MASS MoCA Winter/Spring 2018 Brochure

WINTER /SPRING 2018 ON STAGE & IN THE GALLERIES

Dear friends, One might think that we would tuck in this winter, after a gangbuster summer and fall. But that’s one of the many great things about new art... it just keeps coming. As you’ll discover, this season will be every bit as vital — replete with romance, magic, sex, death, and strange vibrations of the night (in the exhibitions The Lure of the Dark, Allison Janae Hamilton’s Pitch, and Natasha Bowdoin’s Maneater, as well as installations by Etel Adnan and Rachel Howard). Our music roster, always fresh, is one knockout after another this season (including, among others, Sinkane, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Sylvan Esso, POLIÇA, and Rafiq Bhatia of Son Lux).

Tune in to our artist residency series, where you get to enjoy the “avant premier” look at important works of art and performance — before they hit major urban venues. This spring we’ll hear Bon Iver live scoring contemporary dance and Quindar (featuring Mikael Jorgensen of Wilco) grooving to NASA films, and we’ll witness Alicia Hall Moran’s quixotic alt-opera about ice-skating and featuring live jazz. Ice-skating?

After the ice melts, and right when the season is getting most dire, we serve up a weekend of laughs with our annual High Mud Comedy Festival. Before that you can join our passionate audience, which gathers on many chilly Thursday nights to see great documentary films, frequently in the company of the film’s director. This winter’s documentary film series theme is True Convictions, centering on characters who go the distance.

The winter months are a fine time to come back to the galleries to explore our longer-term exhibitions at your leisure. Take your time. Slow down. Take part.

Becoming a member makes that easy, and your support helps all that great art keep coming. We hope you do too.

See you soon,

Joseph Thompson, Director P.S. Winter is always a good time to check out what’s on view in Kidspace — come for Wes Sam-Bruce’s interactive art; stay for art-making at the ArtBar.

IN THE GALLERIES

LIVE LOCAL MUSIC

FREE DAY

CJ FIELD

Sat. January 20, 11am–7pm

Sat. March 3, 8pm

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LIVE MUSIC + FILM

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ARTIST TALK

QUINDAR

LIZ GLYNN

Sat. January 20, 8pm

Thurs. March 8, 6pm at Williams College

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FILM SCREENING + TALK

ART 21: PROTEST Fri. January 26, 4pm p.20

LIVE MUSIC

GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR Sat. March 10, 8pm p.8

WORK-IN-PROGRESS: ALT-OPERA

COMEDY FESTIVAL

ALICIA HALL MORAN

HIGH MUD COMEDY FEST

Sat. January 27, 8pm

March 16 &17

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LIVE MUSIC

RAFIQ BHATIA Sat. February 10, 8pm p.6

WORK-IN-PROGRESS: LIVE MUSIC

POLIÇA / STARGAZE Thurs. February 15, 8pm p.7

LIVE MUSIC

SINKANE Sat. February 24, 8pm p.7

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OPENING RECEPTION

NATASHA BOWDOIN p.18 RACHEL HOWARD p.18 THE LURE OF THE DARK p.16 PLEDGES OF ALLEGIANCE p.19 ALLISON JANAE HAMILTON p.17 Sat. March 24, 5:30pm WORK-IN-PROGRESS: LIVE MUSIC + DANCE

BON IVER & TU DANCE March 24 &25 p.10

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DOCUMENTARY FILM SERIES

ASK THE SEXPERT Thurs. March 29, 7pm

LIVE MUSIC

TRIO DA KALI Sat. April 14, 8pm p.12

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LIVE MUSIC

SYLVAN ESSO Sat. March 31, 8pm p.11

DOCUMENTARY FILM SERIES

TRUE CONVICTION Thurs. April 19, 7pm p.14

DOCUMENTARY FILM SERIES

THEATER

GULÎSTAN, LAND OF ROSES

RADHA BLANK

Thurs. April 5, 7pm

Sat. April 21, 8pm

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EXHIBITION

ETEL ADNAN

A YELLOW SUN A GREEN SUN A YELLOW SUN A RED SUN A BLUE SUN Sat. April 7 p.19

DANCE

OKWUI OKPOKWASILI

POOR PEOPLE’S TV ROOM Sat. April 7, 8pm p.11

DOCUMENTARY FILM SERIES

HAPPYFLOWERNAIL p.12

WORK-IN-PROGRESS: DANCE

EPHRAT ASHERIE ODEON

Sat. April 28, 8pm p.13

LIVE MUSIC

ZEMOG EL GALLO BUENO Sat. May 5, 8pm p.13

EXHIBITION

BABYLON DREAMERS

TEEN INVITATIONAL

Thurs. April 12, 7pm

Fri. May 11, 7pm

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IN THE GALLERIES

FILM + CONVERSATION

INTERNATIONAL SLOW ART DAY

MUDBOUND

Sat. April 14, 11am–2pm

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Sat. May 12, 8pm

IN THE GALLERIES

Saturday, January 20, 11am–7pm

FREE DAY

Bring the family.

