit, with plenty of room to dance. Hunter Center / $22 advance; $27 day of; $18 students Sponsored by the Hans & Kate Morris Fund for New Music
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Hands on, minds bent
ROGER CLARK MILLER Saturday, February 22, 8pm In smoke-filled rooms along rue Pierre Fontaine in the 1920s, Andre Breton and his co-conspirators developed a corpus of mind-bending games to supplement their new philosophy of surrealism. Consummate emcee Roger Clark Miller (Mission of Burma, Alloy Orchestra) brings these riotous games to MASS MoCA. Come prepared to play. Club B-10 / $20 reserved; $12 advance; $16 day of; $10 students
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cover image for L’Immaculée Conception by André Breton and Paul Eluard, 1930
A NIGHT OF SURREALIST GAMES
photo by Jean-Christophe Mazur / © Centre Pompidou Bibliothèque Kandinsky
Reading
THE INTERVIEW A PLAY BY GUILLAUME LEBLON Thursday, February 27, 6pm Written with curator and critic Thomas Boutoux, The Interview is a short play centering around the artist’s desire to produce a non-traditional text on his work. The absurdist play ultimately becomes that text, offering insight into Leblon’s own practice. Meet the artist following the reading. Club B-10 / FREE for members; $7 not-yet-members
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Work-in-Progress
WATER SONGS: HA TAY G’AM photo courtesy the artists
Saturday, March 1, 8pm Water Songs: Ha Ŧay G’am is a new live music and video project exploring the profound history of the Colorado River. Featuring compositions by John Luther Adams, William Brittelle, Shara Worden, Sarah Kirkland Snider, and Paola Prestini, the delightful collaboration will be performed by MASS MoCA favorite, Roomful of Teeth. Hunter Center / $15; $10 students Co-produced by New Amsterdam Records and VisionIntoArt massmoca.org
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Filthy Lucre Composers
BETTY Saturday, March 22, 8pm As these legendary all-girl pop-rockers approach thirty years of musicmaking, they are as current as ever. Irreverent, tongue-in-cheek, and always super-fun, they come to MASS MoCA to perform in conjunction with Darren Waterston’s installation Uncertain Beauty [page 20], which features a voice and cello soundscape composed by the band. Sponsored by the Hans & Kate Morris Fund for New Music
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Club B-10 / $20 reserved; $12 advance; $16 day of; $10 students
Concert
Calling all phans!
MIKE GORDON Saturday, April 5, 8pm
photo by Brantley Gutierrez
The Dude of Life, rubber chickens, 4:20am backwoods Vermont jam sessions— Phish isn’t just a band; it’s a culture rich with quirks and legends. In downtime between tours, the band’s charismatic bassist, Mike Gordon, has dived into countless collaborations and become a formidable bandleader in his own right. His latest full-band project turns the Hunter Center into jam central. Hunter Center / $22 advance; $26 day of; $22 students Sponsored by the Hans & Kate Morris Fund for New Music
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A certain je ne sais quoi
BANDA MAGDA Saturday, April 12, 8pm Leading an eclectic and international banda, Athens-born accordionist and musical polymath Magda Giannikou fuses bossa nova, jazz, and cross-cultural charm into her high-energy performance. She’s a Greek chanteuse fresh off the release of her debut album, and she comes to town playing vintage French pop on a squeezebox‌ only at MASS MoCA! Sponsored by the Hans & Kate Morris Fund for New Music
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Artist Talk
Ang Tsherin Sherpa, Shambhala (detail), 2013.
THE POLITICS OF TIBETAN ART Thursday, April 10, 5pm Join Nepali-born artist Ang Tsherin Sherpa for a discussion with Williams College anthropology and religion professors about the Tibetan-Chinese conflict as represented in Tibetan Buddhist culture, art, and imagery. A reception follows in Kidspace, where Sherpa’s thangka paintings are on view. Club B-10 / FREE for members; $7 not-yet-members
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Poetry Reading
THE POETRY OF AGHA SHAHID ALI photo by LaVerne Harrell Clark
Thursday, April 24, 6pm Izhar Patkin collaborated with the late Kashmiri-American poet, Agha Shahid Ali (1949–2001) on his series of “veil” paintings, transforming Ali’s musings on love and loss into visual form. Join us for an intimate reading of ghazal poems popularized by Ali. The reading is co-organized by Agha Iqbal Ali, the poet’s brother and University of Massachusetts professor, and Nikhil Melnechuk of Bowery Arts+Science. Club B-10 / FREE for members; $7 not-yet-members massmoca.org
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Dance
CO-PRESENTATION WITH
DAVID NEUMANN SOLO WORKS Saturday, April 26, 8pm Interdisciplinary choreographer David Neumann will present an intimate evening of solos that span his two-decade career. Effervescent, delightfully odd, and frequently funny, the oeuvre is anchored by his obsession with the line between theater and dance, action and voice, audience and performer.
