MASS MoCA Winter | Spring 2016 Brochure

WINTER / SPRING 2016 ON STAGE & IN THE GALLERIES

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NICK CAVE

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Strange Music History

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HIGH MUD COMEDY

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TAYLOR MAC

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RICHARD NONAS

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ABOVE AND BEYOND

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BIG DANCE THEATER

KICKBOXING WORKSHOP

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LOVE AND MARRIAGE IN KABUL

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MIKAEL JORGENSEN’S QUINDAR & FRIENDS

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CHRIS GETHARD

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LAURIE ANDERSON’S HEART OF A DOG

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DANIEL WOHL: HOLOGRAPHIC

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We also have a great roster of fully realized performances, including the powerhouses Angelique Kidjo, Jason Walker, and Ruby Amanfu, and the unpredictable Chris Gethard, who primes the pump as we experiment with a shiny new comedy festival built for the depths of the Berkshires’ mud season. And we open three major new exhibitions in the main galleries, so the place will be abuzz with fresh art in every form.

Joseph Thompson Director P.S. Become a member if you aren’t already; members make our programming possible, and enjoy great deals on performing arts tickets, free museum admission, and lots of other perks. We need you... join us!

MUSICAL LABYRINTHS ―

DANIEL WOHL: HOLOGR APHIC Saturday, January 16, 8pm HUNTER CENTER | $8 STUDENTS | $12 ADVANCE $18 DAY OF | $22 PREFERRED

Artist Daniel Schwarz’s lush visuals accompany composer Daniel Wohl’s “boldly surreal” (The New York Times) music, synching audio and visual content projected in real time for this multisensory audience experience. Co-commissioned

by MASS MoCA, Wohl’s new album Holographic comes to life in this work-in-progress performance.

photo: Joseph Loeffler

The one exception to MASS MoCA’s inverted iceberg phenomena is our performing arts residencies, during which choreographers, dramatists, musicians, videographers, dancers, and actors spend hundreds of hours behind the scenes—in technical rehearsals, writing workshops, and editing suites— preparing new material. During these residencies, artists live and work in North Adams, taking advantage of the museum’s excellent production facilities and talented support staff to craft their work. This spring is especially rich in workshops: Paul Lazar and Annie-B Parson’s Big Dance Theater (creating a performance specifically for our galleries); Rinde Eckert, Paola Prestini, Mark Stewart. amd Julian Crouch (making new musical theater with producer Beth Morrison), and Wilco’s Mikael Jorgensen, who loves to work on projects in our Hunter Center (this time he’s here with friends to craft their new entry for the annual Ecstatic Festival in NYC). You can get an inside glimpse into these new works with our signature “work-in-progress” showings, detailed here.

Album and live performance commissioned by Liquid Music, MASS MoCA, Baryshnikov Arts Center, and Indianapolis Museum of Art. Visual art by Daniel Schwarz commissioned by The Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul. This program is supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

LIVE MUSIC

photo: Gabriel Judet-Weinshel

MASS MoCA is an inverted iceberg. We might have a work of art crated for transit every now and then, but—by and large—if we have it, you see it. Even our installation work is almost always on view: hammers and tongs, forklifts and white gloves. At MASS MoCA the continuum of art-making unfolds before your eyes (especially in the spring, which is when we change over most of our galleries). It is lively, and sometimes messy.

Mikael Jorgensen in residence with Helado Negro, Spring 2014

Most museums are icebergs, with 90% of their holdings buried in the basement.

photo: Nathan Lee Bush

WORK-IN-PROGRESS

FRESHGRASS PRESENTS ―

BIRDS OF CHICAGO Saturday, January 23, 8pm CLUB B10 | $10 STUDENTS | $16 ADVANCE $22 DAY OF | $28 PREFERRED

Birds Chicago takes a victory lap and in Club The Spaceof Between is made possible by the Sterling Francine Clark Art Institute in support of MASS MoCA and the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art. B10 after blowing minds at last September’s

Barbara Takenaga Francesco Francesco Clemente: Encampment is supported byhusbandthe Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the MassachusettsClemente Cultural Council, and FreshGrass Festival.