And all your friends!

Enjoy live music, make your own art, watch a pop-up performance, and hop on a gallery tour. A full schedule of activities (free for everyone who walks through the doors!) is available at massmoca.org.

Sponsored by MountainOne, Berkshire Gas, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services

Photo by Jason Reinhold

LIVE MUSIC + FILM

Saturday, January 20, 8pm

QUINDAR Ground control to Major Tom Take a trip to outer space with Quindar — Wilco’s Mikael Jorgensen and his art and music collaborator James Merle Thomas. The multimedia duo sync electronic music with historical recordings and film, especially from NASA’s early manned missions. The results are mesmerizingly beautiful, and they packed the house at last summer’s Solid Sound.

HUNTER CENTER | $5 STUDENTS + MEMBERS $14 ADVANCE | $20 DAY OF | $30 PREFERRED

Photo by Shawn Brackbill

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WORK-IN-PROGRESS: ALT-OPERA

Saturday, January 27, 8pm

ALICIA HALL MORAN Opera, axels, and jazz In the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics, two figure skaters representing America and East Germany battled for Olympic gold, both accompanied by music from Carmen.

Mezzo-soprano Alicia Hall Moran, herself a former figure skater, tells Georges Bizet’s epic story in an all-out musical fantasy for the concert stage, joined by fearless NYC jazz trio Harriet Tubman.

HUNTER CENTER | $5 STUDENTS + MEMBERS $14 ADVANCE | $20 DAY OF | $30 PREFERRED This program is supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Photo by Renaldo Davidson

LIVE MUSIC

Saturday, February 10, 8pm

RAFIQ BHATIA Son Lux ballast Rafiq Bhatia is a guitarist and composer who balances meticulous sound art with searing improvisation, “transcending real sound in real time with the unexpected” (The New York Times). As a member of Son Lux he anchors the ensemble’s minimal arrangements — and here he appears in a new trio.

Our friend and neighbor George Langford of the brilliant knob-twisting duo Javelin opens the evening.

CLUB B10 | $10 STUDENTS | $14 ADVANCE $20 DAY OF | $26 PREFERRED Sponsored by the Hans and Kate Morris Fund for New Music

Photo by Zenith Richards

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WORK-IN-PROGRESS: LIVE MUSIC

Thursday, February 15, 8pm

POLIÇA / STARGAZE

Pop music disassembled s t a r g a z e, Berlin’s collective of new music mavericks, joins forces with the brooding pop of POLIÇA to create a new evening-length work Music for the Long Emergency, commissioned by and premiered with The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra’s Liquid Music Series. Pitchfork describes POLIÇA as “digitized Norah Jones atop Radiohead at its most polyrhythmic.”

Fold in one of Europe’s hottest ensembles for a sense of this boundary-breaking collaboration.

A new work for the ensemble by Daniel Wohl will open the show. In partnership with curatorial collective Infinite Palette.

HUNTER CENTER | $10 STUDENTS $18 ADVANCE | $25 DAY OF | $35 PREFERRED Photo by Graham Tolbert

LIVE MUSIC

Saturday, February 24, 8pm

SINKANE Full force fun Ahmed Gallab makes music that is joyful and generous, with a razor-sharp message about community and social justice. He led the 15-piece Atomic Bomb Band with collaborators that included David Byrne, Damon Albarn, and Jamie Lidell. Now he visits MASS MoCA with his 6-piece project, Sinkane, horns blazing.

CLUB B10 | $10 STUDENTS | $14 ADVANCE $20 DAY OF | $26 PREFERRED Sponsored by the Hans and Kate Morris Fund for New Music

Photo by Adam Tetzloff

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LIVE LOCAL MUSIC

Saturday, March 3, 8pm

CJ FIELD Rural soul North Adams native CJ Field wasn’t born with a guitar in his hand — but he could have been. Field carved out a place for himself on the Nashville scene as a frontman of the edgy rock-and-roots collaborative Delta Riot and as a charttopping songwriter. He’s back in his hometown for a show of spirited, gritty guitar that’s sure to please all you fans of Sam Cooke, Levon Helm, or Ryan Adams.