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Hunter Center / Priority $20; $15; $10 students Supported in part by the Irene Hunter Fund for Dance at MASS MoCA
Kids’ Show
ANDREW DAWSON SPACE PANORAMA photo by Nitin Vadukul
Saturday, May 3, 11:30 am Amid his residency developing The Russian Doctor, director and choreographer Andrew Dawson presents an otherworldly family affair. Space Panorama is a hypnotic solo recreation of the Apollo 11 moon landing—using only Dawson’s hands! Accompanied by dramatic narration and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10. Club B-10 / $5
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Work-in-Progress
ANDREW DAWSON THE RUSSIAN DOCTOR. ANTON CHEKHOV’S JOURNEY TO SAKHALIN ISLAND
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Friday, May 9, 8pm Having traveled to space, Dawson now lands in Siberia, teaming up with a neuroscientist and a medical historian to explore an oft-forgotten element of Anton Chekhov’s legacy: an extraordinary journey across the frozen tundra to the island of Sakhalin and his ensuing contribution to the field of epidemiology. Hunter Center / $15; $10 students massmoca.org
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Documentary Film Series
GOD IS WHERE? “God is love.” “God is dead.” Artists, philosophers, and everyday people have forever grappled with their faith and devotion to the mysteries of life. In this season’s documentary series, we trace the urgency of the unifying question: God is Where? From the Apollo Theater to the streets of Damascus to the NBA playoffs, the stories that shape our lives are filled with people wondering, hoping, and believing. Club B-10 / $9; $5 students
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Documentary Film Series
20 FEET FROM STARDOM Thursday, January 30, 7:30pm An enchanting glimpse into the lives and careers of the anonymous back-up singers who put their stamp on many of the great recordings and performances of the rock ‘n’ roll era. Followed by a Q+A with co-producer Warren Zanes of the Del Fuegos.
WHEN I WALK Thursday, February 20, 7:30pm Seven years after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Jason DaSilva brings us a harrowing but optimistic portrait of his physical decline. In the end, he reminds us of the importance of silliness and the breathtaking beauty in fleeting moments. Followed by a Q+A with filmmaker Jason DaSilva.
LINSANITY Thursday, March 13, 7:30pm The New York Knicks were halfway through another unremarkable season when recent Harvard grad and devout Christian Jeremy Lin was pulled off the bench. The record-breaking events that ensued sent the whole city into an unforgettable spiral of Linsanity. Followed by a Q+A with filmmaker Brian Yang.
THE LIGHT IN HER EYES Thursday, April 10, 7:30pm At her Qur’an school for girls in Damascus, the conservative Muslim preacher, Houda al-Habash, immerses her students in rigorous study, challenging them to live according to Islam without giving up their dreams. Followed by a Q+A with filmmaker Julia Meltzer.
GOOD PEOPLE GO TO HELL, SAVED PEOPLE GO TO HEAVEN Thursday, May 1, 7:30pm Evangelical Christianity has had considerable growing pains over the last century. Examine these communities against the backdrop of Hurricane Katrina, the vision that brings them together, and the dogmatic political battles that tear them apart. Followed by a Q+A with Williamstown filmmaker Holly Hardman. massmoca.org
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Adults & Families
DATE NIGHT Friday, February 14, 6 – 9pm $115 per couple, members; $130 per couple, notyet-members / $36 per child, members; $40 per child, not-yet-members
Have dinner for two by candlelight on this night at the museum meant for sweethearts. Stroll through the galleries, participate in activities, and craft handmade gifts for your partner. Drop off the kids at Kidspace for a special Valentine dinner and art activities.
CAMP UTOPIA February 17–21, 9am – 3pm $125 members; $150 not-yet-members Before and after child care available for an additional $15 per day.
