Mass MOCA
An essential and integral part of MASS MoCA's mission are the more than 75 performances staged year-round, including popular music, contemporary dance, alternative cabaret, world music dance parties, outdoor silent films with live music, documentaries, and avant-garde theater.
- Contact Person:
- Address:
- 87 Marshall Street
- North Adams MA, 01247
- Phone:
- (413) 662-2111
- Website:
- http://www.massmoca.org/
630 BFA References to Mass MOCA
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Clyfford Still Unfolds in the Rockies Fine Arts
A Stand Alone Museum for Still Opens in Denver
By: - Nov 18th, 2011Ninety-four percent of Clyfford Still's output is now housed in a new museum in Denver. The hush hanging over his work has been broken and all the early excitement and praise he received from his peers and critics is proven correct in the paintings exhibited in this extraordinary viewing space.
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Former ICA and Whitney Director David A. Ross Fine Arts
Part One of a Feisty Dialogue
By: - Nov 18th, 2011In 2001 David A. Ross, after a four year "honeymoon" was fired as the director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Prior to that he served as director of Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Since departing as a museum director Ross has been a chameleon after decades in the art world with more than nine lives. Today he performs as lead singer with the band Red. His day gig is running a graduate program for the School of Visual Arts in New York.
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Dick Alcombright Wins Again in North Adams Opinion
Former Foe John Barrett, III Earns Seat on City Council
By: - Nov 09th, 2011As home to Mass MoCA, MCLA and a growing arts community North Adams is one of the most unique cities in the Commonwealth. There wasn't the same intensity and media coverage of the race this time between incumbent Dick Alcombright who handily defeated opponent Ron Boucher. The 2009 contest against old time pol, John Barrett, III was a bloodbath. To make things interesting Barrett has won a seat on the City Council. Whether he is there to help the city or hurt Alcombright remains to be seen. Stay tuned.
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Eclipse Mill Gallery Annual Fine Arts
North Adams Exhibition Extended to December 3
By: - Nov 08th, 2011The popular Eclipse Gallery Annual, featuring work by residents of the Eclipse Mill in North Adams, Mass. has been refreshed and extended until Saturday, December 3. Because of prior commitment of some artists the overview has been refreshed with new works inviting a second look at this lively annual exhibition.
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Short Films at Williamstown Film Festival 2011 Film
An Overview and 21 Shorts
By: - Oct 31st, 2011The 13th Season of the Williamstown Film Festival ended amidst the first Nor Easter during Fall season 2011. Call it lucky 13 ! This is the sixth and final BFA article, highlighting some of the 21 Shorts, which were screened throughout the two week long festival.
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Blizzard Disrupts Williamstown Film Festival Film
Jeff Kleiser and Dori Berinstein’s Carol Channing Documentary
By: - Oct 30th, 2011The sixth and final day of the 13th annual Williamstown Film Festival got clobbered by a freak October blizzard. There was a small audience for the superb Saturday program. For the annual lunch seminar Jeff Kleizer took us behind the scenes while spending two years creating special effects for a just released Bollywood action film Ra.One. The afternoon screening presented a documentary on three time Tony winner, Carol Channing created by three time Tony winner, Lori Berenstein. It was a win win for the audience.
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Never Stand Still at WFF Film
Film Celebrates Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival
By: - Oct 29th, 2011Over a number of years there have been annual collaborations between Jacob's Pillow and Mass MoCA. As a part of the Williamstown Film Festival the New England premiere of Never Stand Still, directed by Ron Honsa, was screened in the Hunter Center of Mass MoCA. The documentary film includes a sketch of the founding of the festival by Ted Shawn in 1941 as well as a collage of its diverse programming.
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Michael Conforti Discusses the Clark Art Institute Opinion
An Expanding Role for Contemporary Art with Mass MoCA
By: - Oct 24th, 2011Recently the Clark Art Institute held a press conference to discuss the final phase of a $145 million project for construction and renovation. We approached Michael Conforti, for the past 16 years the director of the museum, with follow up questions. In particular its relationship with Mass MoCA and future programming for modern and contemporary art. We also discussed concerns for the conservation risks of Parading the Relics as the Clark sends it treasures on an extended world tour.