CLUB B10 | $5 STUDENTS | $10 ADVANCE $16 DAY OF | $22 PREFERRED

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LIVE MUSIC

Saturday, March 10, 8pm

GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR Ecstatic collective Montreal’s Godspeed You! Black Emperor is an earth-rattling, wall-of-sound experience. Known for 2000’s postrock classic, Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven, the band’s new material offers a transcendent, melodic maturity even as it rumbles through an apocalyptic contemporary landscape.

HUNTER CENTER | $26 STUDENTS $26 ADVANCE | $33 DAY OF | $45 PREFERRED

Photo by Yannick Grandmont

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Our annual early-spring yuk-fest will be stacked with comedyclub kings and queens, funny film, uncommon workshops, halfbrewed beer tastings, and mocking museum tours (and anything else we can think of to poke fun at). This is mud season in the Berkshires: we celebrate! massmoca.org/highmud 413.662.2111 x1

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WORK-IN-PROGRESS: LIVE MUSIC + DANCE

BON IVER & TU DANCE

Repeat Grammy Award-winner and endlessly influential balladeer Justin Vernon, aka Bon Iver, visits MASS MoCA to perform a work-in-progress score alongside dance company TU Dance. The company’s co-founder and “incredible polyrhythmic genius” (Star Tribune) Uri Sands guides his troupe through movement that lilts and tumbles alongside Vernon’s expansive sound. The new work will officially premiere with Liquid Music on April 19 in Saint Paul, MN.

Saturday, March 24, 8pm MASS MoCA galleries open until 7pm

Photo by Andrew Blackstein

Sunday, March 25, 2pm HUNTER CENTER | $25 ADVANCE | $35 DAY OF | $45 PREFERRED This program is supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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LIVE MUSIC

Saturday, March 31, 8pm MASS MoCA galleries open until 7pm

SYLVAN ESSO “Endlessly ecstatic” —NPR Singer Amelia Meath of the legendary Bennington band, Mountain Man, and producer Nick Sanborn of psychedelic folksters Megafaun create effortless, wonderful electronic pop music that twists, turns, and constantly reinvents itself. Their 2014 self-titled debut thrust them into the national spotlight with ten songs that suggested sheer alchemy — both unlikely and undeniable.

Recognized as “endlessly ecstatic” by NPR, and for its “urbane playfulness” by Pitchfork, come hear your new favorite band in its first MASS MoCA appearance.

HUNTER CENTER | SOLD Photo courtesy of the artist

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DANCE

Saturday, April 7, 8pm

OKWUI OKPOKWASILI

POOR PEOPLE’S TV ROOM Co-presented with Jacob’s Pillow Dance

The power of collective embodiment New York’s beloved choreographer Okwui Okpokwasili pulls you through an ancestral fever dream shared among four women mysteriously linked through time and fractured memories.

HUNTER CENTER | $20 STUDENTS $30 ADVANCE | $40 DAY OF | $50 PREFERRED The presentation of Poor People’s TV Room by Okwui Okpokwasili was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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

Photo by Paul B. Goode

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INTERNATIONAL SLOW ART DAY Saturday, April 14, 11am–2pm

Gather insight in the galleries as we take our time for the day. massmoca.org/goslow

LIVE MUSIC

Saturday, April 14, 8pm

TRIO DA KALI Modern griots The three members of Trio da Kali come from a long line of distinguished southern Malian griots. With only voice and traditional West African instruments, the balafon and bass ngoni, they bring us the intimate, personal, and unforgettable songs from their Mande culture. Their new record is a collaboration with the Kronos Quartet and a beautiful exemplar of cultural cross-pollination.

Williams College alum and African drumming sensation Jason Lucas opens.

CLUB B10 | $10 STUDENTS | $14 ADVANCE $20 DAY OF | $26 PREFERRED Photo by Youri Lenquette

Sponsored by the Hans and Kate Morris Fund for New Music

THEATER

Saturday, April 21, 8pm

RADHA BLANK HAPPYFLOWERNAIL

Business is bad for Miss Sung.

A rival nail salon has just opened up down the street and her best manicurist has gone missing. Writer Radha Blank commands the stage in a solo show that explores the lives of five distinct women who dare to reach for the American Dream outside of the doors of the Koreanowned Bed-Stuy nail salon they call home.