Mesmerizing Blain|Southern Gallery. wife duo JT Nero and Allison Russell anchors Nebraska

this soul-inflected, groove-based Americana.

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Encampment

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FOR FAMILIES

WORK-IN-PROGRESS

photo: Joseph Loeffler

FREE DAY Saturday, January 30, 11am – 7pm

photo: Christine Rogala

ALL OVER THE PLACE!

BIG DANCE THEATER ―

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Join us for our annual day of free admission.

Enjoy elevator music (played live), art-making, gallery tours, and pop-up performances.

Check the web for a detailed list of activities.

Artist residency sponsored by IMLS and MCC Star grants

Wednesday, February 10 Friday, February 12 Saturday, February 13 Performances each day at 12pm and 3pm GALLERIES | GALLERY ADMISSION + $5

Space is very limited; call early to reserve: 413.662.2111 x1 A performance-based museum audio/docent tour created by Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar, this interactive event changes how we experience a museum—disrupting, confusing, and ultimately reconsidering the ways we see art. Misdirection, alienation, and confession reposition art we thought we already knew. Purchase tickets by phone.

This program is supported in part by the Irene Hunter Fund for Dance at MASS MoCA in association with Jacob’s Pillow Dance.

This program is supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

“This is one people will be talking about.”

– Joseph Thompson Director

COMEDY

COMEDY ON THE FRINGE photo: Zac Wolf

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CHRIS GETHARD Saturday, January 30, 8pm CLUB B10 | $10 STUDENTS $16 ADVANCE | $22 DAY OF | $28 PREFERRED

You might recognize him from appearances on The Office, Parks and Recreation, Broad City, and Louie—but comedian Chris Gethard is most at home in the underground, doing his slightly nerdy, somewhat caustic, devilishly cerebral standup, and hosting his eponymous gonzo cable access show. He’ll be right at home at MASS MoCA. Supported by the Freight Yard Pub.

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ALL OVER THE PLACE!

ANGELIQUE KIDJO

HUNTER CENTER | $30 STUDENTS | $32 ADVANCE $39 DAY OF | $49 PREFERRED

Beninoise world music icon Angelique Kidjo arrives for an intimate acoustic performance that will change your life. “The power of Kidjo’s unflappable voice, the range of her emotional expression, the stellar, genre-bending musicians who back her and the infectious, activist energy that courses through her songs all transcend any native tongue.” (NPR Music)

photo: Robbie Lee Photography

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Saturday, February 13, 8pm

LIVE MUSIC

photo: Pierre Marie Zimmerman

THE FIRST LADY OF AFRICAN SONG

LIVE MUSIC

SOUL POWERHOUSE ―

JASON WALKER Saturday, February 20, 8pm CLUB B10 | $10 STUDENTS | $16 ADVANCE $22 DAY OF | $28 PREFERRED

“Angelique Kidjo is a force of nature—she is a rare mix of fiercely riveting, sexy, global, and inspiring.”

Brooklyn vocalist Jason Walker comes from a multigenerational music family—he was cradled in the arms of Mahalia Jackson as a child, and has shared the stage with Mick Jagger, Bono, and Lou Reed. His own music is a sublime, gospel-infused soul, which will be especially affecting in our intimate Club B10.

– Rachel Chanoff Curator of Performing Arts + Film

WORK-IN-PROGRESS

photo: Jill Steinberg

Work-in-Progress: Music

EXTRAORDINARY COLLABORATION ―

THE AGING MAGICIAN Saturday, February 27, 8pm HUNTER CENTER $8 STUDENTS | $12 ADVANCE $18 DAY OF | $22 PREFERRED

Calling this exciting new theatrical production a musical betrays the collaborative magic of its production team, including theater-maker Rinde Eckert, composer Paola Prestini, director Julian Crouch, and instrumentmaker Mark Stewart. Produced by Beth Morrison, The Aging Magician follows a man the end ofArthis The Space Between is made possible by the Sterlingnear and Francine Clark Institute in support of MASS MoCA and the Williams College Graduate Program in the History Art. strangely sweet journey peculiar life on an oddofbut through Coney Island, all punctuated by the lovely Foundation, Barbara Takenaga Francesco Francesco Clemente: Encampment is supported by the Horace W. Goldsmith the MassachusettsClemente Cultural Council, and Blain|Southern Gallery. Choir.

