Sentences with phrase «museums build mass»

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(2013), convincingly linked military conflict with the history of art museums (built for economic or political ends, stormed during revolutions), and compared a Kodak camera with a Colt revolver and «mass art production» with the spread of firearms.

About Teen Programs Teen Programs at MASS MoCA expose area youth to contemporary art - making practices, build confidence and leadership abilities, provide creative avenues for self - expression, and deepen teens» connections to the museum and greater North Adams community.

Negative Pyramid (1997) and three works from his Incomplete Open Cube series (1974) illustrate in three dimensions the generative potential of LeWitt's serial approach, exemplified by the museum's sweeping installation of the artist's wall drawings — which span LeWitt's entire career, covering over an acre of wall space on three floors of a building at the very heart of MASS MoCA's campus.

MASS MoCA commissioned Lum to create a large - scale painting for the bike tunnel that will run through the ground floor of the new museum building.

The structure that makes MASS MoCA's strands of galleries a single necklace is Building 6, a former factory that not only transforms circulation but also gives the museum a new sense of wholeness and substance.

Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), The Robert W. Wilson Building, Bruner / Cott Architects (Michael Moran)

Project: Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), The Robert W. Wilson Building Architect: Bruner / Cott Architects Place: North Adams, Massachusetts

The museum was completed in three phases, with the Robert W. Wilson Building being MASS MoCA's final realization of its «museums within the museum» concept.

MASS MoCA's daylong celebration to mark the opening of Building 6 - the Robert W. Wilson Building - including welcoming remarks from museum director Joseph Thompson; a Nick Cave Soundsuit performance, Brooklyn United Marching Band and CAKE in concert on Joe's Field.

MASS MoCA opens its newly renovated Building 6 this Sunday, giving the North Adams Campus — catch this - more gallery space than any other contemporary art museum in the country.

Stephen Vitiello (b. 1964, New York City) Solo exhibitions include All Those Vanished Engines, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (2011 -(ongoing)-RRB-; A Bell For Every Minute, The High Line, NYC (2010 - 2011); More Songs About Buildings and Bells, Museum 52, New York (2011); and Stephen Vitiello, The Project, New York (2006).

In one of his most ambitious projects to date, the artist's quietly powerful sculpture will occupy and transform MASS MoCA's Building 5, the museum's signature gallery, nearly a football field in length.

The museum's history as a manufacturing plant makes MASS MoCA a particularly fitting venue for Nonas, who, since his early career — when he and his peers presented guerrilla exhibitions in alternative spaces — has often been drawn to raw industrial buildings.

Mr. Turrell, who began discussions with MASS MoCA in the late 1980s, has been able to build a museum within a museum of his ethereal light installations; it is to remain on view for 25 years.

With major solo exhibitions including «All Those Vanished Engines» at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (2011 - 2016); «A Bell For Every Minute» on The High Line, NYC (2010 - 2011); «More Songs About Buildings and Bells» at Museum 52, New York (2011); and «Stephen Vitiello» at The Project, New York (2006), the artist has also performed nationally and internationally, at locations such as the Tate Modern, London; the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival; The Kitchen, New York; and the Cartier Foundation, Paris.

Three years ago, the museum's curator Denise Markonish invited Cave to show in the notorious Building 5 at MASS MoCA, a cavernous space as long as a football field, but her invitation came with a caveat: no Soundsuits.

The Clark says museum activity is definitely up this year — boosted in part by the opening of MASS MoCA's Building 6 and Solid Sound Festival.

MASS MoCA's rambling campus in the former factory town of North Adams, Massachusetts, has been 25 years in the making, and is now entering its third phase of development, starting with the rehabilitation of Building Six, a 120,000 - square - foot space that's able to be flexibly programmed to create «Museums within the Museum.»

The third and final phase, Building Six (the Robert W. Wilson Building), is the realization of Bruner / Cott Architects» 25 - year master plan, which continues MASS MoCA's «museums within the museum» concept.

MASS MoCA — The largest contemporary art museum in the United States, housed in the 13 - acre, 27 - building former Sprague Electric Company.

It was called Building 9 and originally stored the small transistors made by Sprague Electric (the industry that occupied MASS MoCA before it was a museum).

But following its official public opening on September 20, 2015, artlovers are able to see the reason why the museum was built in the first place: to house a treasure trove of contemporary art, much of which has already permeated the minds of the masses, and still more that hasn't been appreciated as much as it should.

The Hall Art Foundation recently announced a major new building and exhibition partnership with MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) devoted to the art of Anselm Kiefer.

According to the magazine: «In the years since the 1999 opening of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (better known as MASS MoCA) in a converted complex of old industrial buildings, this small town has gradually reinvented itself as a Berkshires - Based cultural hub that is home to a smart set of galleries, bookshops, cafes, and live - workspaces for artists.