A long time ago in a gallery far, far away…

The last time we left our friends aboard the Millennium Falcon they were hurtling down yet another wormhole and narrowly escaping a terrible demise on the Planet LeWitt. Now as they are helplessly and blindly traveling through this wormhole they can only pray and hope that their destination is peaceful, calm and serene.

Upon exiting the wormhole they find that their prayers were answered being thrown into a vast uninhabited planet. Threepio informs the crew that the planet they have entered is Planet Starling, known for its desolate terrain and existence of two massive silver outcroppings and one even larger gateway. Read the rest of this entry »

Guy Ben-Ner will debut a new film commissioned for Performa 09, the Third Biennal of Visual Art Performance in New York.  The new work will be screened at the Performa Hub located at 41 Cooper Square from November 1-22.

Filmed and edited in-camera over the course of twelve months, Guy will present an unusual “live film� that captures an ongoing phone conversation he has with himself, flying to and fro between Berlin and Tel Aviv, as he sorts out the lives and relationships that he maintains in the peripatetic lifestyle that has become common for the global artist.

AND on Monday November 2  at 8 PM, Guy will be “in conversation� with Performa Founder RoseLee Goldberg at an event sponsored by Artis (who was also a sponsor for our show at MASS MoCA). A reception with Programma Magazine to follow courtesy of Pera. This event is free, RSVP required.

This month’s Flickr Finds features black and white photos from various MM locations and exhibitions.

Please note all photos shown in Flickr Finds blogs retain the copyright of the original photographer. To learn more about the photographer and the licensing of their images, click on the photographer’s name to visit their Flickr profile or webpage.

material guy

michelle.longo

clockworko51

Range of  Light

John Neidermeyer

Dan Hewins

Mock Heroic

Sara Blazevic

Cheers,

Brittany

P.S. If you would like to see your photos featured here next month make sure you add them to our Flickr Group (2,670 photos and counting!) for consideration. I’m also looking for themes for future Flickr Finds.  If you would like to see photos based on a specific color, exhibition, idea, etc… let me know!

We  did not get the Starling film about his trip down the Hudson as expected today. We are optimistic it will arrive Tuesday which means you can see it in the Building 5 gallery on Wednesday.  We’ll hope to see you then.

In a somewhat serendipitous set of circumstances, the beautiful Hudson River figures prominently in two events/exhibitions that will be here in the end of October: Simon Starling’s new film Red Rivers (In Search of the Elusive Okapi) is on view in the galleries from October 17 through November 1 and the film Against the Current, screens here on Saturday, October 24, as part of the Williamstown Film Festival. Read the rest of this entry »

We’ve had hundreds of beautiful photos of the Sol LeWitt Retrospective added to the MASS MoCA Flickr Group over the past few months.  Some of my favorite photos of the exhibition feature people in the space interacting with the wall drawings.  Below are a few that I thought you would enjoy.

Please note all photos shown in Flickr Finds blogs retain the copyright of the original photographer. To learn more about the photographer and the licensing of their images, click on the photographer’s name to visit their Flickr profile or webpage.

jumpingboy

onion peels

Jesse Santana

kleinmatt66

jennyberg

nivek123

grierhorner

Joshua Latham

Cheers,

Brittany

P.S. If you would like to see your photos featured here next month make sure you add them to our Flickr Group for consideration. I’m also looking for themes for future Flickr Finds.  If you would like to see photos based on a specific color, exhibition, idea, etc… let me know!