![]() Thumbs Up for the Mothership, by Dawn Dedeaux and Lonnie Holley, is surreal, inspired by ancient Rome and Egypt, medieval Europe, with a wrecking ball and ghost images cast onto a wall. It’s engaging, truly weird, but interesting instead of off-putting.Īnother exhibit, The Lure of the Dark, features mysterious photographs and paintings whose subjects are set in darkness, and Pitch, by Allison Janae Hamilton, is a fantasy woodland, complete with tree trunks, another landscape that you can explore. This is the kind of crazy thing that you come to Mass MOCA to see. Then you’ll see hospital gurneys, neon colors, and tools with plaster hands added to the handles. In one shipping container, you’ll come across a one-man band playing an accordion, next to a set of turning gears. ![]() It’s strange, but also beautiful, and large enough that it forms its own otherworldly landscape, a place that you can explore and make discoveries inside. You’ll find towering pyramids of wooden warehouse pallets and metal shipping containers, and also dioramas of everyday objects including toys, then abstract constructions of cement and wood. Our favorite exhibit was a huge one, Liz Glynn’s The Archaeology of Another Possible Future, which inhabits a two-story warehouse-sized space. The exhibits are always changing, but the museum kindly allowed a visit in August 2018. If you find modern art hard to get, it’s the perfect destination because they have so many exhibits that you’re bound to find something accessible to offset the exhibits that may be too edgy. The next time you’re in the Berkshires or heading out to New York, make Mass MOCA part of your trip.Īs a modern art museum, and it’s 20 times larger than the Institute for Contemporary Art in Boston, you’ll always find something striking at Mass MOCA that you’ve never seen before. One of the blessings of living in Massachusetts, the most densely populated US state (after New Jersey and Rhode Island), is that Massachusetts has enough people to support world-class arts organizations outside of its metro areas. ![]() ![]() My favorite museum in western Massachusetts is Mass MOCA, The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, out in the northwest corner of the state, a hop from both New York and Vermont. ![]()
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