18 • Summer Previews 2021
Saturday, June 19, 2021
MASS MOCA
A summer of celebrations Two new installations — James Turrell’s Skyspace C.A.V.U. and Taryn Simon’s “The Pipes” — will greet visitors to Mass MoCA this summer. Turrell’s Skyspace is 40 feet in diameter and 40 feet high and more than 30 years in the making. This repurposed concrete water tank is transformed into one of Turrell’s signature immersive light installations. The North Adams campus will also be filled with pop-up performances and outdoor concerts. The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art 1040 MASS MoCA Way, North Adams 413-662-2111, massmoca.org EVENTS June 5, 12, 19: For this local hero-themed Auditory After Hours, four members of the North Adams-based creative community Common Folk — producer Dan O’Connell, indie rocker Ciarra Fragale, singersongwriter Melanie Glenn, and electro-experimentalist Wallasauce — collaborate to create a one-of-a-kind soundtrack for the museum’s galleries. 7 p.m., 7:30 p.m., 8 p.m. Tickets start at $18.
Friday, June 25 and Saturday, June 26: Photographer Alec Soth collaborates for the first time with drummer/composer Dave King of the jazz duo The Bad Plus. The result is a new multimedia work-in-progress performance that delves into the physicality of memory that’s been lost in the digital age. Tickets start at $25, 8 p.m. Saturday, June 26: Time of Now: History + Memory. This in-person and virtual event explores the relationship between individual memory and collective history, and how the past continues to shape
our present reality. Pop-up performances, activities, inperson and virtual talks, and self-guided tours will bring together a group of thinkers, performers, and artists for public events throughout the museum. Free with museum admission. Saturday, June 26: A celebration of the summer season and the opening of new installations by Taryn Simon (The Pipes) and James Turrell (C.A.V.U.), as well as current exhibitions by Blane De St. Croix, Glenn Kaino, Richard Nielsen, Wendy Red
Star, and Gamaliel Rodríguez, and the group exhibitions Close to You, “How does your horn sound?”, and Kissing through a Curtain. Free with museum admission. Saturday, June 26: Outdoor concert performance by two young luminaries working at the intersection of ambient and electronic music – vocalist Julianna Barwick and harpist Mary Lattimore. 9 p.m., tickets start at $35. Saturday, July 3: Brooklynbased experimentalist L’Rain brings an ethos of
Saturday, June 19: Artist Shaun Leonardo, in collaboration with community members, leads a series of interactive activities throughout the day in You walk…, in honor of Juneteenth. Free with museum admission. Saturday, June 19: In this outdoor pop-up performance, Passion Fruit Dance Company explores how “the groove” can be a roadmap to social justice through the physical expression of Black culture. Free with museum admission.
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“How to Move a Landscape,” by artist Blane De St. Croix is now on view at Mass MoCA.