Brooklyn Youth Nebraska Encampment This program is supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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FILM WITH LIVE MUSIC

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Ken Winokur of Alloy Orchestra visits MASS MoCA with his new film and live music project, Psychedelic Cinema, which revitalizes cult filmmaker Ken Brown’s Super 8 films from the late 1960s, which were used as light shows for Jimi Hendrix, Grateful Dead, and Sly Stone. Winokur and his accomplices overlay his signature junk percussion, melodic clarinets and keyboards, and recorded speeches and audio artifacts to dazzling effect. massmoca.org

CRAZY COMEDIANS! FUNNY FILM! 1,000 LAUGHS A MINUTE! (Or at the very least, good beer!)

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WILLIAM TYLER QUINDAR NICK HALLETT

photo: Shervin Lainez

photo: Austin Nelson

WILCO’S MIKAEL JORGENSEN IS BACK

LIVE MUSIC

SUPERSTAR IN THE MAKING ―

RUBY AMANFU Saturday, April 2, 8pm CLUB B10 | $10 STUDENTS | $16 ADVANCE $22 DAY OF | $28 PREFERRED

Dubbed “Nashville’s Next Indie Star” by Billboard, the astonishing soul-rock singer Ruby Amanfu is a force. Since her star turn on Jack White’s Love Interruption in 2012, she was nominated for a Grammy, toured with Norah Jones, and released her transcendent 2015 debut, Standing Still.

Saturday, March 19, 8pm HUNTER CENTER | $8 STUDENTS | $12 ADVANCE $18 DAY OF | $22 PREFERRED

Mikael Jorgensen of Wilco teams up with art historian and curator James Merle Thomas (his partner in Quindar), performer and composer Nick Hallett, and guitarist William Tyler for a new project that blends Quindar’s intergalactic sonic waves with folk fingerpicking and Fred Engelberg film.

Workshopped at MASS MoCA, the piece will debut at the Ecstatic Music Festival in NYC, then return to North Adams for a weekend performance.

“I’m looking forward to a lot this season, but perhaps Ruby most of all.”

– Sue Killam Managing Director of Performing Arts + Film

WORK-IN-PROGRESS

Saturday, March 26, 8pm

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M IS BLACK ENOUGH

M is Black Enough exercises spirited conversation and debate through steelpan, cello, text, and voice.

Cellist Jeffrey Zeigler, of Kronos Quartet fame, teams up with composer and percussionist Andy Akiho and poet Roger Bonair-Agard for a program of spoken word and music, both complex and aggressive.

Presented in collaboration with National Sawdust.

photos (l–r): Axel Dupeux, Aestheticize Media, courtesy the artist

BEAUTIFUL COLLISIONS

photo: Kevin Yatarola

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WORLD’S WILDEST HISTORY LESSON ―

TAYLOR MAC Saturday, April 9, 4–10pm HUNTER CENTER | $10 STUDENTS | $14 ADVANCE $20 DAY OF | $24 PREFERRED

“Fabulousness can come in many forms, and Taylor Mac seems intent on assuming each and every one of them.” (The New York Times) The inimitable theater artist presents a work-in-progress performance of the latest installment from his 24-Decade History of Popular Music, an outrageously entertaining romp through 240 years of American culture as seen through music–from Tin Pan Alley to disco and beyond. The decades du jour are 1836-1896. Come and go as you please during this 6-hour performance, with half-price gallery admission for all ticket holders.

This program is supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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ARTIST TALK

photo: Saverio Truglia

photo: Pete Lee

LIVE MUSIC

BRING ON THE FUNK

Saturday, April 16, 8pm

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DEBO BAND

The eleven-piece Debo Band expands upon the repertoire of Ethiopia’s golden era of Afro-pop. The band’s 2012 debut, released on Sub Pop to huge acclaim, offers some of the most infectious groovebased Ethio-funk ever recorded. You will dance!