Inspired by Jason Middlebrook’s drawing A Fresh Start, a futuristic community springs to life in this one-week art camp, as kids ages 6–12 build life-size forts and structures. Middlebrook and his daughters will join campers on the last day to add some final touches to the project. Campers will participate in daily yoga, meditation, and lots of art-making.
SPRING BREAK ART DETOX April 21, 23 & 25, 9am–11am $7 per day, members $10 per day, not-yet-members
Three days of body, mind, and spirit focus will get kids ready for spring. Art-making, action, and healthy snacks are the remedy to recharge creativity. Parents can drop off the kids or join in the action.
SUMMER ART CAMPS July 28–August 1 / August 4–8 August 18–22 / August 25–29 Register now! 413.664.4481 x8131
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Kidspace
FREEDOM
JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR... Ang Tsherin Sherpa, Shambhala (detail), 2013.
Through May 26 A visual exploration of how words and art can have multiple meanings. Featuring Xu Bing, Gonkar Gyatso, Ran Hwang, Ang Tsherin Sherpa, Long-Bin Chen, and Roger Shimomura with works gathered under the theme of freedom. Create your own “words of art” at our famous Kidspace ArtBar. Education at MASS MoCA is made possible by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Additional support is provided by the Anne R. Avis and Gregory M. Avis Fund; the Massachusetts Cultural Council; an anonymous donor; the Brownrigg Charitable Trust, Milton and Dorothy Sarnoff Raymond Foundation, and Alice Shaver Foundation, all in memory of Lynn Laitman; John Hancock; Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation; Holly Swett; the Berkshire Bank Foundation—Legacy Region; and Price Chopper’s Golub Foundation.
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Exhibition
DARREN WATERSTON Opens Saturday, March 8 Darren Waterston’s installation Filthy Lucre reimagines James McNeill Whistler’s decorative masterpiece Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room (1876–1877), which is on permanent exhibition at the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art. Drawing parallels between the excesses of the Gilded Age and the economic conditions of today, Waterston presents the room as a sumptuous ruin (with an atmospheric soundscape by the band BETTY), crumbling from the weight of its own decadence, as well as its scandal-ridden history. Uncertain Beauty also features a selection of Waterston’s luminous paintings on wood panel and canvas. This exhibition is supported by Leslie Mason & Thad Meyerriecks, ABC Carpet & Home, Bridget Moore, Ann Hatch, Robin Reed & Lorye George, Federico de Vera, Greg Kucera & Larry Yocom, Cheryl Haines, Kerry Inman & Denby Auble, Kathleen O’Grady, Dave Koz, Kaye Cummings, and Valerie Justin. Additional funding is provided by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation and Bonnie Schaefer.
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Darren Waterston, Filthy Lucre, 2013 (detail); courtesy the artist and DC Moore Gallery, New York.
UNCERTAIN BEAUTY
Tacita Dean, The Green Ray, 2001 (detail); courtesy the artist, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York / Paris and Frith Street Gallery, London.
Exhibition
THE DYING OF THE LIGHT FILM AS MEDIUM AND METAPHOR Opens Saturday, March 29 Photochemical film is quickly drifting into obsolescence as the motion picture industry transitions to digital media and fewer and fewer manufacturers and labs produce and print film. Yet many visual artists who create work for gallery and museum settings remain among the devoted users of 16 mm and 35 mm film formats. This exhibition features work by six artists who emphasize film’s unrivaled texture and luminosity, as well as its potential for metaphor. This exhibition is supported by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
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In the Galleries
IN TRANSIT
BETWEEN IMAGE AND OBJECT Opens Saturday, January 25 Artists Dike Blair, Hugh Scott-Douglas, and collaborative duo Guyton\Walker paint, print, and project abstract images and patterns onto the surface of shipping crates. Incorporating storage and transportation containers into vivid multimedia installations, these artists explore parallels between the physical movement of artworks and the seemingly limitless circulation of visual information across media and networks in the digital age.
THE WANDERING VEIL
Through August 2014 The long-awaited survey of works by the Israeli-born, New York-based artist takes over the museum’s largest gallery. Grand, labyrinthine— yet also surprisingly intimate—the exhibition is rich with personal narrative, political metaphor, and myth, highlighting the many formal innovations that Patkin has pioneered over his 30-year career. 22
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from top to bottom: Dike Blair, Dance Dance Dance, 2011; photo courtesy the artist. Izhar Patkin, Veil Suite, 2007 (detail); photo courtesy the artist.