CLUB B10 | $10 STUDENTS | $16 ADVANCE $22 DAY OF | $30 PREFERRED

Photo by Stefano Giovannini

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WORK-IN-PROGRESS: DANCE

Saturday, April 28, 8pm

EPHRAT ASHERIE ODEON

Co-presented with Jacob’s Pillow Dance

The club brought to the stage Bessie Award-winning choreographer Ephrat Esherie offers a sneak peek at her work-in-progress Odeon, a dazzling exploration of breaking, hip-hop, house, and vogue. Her brother, Ehud, an acclaimed pianist, will perform a score by Brazilian composer Ernesto Nazareth, a blend of early 20th-century classical music with samba and popular Afro-Brazilian rhythms.

CLUB B10 | $5 STUDENTS + MEMBERS $14 ADVANCE | $20 DAY OF | $30 PREFERRED This program is supported in part by the Irene Hunter Fund for Dance at MASS MoCA in association with Jacob’s Pillow Dance.

Photo by Carolina Restrepo

LIVE MUSIC

Saturday, May 5, 8pm

ZEMOG EL GALLO BUENO Dance it off, up in the club A group of eleven New York City musicians and friends, Zemog El Gallo Bueno, adventures through 1930’s Puerto Rican street cries and laments, fumes of ’60s free jazz, and ’70s New York salsa in an unstoppable dance party.

CLUB B10 | $10 STUDENTS | $14 ADVANCE $20 DAY OF | $26 PREFERRED Sponsored by the Hans and Kate Morris Fund for New Music

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DOCUMENTARY FILM SERIES

TRUE CONVICTIONS A series of documentary films about true convictions — and those who seek them. Stay for a Q&A with filmmakers after the show.

ASK THE SEXPERT

Thursday, March 29, 7pm

GULÎSTAN, LAND OF ROSES Thursday, April 5, 7pm

BABYLON DREAMERS Thursday, April 12, 7pm

TRUE CONVICTION

Thursday, April 19, 7pm CLUB B10 | $5 STUDENTS + MEMBERS $9 GENERAL ADMISSION

Johnnie Lindsey, Christopher Scott and Steven Phillips in True Conviction Photo by Sarah Lim

FILM + CONVERSATION

Saturday, May 12, 8pm

MUDBOUND Mississippi Delta Dreamers Two families are pitted against one another by a ruthless social hierarchy in this epic story of farmers in the American South during World War II. Mudbound received a warm welcome at the Sundance and New York Film Festivals, and director Dee Rees will appear for a conversation with exhibiting artist Allison Janae Hamilton, whose Pitch in MASS MoCA’s galleries also draws influence from the sights, sounds, and history of the southern landscape.

RATED R CLUB B10 | FREE FOR MEMBERS $5 GENERAL ADMISSION This program is supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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FOR FAMILIES

WES SAM-BRUCE CAVERNOUS

Crawl through connected caverns of repurposed materials, painting, and text, created by artist Wes Sam-Bruce, which combine to form a mountain of exploration and fun in Kidspace, MASS MoCA’s kidcentered gallery (it’s fun for adults too!).

Step up to the ArtBar on weekends and during school breaks for art-making.

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. Additional support is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, Milton and Dorothy Sarnoff Raymond Foundation, Holly Swett, Feigenbaum Foundation, John DeRosa, Ruth E. Proud Charitable Trust, Hemera Foundation, MountainOne, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Bessie Pappas Charitable Foundation, Charles H. Hall Foundation, Adelard A. Roy and Valeda Lea Roy Foundation, the Gateway Fund and the William and Margery Barrett Fund of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, John F. and Judith B. Remondi, Guido’s Fresh Marketplace, and an anonymous donor.

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

Photo by Jason Reinhold

FOR MEMBERS

MEMBER HAPPENINGS MEMBERS-ONLY HOURS Thursdays 5– 6pm Saturdays 10 –11am

Experience James Turrell’s immersive installations and Laurie Anderson’s virtual reality worlds.

COCKTAILS WITH CURATORS Thursday, February 15, 5:30pm Denise Markonish Thursday, March 15, 5:30pm Alexandra Foradas Thursday, April 19, 5:30pm Susan Cross: The Lure of the Dark

Photo by Douglas Mason

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Reserve all Member Happenings: members@massmoca.org

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EXHIBITION

THE LURE OF THE DARK

CONTEMPORARY PAINTERS CONJURE THE NIGHT Sex, death, romance, magic, terror, and wonder; the night invites a myriad of often contradictory associations. For centuries, painters have been drawn to the mysteries of the night and its poetic possibilities. The Lure of the Dark features over a dozen artists who conjure the many moods of night as well as the light that illuminates the darkness ­— from the moon and the stars to candles, cigarettes, and the glow of cell phones.