ARTIST TALK: NICK CAVE

photo: Stephan de las Heras

WORK-IN-PROGRESS

Tuesday, April 12, 5pm HUNTER CENTER | FREE FOR MEMBERS $5 ADVANCE | $8 DAY OF

CHANGE MATTERS ―

ZVIDANCE: ON THE ROAD Saturday, April 23, 8pm

In October 2016 artist Nick Cave transforms MASS MoCA’s Building 5 with Until, his most ambitious exhibition to date. Known for his Soundsuit sculptures and performances, at MASS MoCA Cave turns his art inside out to create a dazzling, immersive environment provoking vital exchanges about class, race, identity, and guns. Hear Cave share his vision to convert our football field-size gallery into a seductive, performative gathering space, in dialogue with curator Denise Markonish.

HUNTER CENTER | $8 STUDENTS | $12 ADVANCE $18 DAY OF | $22 PREFERRED

This multimedia production examines the general upheaval of the 1960s and the Beat Generation’s startling notions of social rebellion. As society today still grapples with the change of that era, this multimedia work reminds us why it matters.

This program is supported in part by the Irene Hunter Fund for Dance at MASS MoCA in association with Jacob’s Pillow Dance.

Presented in collaboration with the Williams College Art Department and Williams College Museum of Art

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LIVE MUSIC

photo: Desdamona Burgin

DRUMMER WORSHIP

Saturday, May 7, 8pm

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BOOM TIC BOOM!

photo courtesy the artist

WORK-IN-PROGRESS

DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE

Thursday, May 19 & Friday, May 20

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IN THE GALLERIES $5 MEMBERS | $10 NOT-YET-MEMBERS

PROJET SITU: THE ROUND

Allison Miller, “a drummer of fierce clarity and bold imagination” (London Guardian) who was here last summer with Toshi Reagon, returns with her smoking hot band—which includes Jenny Scheinman, Myra Melford, Todd Sickafoose, Ben Goldberg, and Kirk Knuffke—for a night of propulsive rhythm and melody.

Call to reserve your space: 413.662.2111 x1 French duo Projet Situ presents an experimental, site-specific work combining movement, technology, participatory theater, and sound installation, a performative answer to The Space Between, a museum-wide exhibition focused on transitional spaces. Audience members get earbuds to use with their cell phones, then follow instructions that uncover a choreographed journey through MASS MoCA. Purchase tickets by phone.

Funded in part by the Expeditions program of the New England Foundation for the Arts and made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional support from six New England state arts agencies

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ALL OVER THE PLACE! DOCUMENTARY FILM SERIES

LIVE MUSIC

Young love, forbidden love, love of country, love of dog— however you look at it, love is never simple. This edition of our annual documentary film series explores many sides of the human heart.

photo: Deirdre O’Callaghan

LOVE IS COMPLICATED 7:30pm screenings CLUB B10 | $5 STUDENTS + MEMBERS | $9 GENERAL

image courtesy Abramorama/ HBO Documentary Films

LAURIE ANDERSON’S HEART OF A DOG Thursday, January 21

image courtesy International Film Circuit

ABOVE AND BEYOND

image courtesy Palangi Productions

LOVE AND MARRIAGE IN KABUL

image courtesy HBO

Laurie Anderson brings us an autobiographical film about love and loss. Anderson weaves childhood memories and video diaries into a touching tribute to Lolabelle, her beloved terrier.

HOW TO DANCE IN OHIO

Thursday, February 11 In 1948, as Europe emerged from total war, a small group of Jewish-American fighter pilots returned to the battlefield for a new cause: the Israeli War of Independence. This film tells the story of their journey back to the homeland.

Thursday, March 10 Mahboba Rawi is a strong-willed Afghan-Australian who dedicates her life to helping orphans in Afghanistan.

To help an orphan and his star-crossed lover, with one month and limited resources, Rawi must challenge traditions to make a marriage of love happen in Kabul.

