We have a new feature available to you thanks to the wonders of Google and Yahoo. If you have a personal e-mail or calendar account with either of these search engines you can now add MASS MoCA events to your own calendar. The steps are simple, log on to your account then search for MASS MoCA in the public calendars window. Subscribe to the MASS MoCA Google Calendar and it will automatically add all of our events to your calendar. In Yahoo visit the MASS MoCA Calendar and choose which events you would like to add. Each event has as ‘add this to my calendar button.’  Quick, simple, easy and it’s definitely worth your time to set up.

Also be on the lookout for our Winter/Spring Calendar to be delivered in mid-November.

For those of you looking forward to seeing Yo La Tengo at MASS MoCA in November make sure to buy your tickets in advance! This is a very popular show and will sell out. Don’t be disappointed, buy your tickets NOW.

Cheers

Brittany

The past two weeks several of my fellow officemates and I attended the Art:21 preview series at The Clark. After discussing the episodes among ourselves and hearing what the panel, as well as the rest of the audience had to say, it became obvious that the format of the shows was a major complaint. Each episode took on a theme and then presented four or five artists who loosely used that theme in their art making process. The artist was presented as a ‘talking head’ as one panelist referred to the set up. Obviously there was someone asking the artist questions on particular subjects, but that person was omitted in the final cut and therefore the audience had no clue what encouraged the artist to speak on different subjects.

I bring this up because I think I might have a better format for Art:21 to consider. In fact, my officemates and I have been playing around with the idea of making our own show.

Here is the idea: We pair artists that are here at the museum and allow them to ask each other questions. How awesome would it be to see Spencer Finch and Fransje Killars ask each other questions? Or perhaps Theo Jansen from The Believers and Erik van Leishout? The logistics of these pairings are still in question, but I wanted to ask you, our faithful blog readers, if we here at MASS MoCA made a short video show once a month or so what other sort of features would you want to see? Send me your ideas!

Cheers,

Brittany

PS. Have you bought your tickets for The Teenage Prayers yet?

Really nice photos of the installation of Anselm Kiefer’s Etroits sont les Vaisseaux on this blog.

Laura Christensen who was most recently part of Boxed Sets in Kidspace and served as our education coordinator until July of this year is part of Contemporary Berkshires, an exhibition at Kolok Gallery opening October 13th 3-5pm. Also in the show is Laurie McLeod who had Waterhaven #1 at MASS MoCA in summer 2004. Kolok Gallery is presenting this exhibition featuring nine contemporary artists based in the Berkshires in conjunction with the second annual North Adams Open Studios weekend. Exhibition runs through December 22, 2007.

North Adams Open Studios, the highly successful citywide art show that debuted last October, returns this year for the weekend of October 13th and 14th. In addition to the exhibition at Kolok Gallery, more than 85 local artists will be exhibiting their Read the rest of this entry »

We’re open on Monday, October 8 (Columbus Day) and offering tours at noon and 3 PM.  Our intern Emily Colman just got trained, her first public tour is Monday at 3 PM.  We’re delighted to welcome another new guide the wonderful Karen Matthews.  Stop by for her first tour on Saturday at noon.

Also on Monday, if you like big trucks, come see Anselm Kiefer’s Etroits sont les Vaisseaux get craned into the gallery. This 82′ long (divided into sections) concrete wave will be installed on the second floor as part of Anselm Kiefer: Sculpture and Paintings from the Hall Collection opening October 19.  Join us for the opening (free if you’re a member — if you’re not already a member, join today and we’ll send you an invite!)

We’re part of an exciting tour put together by our friends at the Center for Ecological Technology called the Green Buildings Open House. From 10 AM - 1 PM on Saturday, October 6 you can learn about the 228 photovoltaic panels on the roof of Building 5 at MASS MoCA which produced an average of 1500 kilowatt hours per week in the summer. We’ll also unveil the first part of a new work that we commissioned from artist and all around exceptional guy Michael Oatman in conjunction with the solar project. There’s a puzzle for you to solve — come learn more about it.

And don’t stop your tour with MASS MoCA, the Green Buildings Open House includes private homes and public buildings around the county including Topia Inn just down the road at 10 Pleasant St. in Adams which features the ultimate in purity and ecological friendliness — luxury pampering and near zero carbon impact.