Members Opening Reception March 24 FREE FOR MEMBERS | $20 NOT-YET-MEMBERS

RSVP to 413.664.4481 x8112 or members@massmoca.org Major exhibition support is provided by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the Barr Foundation, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

Contributing exhibition support is provided by The Artist’s Resource Trust (A.R.T.) Fund, a fund of Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation.

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Shara Hughes, Spins From Swiss, 2017 (detail) Courtesy of the artist and Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York

On view March 3

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EXHIBITION

ALLISON JANAE HAMILTON PITCH

Allison Janae Hamilton Untitled (Ouroboros), 2017 Courtesy of the artist

Inspired by the sights and sounds of the southern landscape, Allison Janae Hamilton’s works create a sense of place that is both magical and menacing—with Spanish moss decorating the knotted trees and alligators roaming the shallow waters. Pitch refers to the resin of the tall pines and the legacy of the turpentine industry in north Florida, as well as the stories set in the pitch black hours of night and the music that fills the humid air—from the noises of forest creatures to the humming of work songs.

Members Opening Reception March 24

On view March 25 FREE FOR MEMBERS | $20 NOT-YET-MEMBERS

RSVP to 413.664.4481 x8112 or members@massmoca.org Major exhibition support is provided by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the Barr Foundation, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

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EXHIBITIONS

On view beginning January 13

NATASHA BOWDOIN MANEATER

In the installation Maneater, Houstonbased artist Natasha Bowdoin re-imagines our relationship to the natural world.

Growing to consume the Hunter Hallway, a lush paper thicket of larger-than-life floral forms creep and crawl across the gallery wall and floor. In this world, a food chain is rebuilt, reinvesting nature with tooth and claw, thorn and root.

Members Opening Reception March 24 Major exhibition support is provided by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the Barr Foundation, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

Natasha Bowdoin, Maneater, 2017–18 Courtesy of the artist

On view beginning February 17

RACHEL HOWARD

PAINTINGS OF VIOLENCE (WHY I AM NOT A MERE CHRISTIAN) An installation of ten paintings and one sculpture examining religion, mortality, and what the artist calls “ ‘controlled violence’, meticulously planned and calmly executed.”

The title comes from two opposing polemics, Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell and Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis.

Members Opening Reception March 24 Principal exhibition support is provided by the Bohen Foundation. Major exhibition support is provided by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the Barr Foundation, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

Photo courtesy of the artist

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EXHIBITIONS

On view March–May

PLEDGES OF ALLEGIANCE Pledges of Allegiance, a project of Creative Time in NYC, is a serialized commission of sixteen flags, each created by an acclaimed artist, aiming to inspire political participation across cultural institutions and their communities.

We’ll raise 4 flags this spring.

Members Opening Reception March 24 Major exhibition support is provided by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the Barr Foundation, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

Marilyn Minter, RESIST FLAG, 2017. Photo by Guillaume Ziccarelli. Courtesy of Creative Time.

On view beginning April 7

ETEL ADNAN

A YELLOW SUN A GREEN SUN A YELLOW SUN A RED SUN A BLUE SUN For the Arab-American poet and artist Etel Adnan, language is both complicated and beloved, but painting can channel pure expression. Showcasing a selection of her abstract landscapes alongside a small reading room, this intimate exhibition invites visitors to consider the possibilities — and limits — of expression across mediums.

Etel Adnan: A yellow sun A green sun a yellow sun A red sun a blue 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. The exhibition is curated by Elise Chagas, a second-year student in the Williams College Graduate Program.

Etel Adnan, Untitled, 2017 (detail) ©Etel Adnan Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Lelong, New York Photo by Fabrice Gibert

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EXHIBITIONS + EVENTS

LIZ GLYNN

THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF ANOTHER POSSIBLE FUTURE What happens to stuff, and the people who make stuff, in the age of an increasingly virtual, dematerialized economy? Liz Glynn digs into these questions through a labyrinthine installation spread across 30,000 square feet.

ARTIST TALK

Thursday, March 8, 6pm Williams College, Griffin Hall

Liz Glynn discusses her practice and her monumental exhibition.

Liz Glynn, The Archaeology of Another Possible Future (installation view), 2017 MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA Courtesy of the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

Sponsored by the W. Ford Schumann Program in Democratic Studies at Williams College.

