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 »

Our fabulous Marketing Intern Will went on an adventure through the non-public buildings of MASS MoCA to share his thoughts on the LeWitt Practice Walls:

After five weeks of working at MASS MoCA I finally gathered up enough courage to go wander our campus of abandoned factory buildings in search of a treasure that had intrigued me since my first week. Like any first week on the job I was taken around and given a tour of the building, shown where the bathrooms are, and given a history of the museum and the buildings we occupy. I learned that we have renovated and are using only 6 or so buildings out of a total of 27. I also learned that we use the remaining non-public buildings for a wide variety of things, mainly storage and workshops, but some hold treasures of times past. You can see previous MASS MoCA blogs that highlight the time capsule-like nature of our buildings, where you can find old tabloids with Tom Selleck on the cover. But what interested me most about these buildings were a set of practice walls used in preparation for the Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing Retrospective. Read the rest of this entry »

Dr. Dog just played Austin City Limits to rave reviews:

The Daily Texan said

The champion of the day was undoubtedly Philadelphia’s Dr. Dog. A compelling mix of folk, rock, indie, alternative and a host of other genres, the group operates in blissful obscurity, quietly producing brilliant tunes. Dr. Dog may never get the legendary status it deserves, but the group’s tight, energetic playing at ACL was something all bands need to take note of.

Other nice reviews were at Buzznet.com and The Rice Thresher, Rice University’s paper.

You still have ONE MORE DAY to enter our contest.

Post this Dr. Dog  button (or a link back to the this blog entry) on your favorite social networking sites by Wednesday, October 14 and  and we’ll enter you into a drawing for FREE tickets! Just send  a link  to every site you post the button on to bbishop@massmoca.org (subject line: Dr. Dog E-Flier). Each post or link counts as one entry. Please enter multiple times. You can also e-mail the flier to your friends, just CC bbishop@massmoca.org on the email.

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An Amsterdam based Mermaid is due to make her appearance at our HOOSAC RIVER LIGHTS IIa Event which is scheduled for Saturday, October 17 (OPEN STUDIOS WEEKEND) from 8 to 10PM.  Light Artists Inhye Lee, Rikayo Horimizu and Ganesh Ramanathan have been following Mermaid Beatrice over the past few weeks.  It appears that Beatrice has followed a fleet of Dutch ships into New York Harbor and up the Hudson River to Albany.  They came as part of last week’s massive celebration of the 400th Anniversary of Henry Hudson’s voyage.  Apparently instead of following the ships back down river Beatrice has gone north a bit to the mouth of the Hoosick River (known as the Hoosic, Hoosac and Hoosuck up here) and is making her way to North Adams to see the Sol LeWitt Exhibition at MASS MoCA.  Inhye has reported spotting Beatrice at the Hoosick Falls in New York and she is expected to arrive in North Adams around 8PM on the 17th.  If the evening air is warm enough Beatrice will try to exit the Hoosac River at Holden Street around 8:30PM.  This is a big one for North Adams as no Mermaid has ever been spotted so far inland before.  You don’t want to miss this – something to tell your grandkids about so bring your cameras.  It is reported that VP Joe Biden might come to North Adams to greet Beatrice.