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Williamstown Film Festival 2011 Film
The First of Two Weekends
By: - Oct 24th, 2011After three days and nights in the dark there is much to sort through in the particularly rich, varied, fertile and provocative 13th annual Williamstown Film Festival curated by its tasteful and insightful artistic director Steve Lawson. The festival continues through October 29.
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The Lie at Williamstown Film Festival Film
Opening Night of 13th Annual Event
By: - Oct 22nd, 2011For the opening night of the 13th annual Williamstown Film Festival, Steve Lawson, the executive director of WFF, selected a film he first viewed at Sundance. Before a capacity audience at Images Cinema, last night, Lawson introduced the feature film, The Lie, and followed that with a talk back and Q&A with the writer/ director/ star Joshua Leonard and his co star Jess Weixler.
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Most of The Clark Art Institute Closes in November Opinion
$145 Construction and Renovation by June 2014
By: - Oct 21st, 2011While the primary galleries of the Clark Art Museum will close in November for the final phase of a $145 expansion and renovation it will maintain programming on a limited basis. How that reflects on the norm of 200,000 annual visitors remains to be seen. Reducing the Clark in the mix will have a major impact on cultural tourism in the Northern Berkshires for the next few years. The construction, however, will create 500 temporary jobs with a $9 million economic impact.
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Williamstown Film Festival's Lucky 13 Film
Returns October 21-23 and 17-29
By: - Sep 20th, 2011Over two weekends (October 21-23 and 27-29), the Williamstown Film Festival's "Lucky 13th" season will include two East Coast and four New England premieres, family and late-night slots, titles from Sundance, Tribeca, and Toronto, and films featuring Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Carol Channing, Ezra Miller, Lewis Black, Kate Burton, Tony Shalhoub, Campbell Scott, and Christo. WFF will conclude with a salute to legendary director Sidney Lumet at the Clark Art Institute.
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Joe Manning on The Lewis Hine Project Opinion
The Mill Children at the Eclipse Mill Gallery
By: - Sep 12th, 2011Lewis Hine used his camera to expose the issue of child labor in America. In 1911 he created nine images of children about to start their 12 hour shift at the Eclipse Mill in North Adams, Mass. Through October 8 the Eclipse Mill Gallery is showing the special exhibition The Mill Children. The project was organized by gallerist Ralph Brill with Realist Painter William Oberst, Abstract Painter Dawn Nelson, Historian Joe Manning, Composer/Musician Matt Hopkins, Filmmaker Steven Borns and Educator Anne French. Wespoke with Joe Manning about his ongoing Lewis Hine Project.
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Willard V. Jenkins on NEA Jazz Masters Opinion
Grammy and NEA Cutbacks Evoke Protests
By: - Sep 10th, 2011Recognition and support for the diversity of American music is under attack. For the 2012 Grammy Awards the number of categories has been reduced from 109 to 78 with a particular elimination of ethnic performers. There are similar consolidations for the NEA. We discussed this with Willard V. Jenkins who helped to bring the NEA Jazz Masters Jimmy Cobb and Gunther Schuller to the 2011 Tanglewood Jazz Festival.
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Mass MoCA Confirms Anselm Kiefer Installation Fine Arts
Adding to Success of the LeWitt Building
By: - Aug 08th, 2011Since December of 2010 we have been asking Joe Thompson about a long term installation of works by the major German contemporary artist Anselm Kiefer. He squirmed and refused to answer the question. As we have previously reported the museum is now in the process of creating another long term installation similar to the enormously successful building devoted to the late Sol LeWitt. It greatly strengthens North Adams as a global art world destination.
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Bang on a Can at Mass MoCA Music
Annual Banglewood Music Marathon
By: - Aug 03rd, 2011Although the Bang on a Can Summer Festival and Institute is often referred to as Banglewood, the similarity really does end there. If attendance is down, that’s okay cause Bang On A Can isn’t banking on an audience to succeed. It may be a festival but it’s also an Institute and that means money generated by ticket sales is pretty much beside the point. Ticket sales to Bang On A Can are like subscriptions to newspapers or magazines, they don’t pay the bills, rather they provide a more-or-less accurate measure of public reception.