EVERYTHING WE LOVE IS ON THE TABLE ―

THE NATIONAL

Thursday, April 21 Get to know three young women on the autism spectrum as they prepare for a spring formal dance.

This is a sharp, forensic revelation of all the anxieties associated with finding dates, dressing up, and the strange tradition of crowning a prom queen.

Saturday, June 11, 8pm JOE’S FIELD | RAIN OR SHINE GENERAL ADMISSION | $49 EARLY BIRD

We’ve been following The National since 1999, the same year we flung open our doors. Since then, the Ohio-raised, Brooklyn-based band—which consists of vocalist Matt Berninger plus two pairs of brothers: Aaron Dessner (guitar, bass, piano) and Bryce Dessner (guitar), and Scott Devendorf (bass, guitar) and Bryan Devendorf (drums)—has landed on every “best of” list in print. Its half dozen albums receive critical praise surpassed only by the adoration of its devoted audience. Rolling Stone declares, “The National have always been fueled by a mix of big-time artistic ambitions and deep-rooted family values.” Who better to kick off MASS MoCA’s summer concert series?

The National is a co-presentation with Higher Ground Presents.

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EXHIBITIONS

Saturday, February 13, 4:30 – 6pm FREE FOR MEMBERS | $7 NOT-YET-MEMBERS

RSVP to rwehry@massmoca.org or 413.664.4481 x8157

For five decades anthropologist-turned-artist Richard Nonas has been reimagining landscape and architecture all over the world using a vocabulary of simple, repeated forms made from wood, granite, and steel. With his ambitious new project for Building 5, this influential post-minimalist celebrates and transforms our signature space.

This exhibition is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council and Francis Greenburger and Isabelle Autones.

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Alex Da Corte, Delirium 1 (installation view), 2014. David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen. photo courtesy the artist.

Members’ Opening Reception

Richard Nonas, 2014, installation at Art Basel Unlimited photo courtesy of Fergus McCaffrey Gallery

RICHARD NONAS

EXHIBITIONS

ALEX DA CORTE

Members’ Opening Reception

FREE ROSES

Neo-pop artist Alex Da Corte takes over our secondfloor galleries with carpet, tile, paint, and neon.

Part suburban living room, part strip club—this sumptuous backdrop frames the artist’s colorful mash-ups of consumer objects, electrifying videos, and a new sculptural ensemble inspired by Arthur Rimbaud’s poem, “A Season in Hell.” The show explores themes of love, family, death, and sex.

Saturday, April 16, 5 – 6:30pm FREE FOR MEMBERS | $7 NOT-YET-MEMBERS

RSVP to rwehry@massmoca.org or 413.664.4481 x8157

This exhibition is supported by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Luxembourg & Dayan, and ArtNet.

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BEETLE IN THE LEAVES

For her first solo exhibition in a U.S. museum, Sarah Crowner presents a range of her colorful, patterned works—including sewn paintings, benches, and a monumental tile mural—that mine the legacy of abstraction in both the fine and applied arts. The show’s centerpiece, a room within a room tiled by the artist, functions as a stage. Visitors share the spotlight with Crowner’s large paintings.

Saturday, April 16, 5 – 6:30pm FREE FOR MEMBERS | $7 NOT-YET-MEMBERS

RSVP to rwehry@massmoca.org or 413.664.4481 x8157

Francesco Clemente, Pepper Tent, 2014 photo: David Dashiell

This exhibition is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

THE SPACE BETWEEN

Members’ Opening Reception

Saturday, April 16, 5 – 6:30pm FREE FOR MEMBERS | $7 NOT-YET-MEMBERS

RSVP to rwehry@massmoca.org or 413.664.4481 x8157

What do we notice about a place while we’re “just passing through?” With sound, text, and sculpture, seven artists stage art in transitional spaces on, around, and outside the museum campus. Both playful and contemplative, these subtle interventions offer meditations on memory, history, and possibility, and together chart a new map of the in-between.

This exhibition is made possible by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in support of MASS MoCA and the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art.

