Jeremy Goodwin proffers his thoughts on Friday’s show in the Berkshire Eagle. Thanks for the shout out to our future potentially legendary shows.  We aim to please!

We could not be more delighted at the news that our dear friend David Lang, one of the co-founders of Bang on a Can who spends every summer right here in North Adams at the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA is this year’s recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for music. He’s pictured above in the center of this photo by Peter Serling with Michael Gordon and Julia Wolfe. A bouquet of roses (from Quadland’s) for you David!

We are heralding the recent arrival of the LeWitt team. We’ve got 24 master artists plus 12 apprentices. The masters — senior and seasoned assistants who worked with the artist before his death in 2007 — include Tomas Ramberg, Nikolai Angelov, Takeshi Arita, Michael Vedder, Sachiko Cho, Elizabeth Christ, Megan Dyer, Lacey Fekishazy, Gabriel Hurier, Sarah Heinemann, John Hogan, Nick Kozak, Roland Lusk, Hideni Namura, Amy Rashbone, Emily Ripley, Anthony Sansotta, Mio St. Clair, Wim Starkenburg, Andrew Colbert, Chip Allen, Chris Cobb, Nobutu Suga.

Under the direction of Tomas Ramberg and Anthony Sansotta, teams of installers have been created with one of the master artists leading the interns and apprentices. The process of taking LeWitt’s original instructions for a wall drawing through to completion requires great attention to detail, and fosters a strong sense of camaraderie among the installers, who will be in residence through September 2008. In addition to intensive technical instruction, interns will benefit from lessons in art history each week and a behind-the-scenes view of the work of museums. Special gallery tours and seminar sessions will be given by MASS MoCA, Williams College Museum of Art, and the Yale University Art Gallery.

Apprentices, who are recent graduates with studio arts training, and who will be trained extensively in all techniques, are: Emily Arauz from Wellesley College, Sylvia Birns-Swindlehurst from Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, Lexie Bouwsma from Hampshire College, Matt Capezzuto from Yale School of Art, Emily Colman from School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (welcome back to Emily who was the marketing intern here last year!), Julia Isenberg from Mt. Holyoke College, Aran Jones from Hampshire College, Heather Macionus from Truman University, Sam McCune from Trinity Christian College, Courtney McIlhenney, a North Adams resident, Anna Pickens from Alfred State College, Amanda Sciullo from Savannah College of Art and Design, and Jordan Starr-Bochicchio from University of Southern Florida.WELCOME ALL. We’re delighted you’re here! Remember April is the cruelest month, but there’s nothing like summer in the Berkshires!

We’re delighted to have more than a dozen artists from The Miss Rockaway Armada in residence working on their installation which will be open to the public starting April 19. Check their blog for photos documenting their search for materials in the unrenovated buildings on the MASS MoCA campus. They’ll offer a FREE performance great for all ages on April 12 too.

Ian Nelson from Daily Collegian weighs in on Malkmus, the Jicks, and John Vanderslice.
What did you think?

They’ll be here tomorrow night. Show is not sold out yet, but it will be so get your tickets today (plus they’ll cost more day of show!) If you’re on the fence, here’s an interview on Fair Game.