Exhibitions at the MASS MoCA

The best of James Turrell’s Ganzfelds

With an art career that began in the 1960s, James Turrell is a common name in art circles for his extensive works. He has an obvious fascination with light that is projected in the way he materialized the concept of light. The general style of Turrell is a combination of two grand ideas; even non-traditional […]

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Nick Cave’s Soundsuits – What you should know

Performances, Sculptures / 9 minutes of reading

Nick Cave is an American fabric sculptor, performance artist, and dancer. He was born on February 4, 1959, in Fulton, Missouri. Currently, Cave lives in Chicago, Illinois, where he works at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as the director of the graduate fashion program. Nick Cave’s work is inspired by African art

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This was Nick Cave’s ambitious exhibition Until

Installations / 3 minutes of reading

According to 2017 police records, 900 incidents of gun violence have taken place from the start of the year. For many people, this is just news that seems normal and out there. For artist Nick Cave, it is an issue of deep concern, and the best way to embrace those who go through it every

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This was Cai Guo-Qiang’s impressive installation Inopportune at the Guggenheim

Installations / 3 minutes of reading

Cai Guo-Qiang has been making art since 1985. However, the installation piece that he is perhaps most well known for, or at least helped to propel him to global fame, was his brief but impressive exploding rainbow of fireworks over the East River in 2002. This piece, which was created to commemorate MoMA’s opening in

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What is Xu Bing’s gigantic Phoenix project?

Sculptures / 4 minutes of reading

Xu Bing is an internationally celebrated Chinese artist. He works in a couple of disciplines and materials but the most common is ink painting, printmaking, and calligraphy. Xu has worked with pigs and silkworms. Though, one of his well-known installations is a gigantic flying dragon titled Phoenix. How was Phoenix created? The installation features two

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Dave Cole’s Knitting Machine is producing a gigantic American flag

Installations / 2 minutes of reading

In 2005, MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) presented a monumental and uniquely American sculptural installation by Providence-based sculptor Dave Cole. For Cole’s industrial-sized project The Knitting Machine, he used two excavators and replaced their shovels with telephone poles, fitting them with massive 6 meters (20 ft.) knitting needles. This giant machine produced an

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