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Kate Maguire of Berkshire Theatre Group Theatre
Midsummer Report on the Merger
By: - Jul 30th, 2011Kate Maguire is now half way through her first summer season as the Artistic Director and CEO of Berkshire Theatre Group. Since last November she presided over the merger of her Berkshire Theatre Festival with the Colonial Theatre. There was risk taking when Maguire mounted a brief run of Tommy starring Randy Harrison at the Colonial. We asked what she learned from the experience and how that impacts future planning for making the two theatres and three stages function as a combined entity. Her answers may surprise you.
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Critical Condition Arts in the Berkshires Opinion
Is Less More
By: - Jul 13th, 2011When Rocco Landesman, the head of the NEA, suggested that there are too many arts organizations with supply outweighing demand there was a response of outrage in the arts community. Here in the Berkshires it begs the question of sufficient audience and patrons to support four major theatre companies. It also begs the question of the role of critics? Are we just providers of consumer information for ticket buyers?
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Charles Dutoit Conducts at Tanglewood Music
Opening Night for 2011 Season
By: - Jul 09th, 2011A celebrity filled audience packed the Koussevitzky Shed for the opening night of the official Tanglewood season. Guest conductor Charles Dutoit presided over a program of music by Bellini, Rossini, Verdi and Respighi. On a rainy night it was a washout on the lawn. But, no worries, during a prequel, three sold out Shed concerts and one in Ozawa Hall by James Taylor, has financially front loaded the season.
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Berkshire Collectors Jay and Jane Braus Fine Arts
Exhibition at the Berkshire Museum Thorugh October 11
By: - Jul 07th, 2011The fine arts collectors Jay and Jane Braus divide their time between summers in the Berkshires and winters in Florida. When they sold their home in Larchmont a collection of major abstraction expressionist works was liquidated. But those bare walls in a Florida condo started them going again. Through October a selection of works from their collection is on view at the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield.
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James Taylor Marathon at Tanglewood Music
Knee High On the Fourth of July
By: - Jul 02nd, 2011Last night James Taylor joined the Pops conducted by John Williams in the shed at Tanglewood. It was the second of four performances, before a sold out crowd of 18,000, representing an abundance of riches from the Berkshire base troubadour regarded as a national treasure. Tonight, Saturday, he takes a breather yielding the Shed to another Tanglewood franchise, Garrison Keillor.
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Brandeis University Resolves Rose Art Museum Lawsuit Fine Arts
Museum to Observe Its 50th Year
By: - Jun 30th, 2011Today, Brandeis University president, Fred Lawrence stated in part "I am very pleased to inform you that Brandeis and the four plaintiffs involved in the Rose Art Museum litigation have reached an agreement to settle the case. As a result, their claims have been dismissed. In addition, the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General has officially terminated its review of Brandeis." The Rose will remain open.
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Solid Sound Festival Wraps Music
Levon Helm Band and Autumn Defense
By: - Jun 27th, 2011When Levon Helm, fronting a twelve piece band, performed to close the three day Solid Sound Festival, the audience had thinned by at least a third from the peak of 6,300 on Saturday night for Wilco. Folks by then had departed to get home and rest before work on Monday. We also caught a set by Autumn Defense fronted by Wilco members John Stirratt and the oh so pretty and charming Pat Sansone. Solid Sound was awesome.
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Wilco Solid Sound Festival Day Two Music
Here Comes the Sun, Kindah
By: - Jun 26th, 2011During the second of three days for the Wilco Solid Sound Festival at Mass MoCA inclement weather was again a factor. The sun played hide and seek with 6,000 rock fans.There was a letup that allowed taking in hour long sets by bands performing on several stages. By late afternoon showers returned. But the bad weather front retreated in time for the featured Wilco set on the muddy Joe Thompson Field. Overall it has been a fabulous festival.
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Wilco Performs at Mass MoCA Music
Singing in the Rain
By: - Jun 25th, 2011There was a light drizzle last night about a half hour before Wilco was scheduled to appear on stage in the vast Joe Thompson Field at the edge of the sprawling North Adams campus of Mass MoCA. By show time it was a downpour.
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