FR ANCESCO CLEMENTE ENCAMPMENT

Barbara Takenaga, Nebraska, 2014 image courtesy the artist

Members’ Opening Reception

Sarah Crowner, Interiores, 2014, photo courtesy the artist and Casey Kaplan, New York

SAR AH CROWNER

Agustina Woodgate, Hopscotch, 2010-ongoing. photo courtesy the artist

EXHIBITIONS

BARBAR A TAKENAGA NEBRASKA

Through January 3

This exhibition is supported by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and Blain|Southern Gallery.

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EXHIBITIONS Clifford Ross, Mountain Redux I, 2008, image courtesy Clifford Ross Studio

CLIFFORD ROSS LANDSCAPE SEEN & IMAGINED Through April 17

Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing #766, 1994, photo: Kevin Kennefick

EXHIBITIONS

This exhibition is supported by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Tom & Andi Bernstein, Sue & Ed Wachenheim, Robert Rosenkranz & Alexandra Munroe, Michael & Sandra Hecht, and The Ronald and Jo Carole Lauder Foundation.

SOL LEWITT

A WALL DRAWING RETROSPECTIVE

This exhibition is a collaboration of MASS MoCA, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Williams College Museum of Art.

Through April 17

This exhibition is supported by a grant from the Artist’s Resource Trust with additional funding provided by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

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ARTISTS’ CHOICE AN EXPANDED FIELD OF PHOTOGRAPHY Through April 24

This exhibition is supported by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

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Miranda Lichtenstein, High Rise, 2013, image courtesy of the artist and Elizabeth Dee, New York

GALLERY 4.1.1

Liz Deschenes, Gallery 4.1.1, installation view, 2015 photo: David Dashiell

LIZ DESCHENES

Franz West, Les Pommes d’Adam,installation view, 2007, photo: Arthur Evans

On view seasonally, re-opens April 30

ANSELM KIEFER FRANZ WEST LES POMMES D’ADAM

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KIDSPACE

EDUCATION

Exhibitions

image courtesy of the artist

Through May 30

Education at MASS MoCA is made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Additional support is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, Milton and Dorothy Sarnoff Raymond Foundation in memory of Sandy and Lynn Laitman; the Amelia Peabody Foundation; Holly Swett; the Feigenbaum Foundation; John Hancock; the Massachusetts Cultural Council; the C & P Buttenwieser Foundation; TD Charitable Foundation, the Berkshire Bank Foundation – Legacy Region; Price Chopper’s Golub Foundation; the Gateway Fund and the William and Margery Barrett Fund of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation; and an anonymous donor.

photo: Jane Burns

April 29 – May 1 Opening Reception: Friday, April 29, 7pm Celebrate creativity at the 6th annual Teen Invitational featuring the works of students and teachers from seven Northern Berkshire County high schools. On view during regular public hours throughout the weekend.

Teen programs are sponsored in part by the Amelia Peabody Foundation, The Feigenbaum Foundation, John Hancock, The Berkshire Bank Foundation, Price Chopper’s Golub Foundation, and an anonymous donor.

ART NINJAS CAMPS

photo: Caleb Blansett

Jamie Diamond, I Promise to be a Good Mother, 2011

WALK IN MY SHOES

TEEN INVITATIONAL

August 8 – September 2 $275 MEMBERS | $300 NOT-YET-MEMBERS EARLY REGISTRATION FOR MEMBERS THROUGH JANUARY 31

Ran Hwang, Untethered, 2015 photo: Kaelan Burkett

RAN HWANG UNTETHERED

Dana Hoey, Still from Fighters (2014-15) Courtesy of the artist and Petzel Gallery, New York photo: Pete Mauney

Art Ninjas embark on daily missions filled with art, adventure, and intrigue. Space is limited and goes quickly. Members register now; public registration begins February 1. massmoca.org/camp

KICKBOXING AND CELL PHONE PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP WITH ARTIST DANA HOEY

Monday, February 15, 1pm UNDER 18 FREE | $10 MEMBERS $15 NOT-YET-MEMBERS

Learn simple fight movements and combinations from expert fighters Joe Falanga and Alex Stagi, while exhibiting photographer Dana Hoey demonstrates how cell phones can capture the action.