Principal exhibition support is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Barbara and Andrew Gundlach, and the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation.

Major support is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger, The Mohn Family Foundation, and Formlabs. Contributing support is provided by Stacy and John Rubeli, Girardi Distributors LLC, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the Barr Foundation, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Pam and Alix Karlan, Guido’s Fresh Marketplace, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and an anonymous donor.

JENNY HOLZER Encounter Jenny Holzer’s text-based work across the entire museum campus, including 21 of her carved stone benches, and an installation of more than 100 paintings and LEDs based on declassified government documents and poetry by acclaimed Polish author Anna Świrszczyńska.

FILM SCREENING + TALK

Friday, January 26, 4pm | CLUB B10

Museum educator Amanda Tobin leads a tour and discussion, followed by a screening of the Art21 episode, Protest, featuring the artist.

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Jenny Holzer, Barricade, 2004 (detail) Text: Building the Barricade by Anna Świrszczyńska, translated by Piotr Florczyk.

Translation copyright © 2016. Published by Tavern Books. Used by permission of Ludmilla AdamskaOrłowska and the translator. © 2004 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Jenny Holzer, Ribs, 2010 (detail) © 2010 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo by David Dashiell

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Principal exhibition support is provided by Anne and Gregory Avis. Major exhibition support is provided by the VIA Art Fund. Contributing exhibition support is provided by the Barbara Lee Family Foundation.

Sponsored in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services

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EXHIBITIONS

Once Around, Violet (Shallow Space), 1971 © James Turrell, photo by Florian Holzherr

“MASS MoCA, the vast, multibuilding museum of contemporary art here, is a weird and wonderful place...

Its mission seems to be to appeal to everyone, both the entry-level art lover and the sophisticated one.”

—The New York Times

ALSO ON VIEW IN THE GALLERIES

SEASONAL On view beginning April 14 except where noted

JAMES TURRELL

JOE WARDWELL

LOUISE BOURGEOIS

MARY LUM

LAURIE ANDERSON

NATALIE JEREMIJENKO

ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG

DON GUMMER

DAWN DEDEAUX & LONNIE HOLLEY

METABOLIC STUDIO

GUNNAR SCHONBECK

BARBARA ERNST PREY

IN THE ABSTRACT On view through April 9

SARAH CROWNER

THE HALF-LIFE OF LOVE On view through March 25, 2018

JULIANNE SWARTZ

STEFFANI JEMISON On view through February 25 TANJA HOLLANDER On view through February 12 ELIZABETH KING On view through January 22 SOL LEWITT SPENCER FINCH JANICE KERBEL

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CHRIS DOMENICK JOSEPH BEUYS MICAH LEXIER JARVIS ROCKWELL CHRISTINA KUBISCH

ANSELM KIEFER On view beginning May 26 DEAN BALDWIN On view beginning in summer MARKO REMEC ZAROUHIE ABDALIAN MICHAEL OATMAN DRÉ WAPENAAR FRANZ WEST RICHARD NONAS STEPHEN VITIELLO

AROUND TOWN VICTORIA PALERMO WALTER FÄHNDRICH UPSIDE-DOWN TREES: REPLANTED MIKE GLIER BRUCE ODLAND & SAM AUINGER KLAAS HÜBNER AND ANDREW SCHROCK