IZHAR PATKIN
from top to bottom: Anselm Kiefer, Velimir Chlebnikov, 2004; photo by Art Evans. Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing 610: Isometric figures with color ink washes superimposed, 1989; courtesy the Estate of Sol LeWitt: photo by Zoran Orlic.
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ANSELM KIEFER HALL ART FOUNDATION
Open seasonally beginning April 12 Conceived for a 10,000 square-foot factory building specifically repurposed for this exhibition, the Hall Art Foundation presents a long-term installation of sculpture and paintings by Anselm Kiefer.
SOL LEWITT A WALL DRAWING RETROSPECTIVE 105 large-scale wall drawings occupy a lightfilled mill building at the center of campus. In Transit: Between Image and Object 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. Anselm Kiefer is a long-term installation realized in collaboration with the Hall Art Foundation. Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective is a collaboration of MASS MoCA, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Williams College Museum of Art. Izhar Patkin: The Wandering Veil is supported by Lynn Holstein and Artis with additional funding provided by Rivka Saker, the Consulate General of Israel to New England, the Agha Shahid Ali Literary Trust, the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
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THE OCTAGON ROOM Through February 1, 2015
LIFE’S WORK
TOM PHILLIPS & JOHNNY CARRERA Through January 19, 2014
THE ONE MINUTE FILM FESTIVAL 2003–2012
Through January 19, 2014
Life’s Work: Tom Phillips & Johnny Carrera is supported by a grant from the Artist’s Resource Trust with additional funding provided by the Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry. The One Minute Film Festival: 2003–2012 is also supported by a grant from the Artist’s Resource Trust. Exhibition season support is provided by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
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clockwise from top left: Mark Dion, The Octagon Room, 2008, installation view; courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York. One Minute Film Festival: 2003–2012, 2013. Life’s Work, 2013. All photos by Art Evans.
MARK DION
clockwise from top left: Jason Middlebrook, You Can Take the City Out of the City, but You Can’t Take the City Out of the City, 2013 (detail); courtesy the artist and DODGEgallery, New York; photo by Karen Pearson. Guillaume Leblon, Under My Shoe, 2013; photo by Art Evans. Michael Oatman, all utopias fell, 2010; photo by Zoran Orlic. Joseph Montgomery, Image Ninety Six, 2007–10; private collection; photo by Elisabeth Bernstein.
In the Galleries
JASON MIDDLEBROOK
GUILLAUME LEBLON
MY LANDSCAPE
UNDER MY SHOE
Through April 6, 2014
Through April 6, 2014
JOSEPH MONTGOMERY
FIVE SETS FIVE REPS
THE SPEED WAY
Through April 6, 2014
Seasonal beginning April 12 Jason Middlebrook: My Landscape is supported by a grant from the Artist’s Resource Trust with additional funding provided by Hal & Jodi Hess, Robert & Nancy Magoon, and Kent & Vicki Logan. Guillaume Leblon: Under My Shoe is supported by Étant donnés: The French-American Fund for Contemporary Art, with additional funding provided by Air France and Elisabeth & Robert Wilmers. Exhibition season support is provided by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
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Major Season Support
Anonymous ABC Carpet & Home Irwin and Mary Ackerman Adams Plumbing & Heating, Inc. George Ahl Air France Herbert Allen American Express Foundation Art Confidant Artis Artist’s Resource Trust Glenn and Debbie August Anne and Gregory Avis Paul Bain Bank of America Daniel and Samantha Becker Alan and Leslie Beller Joan Benjamin and Laurence Cherkis Berkshire Bank Berkshire Gas Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc. Ellen J. Bernstein Joyce Bernstein and Lawrence Rosenthal Brad and Terrie Bloom Blue Q Duncan and Susan Brown Brownrigg Charitable Trust Melva Bucksbaum and Raymond Learsy Jonathan and Ronda Canter E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation Cara Castiglione G. Donald and Michele Chandler Citi Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute Stacy and Eric Cochran Nicole Condon and Liang Shih Llaen Coston-Clark and Andrew Pitre Council for Canadian American Relations Creative Portland Corporation