Ages 11 and up.

This exhibition is supported by the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

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ALL OVER THE PLACE!

Exhibitions photo: Amy Luke

MEMBERS GET MORE MASS MoCA Membership packages starting at $65 massmoca.org/members | 413.664.4481 x8157

photo: Emily Edwards

STUDIOS AT MASS MoCA

MAJOR SEASON SUPPORT— THANK YOU! Adams Plumbing and Heating, Inc. George Ahl Allen & Company Amelia Peabody Foundation Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation Anonymous Artist’s Resource Trust ArtNet Atelier 4, Inc. Anne and Gregory Avis Jeffrey and Marie Baker Daniel Bakst and Beth McGlinchey Barbara Lee Family Foundation Daniel and Samantha Becker Alan and Leslie Beller Joseph Beninati Joan Benjamin and Laurence Cherkis Gretchen and John Berggruen Berkshire Bank Berkshire Gas Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Ellen J. Bernstein Joyce Bernstein and Lawrence Rosenthal Tom and Andi Bernstein Elizabeth Beshel Robinson and Samuel Robinson Blue Q Blum & Poe The Boston Foundation

Duncan and Susan Brown Paul and Katie Buttenwieser Dustin Campbell and Moira Hennessey Elliot and Karin Cattarulla Michele and G. Donald Chandler III Nicole Chavas and Jack Eskin Citi Citizens Bank Clifford Ross Stacy and Eric Cochran Comcast Spotlight Connecticut Dept. of Economic and Community Development Paula Cooper and Jack Macrae Bobbie Crosby Jay Crosby D’Addario Jeffrey Daignault DC Moore Gallery Catharine B. Deely Deering Banjo Company Steven and Roberta Denning John DeRosa Foster and Penelope Devereux Peter Dey and Phyllis Ortved Tyler and Rose Dickson Andrew Dietderich and Carina Liebknecht John Draghi Eastman Guitars Jane Coats Eckert E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation

Bridget and Donald Fawcett Feigenbaum Foundation Nancy Fitzpatrick and Lincoln Russell Mimi and David Forer Stuart and Maxine Frankel Matt Fremont-Smith Allan and Judy Fulkerson Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund Timur Galen and Linda Genereux John L. Gardiner Erin Gerrity Girardi Distributors Robert L. Gold Susan W. Gold James and Penny Gorman Francis Greenburger and Isabelle Autones Donald Gummer and Meryl Streep Agnes Gund Graham and Ann Gund Andrew and Barbara Gundlach Cai Guo-Qiang Carmela and Paul Haklisch Andrew and Christine Hall Hall Art Foundation Scott and Ellen Hand Stephen Hannock Michael and Sandra Hecht Frances Hellman and Warren Breslau Kurt and Charlotte Hemr continued

The Studios at MASS MoCA is a residency program for working artists offered through the museum’s Assets for Artists initiative. Applications accepted through January 15.

Extraordinary resources for exceptional artists

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ALL OVER THE PLACE!

MAJOR SEASON SUPPORT— THANK YOU! Highland Street Foundation Holiday Inn Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Orion and Lisa Howard James and Joan Hunter Institute of Museum and Library Services John and Maureen Jerome John Hancock Zackary Kamen Andrew Kostyo Werner and Sarah-Ann Kramarsky Lizbeth and George Krupp Ned and Ann Lamont The Ronald and Jo Carole Lauder Foundation Raymond Learsy Mark and Taryn Leavitt Sue Lehmann and Ted Dreyfus Gary Leopold Carol LeWitt Dorothy Lichtenstein Joyce Linde Robert Lipp and Martha Berman John and Paula Mahoney Massachusetts Cultural Council Massachusetts Growth Capital Corporation Massachusetts Institute of Technology Aileen McKenna Henry McNeil Metro Pictures