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MAJOR SEASON SUPPORT Anonymous; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Anne and Gregory Avis; Barr Foundation; Institute of Museum and Library Services, Government Agency; Massachusetts Cultural Council Allen & Company; Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation; Alan and Leslie Beller, Joyce Bernstein and Lawrence Rosenthal; The Educational Foundation of America; Bridget and Donald Fawcett; Timur Galen and Linda Genereux; John L. Gardiner, Robert L. Gold; Andrew and Barbara Gundlach; Scott and Ellen Hand; Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation; George and Valerie Kennedy; Massachusetts Growth Capital Corporation; National Endowment for the Arts; Robert Rauschenberg Foundation; Anders and Yukiko Schroeder; Mark Simonian and Sheila Harley; Surdna Foundation; Charlie Thurston; US Department of Agriculture, Rural Development; W.L.S. Spencer Foundation; Susy and Jack Wadsworth; Williams College; Elisabeth Roche Wilmers and Robert Wilmers George W. Ahl III; Daniel and Samantha Becker; Bloomberg Philanthropies; City of Boston; Jennifer and Ian Deason; Susan W. Gold; Francis Greenburger and Isabelle Autones; Andrew and Christine Hall; Hall Art Foundation; O. Andreas and Diane Halvorsen; Joey and Ragnar Horn; Orion and Lisa Howard; Joan and Jim Hunter; Milton and Dorothy Sarnoff Raymond Foundation; Hans and Kate Morris; MountainOne; Nancy A. Nasher and David Haemisegger; The Porches Inn at MASS MoCA; The Robert W. Wilson Charitable Trust; Liz and Samuel Robinson; Yale University Anonymous; Artist’s Resource Trust Fund, a fund of Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation; Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Inc.; Ellen J. Bernstein; Boston Foundation; Susan and Duncan Brown; Citi; Gregory Crewdson and Juliane Hiam; John DeRosa; Feigenbaum Foundation; Formlabs; Meyer and Florence Frucher; Chrystina Geagan and James Parks; Donald Gummer and Meryl Streep; Agnes Gund; Frances Hellman and Warren Breslau; Highland Street Foundation; Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill; Joan Mitchell Foundation; Carol LeWitt; Dorothy Lichtenstein; Joyce Linde; The Mohn Family Foundation; Sandra Muss; New England Foundation for the Arts; Caroline Niemczyk; Susan B. Nimoy; City of North Adams; F. Lyon Polk and Hilary Edson; Rhode Island State Council on the Arts; Ruth E. Proud Charitable Trust; Stephen and Andrea Ryan; Joan and Michael Salke; Dan Schulman and Jennie Kassanoff; Carol and Bob Stegeman; Else Steiner; Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute; Holly Swett; Rachel and Jay Tarses; David and Julie Tobey Naomi Aberly and Laurence Lebowitz; Rory and John Ackerly; Avangrid Foundation; Christopher Bass; Berkshire Gas; Bradley and Terrie Bloom; Mark and Lauren Booth; Bright Ideas Brewing; Paul and Katie Buttenwieser; Kay and Elliot Cattarulla; Chip and Michele Moeller Chandler; Designtex; Peter Dey and Phyllis Ortved; Nancy Fitzpatrick and Lincoln Russell; Allan and Judy Fulkerson; Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund; Ann and Graham Gund; Carmela and Paul Haklisch; Katherine Hand and Matt Brogan; Hemera Foundation; Kurt and Charlotte Hemr; Peter and Marty Hurley; Adam and Alicia Ifshin; John and Maureen Jerome; Allison Johnson; The Joseph and Evelyn Rosenblatt Charitable Fund; Roberta and Michael Joseph; Casey Kaplan; Werner and Sarah-Ann Kramarsky; Lizbeth and George Krupp; Robert Lipp and Martha Berman; Tristin and Martin Mannion; Frank and Katherine Martucci;

