Vision Quest: The Berkshire Museum Will Stop at Nothing to Sell Its Art, Including a Masterpiece by Norman Rockwell
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Rethinking the Town Hall: Nick Cave on ‘Until,’ His Massive MASS MoCA Installation
This year alone, Chicago has suffered more than 900 incidents of gun violence, the artist Nick Cave told me in a recent interview. “We read about what’s going on in these communities, but…
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Coming Up Roses: Alex Da Corte at MASS MoCA
Alex Da Corte adapts his work to the environments where he exhibits it, developing total installations that respond to the spirit and space of the venue. For “Free Roses,” his first museum survey, the…
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Thomas Krens Is Planning Another Contemporary Art Museum for North Adams, Massachusetts
Yesterday, Thomas Krens, who previously directed the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and planned MASS MoCA, proposed a 160,000-square-foot contemporary-art museum in North Adams, Massachusetts, t…
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Multiple Personalities: Leonard Nimoy on His ‘Secret Selves’ Photographs in 2010
Though known for playing Spock on the sci-fi TV show Star Trek, Leonard Nimoy, who died at age 83 on February 27, also had one foot in the art world. He studied with conceptual photographer…
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Leonard Nimoy, Actor, Artist, Collector, and Patron, Dies at 83
Leonard Nimoy, the actor who portrayed the beloved Spock character on the original Star Trek series, died on Friday at the age of 83 in his home in Los Angeles. Though his 4-year tenure on…
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Whistler: The Original Art Star
A century before Warhol, Whistler treated his own persona as a work of art. In the Peacock Room, he created an installation that expressed his bitterness about the ties between art and money.
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MASS MOCA Doubles Size, Hosts Projects by Turrell, Holzer, Laurie Anderson
When you think of MASS MoCA, the giant contemporary art museum in a former mill complex in North Adams, Mass., the last thought to come to mind is probably "not enough space." The museum currently c…
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Rendering the Veil: Izhar Patkin at MASS MoCA
It took 10 years to develop the unique printer used to create the exquisitely rendered veils at the core of Israeli-born artist Izhar Patkin's survey "The Wandering Veil," on view at MASS MoCA…
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Spencer Finch’s Art Makes Light Speak Volumes
From the 9/11 Memorial Museum to Monet's garden, Spencer Finch records the atmospheric light and weather patterns of psychologically charged places and remakes those conditions using TV sets…
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