This month’s Flickr Finds showcases photos taken in, around, and under Vaughn Bell’s fabulous hanging Personal Home Biospheres. Enjoy!

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From b i r d

From shiffman

From amyolsonjewlery

From amc

From bizarrt

From superclever

From Amy Loves Yah

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Cheers,

Brittany

We just posted information about our upcoming summer 2009 exhibition, Guy Ben-Ner’s Thursday the 12th.  Take the time to watch the video and read the critic’s view to see what Guy Ben-Ner is all about.

It’s been awhile since I have posted any photos from The Miss Rockaway Armada’s ever changing installation Being Here is Better than Wishing We’d Stayed. I stopped by to examine the space a few minutes after the galleries opened this morning and was glad to see there was already a group young patrons wandering around in the gallery with wide eyes and even wider smiles.  When they found the spaceship area I heard one of them eagerly proclaim “I don’t want to leave EVER!”

Brittany

PS. If you haven’t bought your tickets to the Philip Glass conversation and performance on Friday, January 16, I highly recomend you do so ASAP.

Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing #999

We have been delighted to see so many glowing reviews of the Sol LeWitt Retrospective since we opened the new building last month. My Google Alert has been filled to the brim with reviews from bloggers and websites and we have amassed a collection of reviews from newspapers and magazines around the country.

Check out what the critics have to say about the installation:

Included here are links to some of our favorite reviews including Sebastian Smee’s review for The Boston Globe,  the review on art/design blog Cool Hunting, Holland Cotter’s review for The New York Times, and Richard Lacayo in Time, Andrea Shea’s piece on NPR, and Roger Catlin in The Hartford Courant.

We’d love to hear what you think of LeWitt.

From fabulous Marketing Intern Caitlin Foster:

Today I peeked into Building 5 with a few of the other interns to check out the latest phase of installation for The Nanjing Particles, Simon Starling’s upcoming show at MASS MoCA. Being able to witness the actual installation of a show as massive as Starling’s has been fascinating, and something I have been making a point to check out from week to week. Building 5 is open to the public during the process of setting up the show, something you don’t usually see in most museums, making it all the more worthwhile to observe. The installation is based on a photograph of Chinese workers brought in to break a strike in a shoe factory that was formerly housed in what is now MASS MoCA’s campus. This week saw Starling and the crew applying wallpaper depicting the expounded photograph to the large forms that you see when you first enter the room.

The Opening Reception for The Nanjing Particles will be held on Saturday, December 13 from 5:30-7:30 pm (remarks at 6:30 pm). The event is free to members/ $6 for not-yet-members. RSVP to the Opening Reception by calling 413.664.4481 x8112 or by e-mail. 

After the opening, join us for a work-in-progress showing of we become by dance company-in-residence LAVA.

Of all the recent articles on the LeWitt show, my favorite so far is Chris Cobb’s recounting in The Believer of his experience being one of the lead installers of the retrospective. (Only an abstract is available online, but we’re selling the issue in Hardware.)

You’ll get to learn all sorts of facts, like “Once the project started, there would be up to three people a day doing nothing but sharpening pencil leads.” Or “It also occurs to me that [Leonard] Nimoy, like LeWitt, had a fictional self—for Nimoy it was the dispassionate and logical Spock, for LeWitt it was his somewhat impersonal and abstract geometric wall drawings.” (Read the article to understand that one.)