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Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts; Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation; Henry McNeil; Michael and Agnese Meehan; Seton Melvin; The Midas Collaborative; Paula Cooper Gallery; Ken and Jennifer Pendery; Thomas and Barbara Putnam; Pamela and William Royall Jr.; Sakana Foundation; Mariko Silver and Thom Loubet; Gillian and Robert Steel; The Thompson Family Foundation; Lise and Jeffrey Wilks Adelson Galleries; David Aronowitz; Robert and Barbara Bashevkin; Julie Bedard; Thomas and Lily Beischer; Joan Benjamin and Laurence Cherkis; Stephen Berenson and Louise Barzilay; Berkshire Bank Foundation; Roz and Wally Bernheimer; Bessie Pappas Charitable Foundation; Blue Q; Charles H. Hall Foundation; Stacy and Eric Cochran; Color Services, LLC; Paula Cooper and Jack Macrae; Caroline Cunningham and Donald Young; Catharine B. Deely; Deering Banjo Company; Adrian and Liz Ann Doherty; Virginia Dwan; Eastman Guitars; Michael and Barbara Eisenson; Larry and Marilyn Fields; Spencer Finch; Walter and May-Wo Giger; Girardi Distributors, LLC; Greylock Federal Credit Union; Debbie Landau; MiYoung Lee; Nancy Maier; Richard and Ronay Menschel; Olivier and Laure Meslay; Bill and Tally Mingst; Mitchell and Caitlin Nash; Seth and Mary Nash; Suzanne Nash; Paul Neely; Clifford Ross; James Coulter Scala; Matthew Shakespeare and Fritz Backus; Douglas Steiner; Sheila M. Stone; Stop & Shop; Holly Taylor and Richard Lamb; Peter and Laurie Thomsen; Daryl Wickstrom and Steve Cunningham; Francis Williams and Keris Salmon Adelard A. Roy and Valeda Lea Roy Foundation; Adobe Systems, Inc.; Albany Public Library; Ann Artschwager; Ella Baff and John Badanes; John and Astrid Baumgardner; Stephanie Bernheim; Black Rock Foundation; Jeff Bliss; Thomas and Constance Bruce; George Cochrane and Lisa Panzera; Ellen and Casey Cogut; Colleen Croft; Jeffrey Davies; Gabriella de Ferrari; Anouk Dey and Cameron Tudhope; Jack and Maureen Dietze; The Dobbins Foundation; Michele and Jim Dodge; Robert and Evelyn Doran; Jane Coats Eckert; Anna Farrington; Joseph and Tracy Finnegan; John D. Finnerty; Juliet G. Flynt; Andrew and Tracy Foster; David Friedrich; Linda Goldstein; William F. Gorin; Annette Grant and Jonathan Baumbach; Michael and Sandra Hecht; Betsy and Jack Hellmann; Thomas and Janet Holland; Ian and Madeline Hooper; David and Charlene Howe; Stephen Jenks; Elizabeth Johnson; Meredith Kane; Alix and Pam Karlan; Emily-Jane Kirwan; Leslie Kogod and Laurie Goldberger; Jane and Leonard Korman; Raymond Kwok; Phyllis B. Lambert; John and Deborah Larkin; Raymond Learsy; Gary Leopold and Kim Colombi; Penny Low; Monica M. Mackey; Christopher and Claire Mann; Dan Mathieu and Thomas Potter; Leslie and Richard Morgenthal; Charles and Anne Mott; Richard Orris and Jennifer Nathan; Sheila Parekh and Christopher Blum; Bernie Pinsonnault and Dianne Cutillo; John F. and Judith B. Remondi; David and Deborah Rothschild; Brian Ruhl; Robert and Nancy Scerbo; Dara Schaefer and David Greenberg; Charles Schulze and Lucy Holland; Mary Lou and Jeff Shafer; Jack Shainman; Joseph and Molly Sheehan; Adam Sheffer; Larry Smallwood and Lisa Dorin; David Smith and Ranny Cooper; Jid and John Sprague; Joseph and Diane Steinberg; Sheree Stomberg and Peter Firestein; Richard and Janet Stratton; William and Emily Susman; Lauren and Ben Svenson; Mark and Amy Tercek; John W. Thoman Jr. and Lee T. Venolia; James and Mary Jane Thompson; Joseph Thompson; Jamee and Tom Todd; James and Kyung Turrell; UMass Fine Arts Center; Robert and Sarah Underhill; MariĂŤt Westermann and Charles Pardoe; Howard Williams and Thalassa Curtis; Donald and Barbara Zucker

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VISIT BOX OFFICE & INFORMATION 413.662.2111 | massmoca.org 1040 MASS MoCA Way North Adams, MA 01247

We hope you’ll visit downtown North Adams, check out Mount Greylock (Massachusetts’ highest peak), and dip into neighboring Adams and Williamstown while you’re in the Berkshires.

11am–5pm, closed Tuesdays Open Tuesdays during school breaks: February 20, April 17

ADMISSION

Adults $20 Seniors/Veterans $18 Students w/ID $12 Kids (6–16) $8 Mass. EBT / WIC Card Holder $2 Kids under 6 and museum members, including MCLA and Williams College students, always visit for free.

Admission to Kidspace is always free.

ArtBar is open weekends and every day during school breaks.

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3 Museum Combo Ticket $34 MASS MoCA, The Clark, and save 20% at Williams College Museum of Art store ArtCountry Combo Ticket $40 MASS MoCA, The Clark, Williams College Museum of Art, Bennington Museum Hancock Shaker Village Combo Ticket MASS MoCA, Hancock Shaker Village

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Norman Rockwell Combo Ticket $32 MASS MoCA, Norman Rockwell Museum

FREE PUBLIC TOURS Free with admission

Daily, 2pm Museum Highlights Saturdays, 12pm Sol LeWitt Sundays, 12pm Art = Truth

LIVE EVENTS

Reserve tickets for all performances even if admission is free. All performances and artists are subject to change, and often sell out. No refunds or exchanges. All events are rain or shine. Full bar service is available at most events.

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Wheelchairs and event listening devices are available.

PLAN YOUR VISIT

WINTER/SPRING HOURS

2-Day Admission (good for one week) There’s a lot to see, so take your time.

ACCESSIBILITY

berkshires.org destinationwilliamstown.org explorenorthadams.com mohawktrail.com

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