![]() ![]() There is always an evocative, must-see installation in Building 5’s gigantic two-story space - and snapping Instagram photos with Sol LeWitt’s bold, geometric wall drawings is practically mandatory. Free, beautifully designed exhibit guides available at the information desk will help you determine which artists’ works appeal to you, and you can take the guides home to read later for better understanding of the creations you’ve viewed. Wear sneakers, move fast, and allow your senses to be overwhelmed by the variety and size of the art on exhibit in this mazelike museum. Laurie Anderson artwork at Mass MoCA Photo Credit : Kim Knox Beckius Exploring Mass MoCA in a Few Hours ![]() ![]() Singer Drake is such a fan, the music video for “Hotline Bling” was inspired by Turrell’s art. ![]() Now that Building 6 completes the 25-year master plan that architects drew up for the site, Mass MoCA has gallery space for long-term partnerships with monumental artists like James Turrell, a visionary manipulator of light and space. There’s a vitality here that is rare in the museum world, a sense that this nearly 20-year-old museum is still in startup mode. If floor reinforcement is required to support a 15-ton Louise Bourgeois sculpture, well, this can-do museum is in the business of figuring out such logistics. Every 10 months or so, fresh art takes up residence in the museum’s enormous halls. One of the most distinctive things about Mass MoCA is that it owns no permanent collection. Mass MoCA Photo Credit : Kim Knox Beckius Navigating Mass MoCA’s Exhibits Expansion into Building 6 in 2017 doubled the museum’s size, ensuring there is no bigger destination on the continent for total immersion in the dynamic creations of contemporary artists. The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art - known simply now as Mass MoCA - opened in 1999. It took years of political and financial maneuvering, but from the moment North Adams mayor John Barrett III had the lightbulb idea that these funky brick buildings might somehow form a new type of art venue, a groundswell of support made the complex’s transformation inevitable. Five miles down the road, Williams College Museum of Art director Thomas Krens also had a dilemma: How to support contemporary artists whose works were too humongous to be exhibited within the confines of a traditional art museum? That’s one-third of this small city’s downtown. A 16-acre manufacturing complex’s 26 buildings - all but one built before the 20th century on a site where manufacturing had thrived since colonial times - suddenly became ghost factories when Sprague Electric Company closed in 1985. How did the largest contemporary-art museum in North America wind up in North Adams, Massachusetts? The short story is: It ingeniously solved two problems. Guide to Mass MoCA in North Adams, MA Mass MoCA Photo Credit : Kim Knox Beckius Mass MoCA History (It’s also an epic place to snap selfies.) It’s an engaging, expansive, and evolving experience that will remind you there are still-to-be-discovered creative abilities lurking inside our minds. Why visit an art museum when millions of stunning images and decades of entertainment are at your fingertips? Well, Mass MoCA is no ordinary art repository.
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