Milton and Dorothy Sarnoff Raymond Foundation Kali Moody and Mitchell Baker Bridget Moore, DC Moore Gallery Hans and Kate Morris Eric Moskowitz and Hannah Swartz Charles Mott MountainOne Financial Partners National Endowment for the Arts Diana Nelson and John Atwater New England Foundation for the Arts Caroline Niemczyk Susan Paine Bo and Katherine Peabody Alvin and Carole Pearl The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Hilary and Frank Lyon Polk III Adelaide Polsinelli The Porches Inn at MASS MoCA Mary Ann and Bruno Quinson Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Michael Rietbrock and Sharon Pearson Robert Wilson Charitable Trust Robert Rosenkranz and Alexandra Munroe Elizabeth Beshel Robinson and Samuel Robinson Clifford Ross Pamela and William Royall, Jr.

VISIT Sakana Foundation Michael and Joan Salke Anders and Yukiko Schroeder Dan Schulman and Jennie Kassanoff Jeff Shafer Jack Shainman Galleries Robert and Carol Stegeman Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Stop & Shop Surdna Foundation Holly Swett Jay and Rachel Tarses James Tashjian The Thompson Family Foundation Charlie and Kimberly Thurston Nilani Trent US Department of Agriculture Edgar Wachenheim Jack and Susy Wadsworth Tom Walton Mariët Westermann and Charles Pardoe Williams College Elisabeth Roche Wilmers and Robert Wilmers Mary Windle Denise Zarlengo Michael and Nina Zilkha David Zylberberg and Elizabeth Wol

BOX OFFICE & INFORMATION 413.662.2111 / massmoca.org 1040 MASS MoCA Way North Adams, MA 01247

ACCESSIBILITY MASS MoCA is handicapped-accessible.

Ask about wheelchairs and event listening devices.

HOURS Fall, Winter, Spring (Sept 9 – June 20) 11am to 5pm, closed Tuesdays (open Tuesdays, February 16 and April 19

PLAN YOUR VISIT We hope you’ll visit downtown North Adams; check out Mt. Greylock (our winter playground), and dip into neighboring Adams and Williamstown while you’re in the Berkshires.

ADMISSION Adults $18 Seniors/Veterans $16 Students w/ID $12 Kids (6 – 16) $8

Kids 5 and younger and museum members always visit for free.

Admission to Kidspace is always free.

The ArtBar is open weekends and during school breaks.

Williams College and MCLA students are members and receive free admission with valid ID. 3 Museum Combo Ticket (MASS MoCA, the Clark, Williams College Museum of Art) $32 admission and save 20% at WCMA store Norman Rockwell Combo Ticket (MASS MoCA, Norman Rockwell Museum) $30 PUBLIC TOURS (free with admission) Through June 20 Daily 2pm museum highlights Saturday 12pm Sol LeWitt Sunday 12pm Sol LeWitt or Anselm Kiefer (seasonally) Detailed schedule at massmoca.org/visit LIVE EVENTS Reserve tickets for all performances even if they are free. All performances and artists are subject to change, and often sell out. No refunds or exchanges. All events are rain or shine.

explorenorthadams.com berkshires.org destinationwilliamstown.org AMENITIES Hardware: The MASS MoCA Store 413.664.4481 x8140 | massmocashopping.org MASS MoCA by Design 413.652.2143 | 50 Spring Street, Williamstown Lickety Split Café 413.346.4560 | licketysplitatmassmoca.com Gramercy Bistro 413.663.5300 | gramercybistro.com 1315 MASS MoCA Way Ferrin Contemporary | ferrincontemporary.com Cynthia Reeves | cynthia-reeves.com Bright Ideas Brewing brightideasbrewing.com Tunnel City Coffee shop.tunnelcitycoffee.com Subway 413.664.8020 | 1 Main Street, North Adams SMILE! We often document visitors in our galleries during events. If you do not wish to be included in images we publish, please alert the box office.

TAKE PART We hope you’ll share your images too! #massmoca @massmoca

BAR A full bar service is available at most events.

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On the cover: Richard Nonas at work in his studio. Join us for his Building 5 exhibition, opening February 13.

photo: Jan Meissner

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