Bobbie Crosby Kirsten DeHaan John DeRosa Federico deVera Foster and Penelope Devereux Peter Dey and Phyllis Ortved Jane Coats Eckert Michael and Lise Evans Richard and Anne Falivena Bridget and Donald Fawcett Monica Ferrell Fidelity Foundation Nancy Fitzpatrick and Lincoln Russell Henry and Mary Flynt David and Mimi Forer French-American Fund for Contemporary Art Allan and Judy Fulkerson Fund for the City of New York Dino and Anita Fusco Timur Galen and Linda Genereux John Gardiner Girardi Distributors Robert Gold Susan Gold Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Francis Greenburger and Isabelle Autones Donald Gummer and Meryl Streep Agnes Gund Graham and Ann Gund Andrew and Barbara Gundlach Cheryl Haines, Haines Gallery Andrew and Christine Hall O. Andreas and Diane Halvorsen John Hancock Scott and Ellen Hand Stephen Hannock Robert and Helen Hardman Family Fund Ann Hatch and Paul Discoe Kurt and Charlotte Hemr
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Hal and Jodi Hess Hewlett Packard Highland Street Foundation Holiday Inn Lynn Holstein Orion and Lisa Howard James and Joan Hunter Kerry Inman and Denby Auble Institute of Museum and Library Services John and Maureen Jerome Roberta and Michael Joseph Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation Christopher and Erin Keogh James Kiggen and Ani Shaker Werner and Sarah-Ann Kramarsky George and Lizbeth Krupp Greg Kucera and Larry Yocom Samuel Laitman Elizabeth and James Lee Thomas Lee and Ann Tenenbaum Robert Lehman Foundation Carol LeWitt Dorothy Lichtenstein Joyce Linde Robert Lipp and Martha Berman Kent and Vicki Logan Daniel Lucey Robert and Nancy Magoon Thomas and Leslie Maheras John and Paula Mahoney Manitou Media Christopher and Claire Mann Leslie Mason and Thad Meyerriecks Massachusetts Cultural Council Timothy and Elizabeth Mayhew Adam McGowan and Jennifer Adams Bridget Moore, DC Moore Gallery Hans and Kate Morris
Mountain One Financial Partners Thomas and Fern Murtagh Mari Nakachi and Daniel Simkowitz Andrew Newman and Ariel Peters Kathleen O’Grady The Orchards Charles Pardoe and MariÍt Westermann The Porches Inn at MASS MoCA Ruth E. Proud Charitable Trust Milton and Dorothy Sarnoff Raymond Foundation Robin Reed and Lorye George Rhode Island Foundation Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Elizabeth and Samuel Robinson Sarah Samis Kim Samuel-Johnson Eileen Schaefer Anders and Yukiko Schroeder Alice Shaver Foundation W.L.S. Spencer Foundation Robert and Carol Stegeman Else Steiner Irving Stenn Holly Swett Jamie Tarses Jay and Rachel Tarses TD Bank The Thompson Family Foundation Charlie and Kimberly Thurston Sarah Twombly and Yeang Chng Village Ventures Jack & Susy Wadsworth Alice Walton Williams College Elisabeth and Robert Wilmers C. Angus and Margaret Wurtel Xu Bing Studio Michael and Nina Zilkha
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Visitor Info
Box Office & Information 413.662.2111 / massmoca.org Gallery & Kidspace Hours 11am–5pm through June 30, 2014 Closed Tuesdays Kidspace ArtBar is open on weekends and holidays. Watch for special extended hours on the evenings of some performing arts events. Gallery & Kidspace Admission Adults & seniors: $15 Children 0–5: free Members: free Children 6–16: $5 Students with ID: $10 Kidspace: free MCLA & Williams College students are members and receive free admission. Public Tours (free with admission) Monday–Friday: highlights (2pm) Saturday & Sunday: Sol LeWitt (noon); highlights (2pm) Holidays & school vacations: Sol LeWitt (noon); highlights (2pm) Tickets Tickets are required for all performing arts events. Don’t be disappointed —reserve in advance to guarantee admission, especially for free events. There are no refunds or exchanges. All performances and artists are subject to change. All events are rain or shine. Accessibility MASS MoCA is handicapped-accessible. Wheelchairs are available. Infrared listening devices are available at no charge from the Box Office before all events.
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