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!

Delighted to learn that Camille Utterback whose work appeared at Kidspace @ MASS MoCA from February 8 – August 19, 2002 in the exhibition Engaging Space: Works by Camille Utterback has received a prestigious MacArthur Grant. Congratulations to Camille!

Upon reading the title of Michael Glier’s new book, “Along a Long Line,” you might be wondering if he has changed his artistic focus from modernist abstract landscapes to the creation of tongue-twisters. Rest assured he hasn’t.  Rather his book documents his Longitude project part of a series that was on display at MASS MoCA in Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape last year. For Longitude, he has painted abstract-style landscapes along the 70th parallel starting just south of the Arctic Circle and working his way to tropical climes.

This new publication includes reproductions of Glier’s pieces as well as the detailed blog entries documenting his journey and personal photographs that reveal his impressions of the varying habitats. The result is at once a collection of breathtaking visual renderings in paint and photography as well as a mindful lesson in awareness of the diversity and fragility of this planet so few of us ever get a chance to fully experience.

Glier is familiar to MASS MoCA having just been featured in the exhibition Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape. He is also a graduate and professor of Art at Williams College in Williamstown, MA. Currently he has begun work on another project, Antipodes, where he will be traveling to opposite sides of the globe to create sets of contrasting painted landscapes.

It’s been way too long since I have posted a Flickr Finds blog. I’m going to try to make it up to you by posting two this month. For this first Finds I decided to collect photos of Simon Starling’s Nanjing Particles, which will be closing on October 31.  I love the way the reflections in the silver particles distort the interior of our building.  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.

Akemi Ueda

anobjectn

aperf8ectcircle

senatorfrisky

skissel

trailerfullofpix

Range of Light

hargo

Cheers,

Brittany

P.S. If you would like to see your photos featured here make sure you add them to our Flickr Group for consideration.