Mass MOCA in North Adams, MA, has become one of the world’s premier centers for making and showing some of most provocative art of our time.
Since opening in 1999, the contemporary museum has had an annual attendance of 120,000.
It ranks among the most visited institutions in the United States dedicated to new and large scale works of art.
More than 80 major new works of art and more than 50 performances have been created through creative and rehearsal residencies in North Adams, making MASS MoCA perhaps the most fertile site in the country for new art.
MoCA thrives on making and presenting work that is fresh, surprising, and emotionally challenging.
Focusing on large-scale and complex installations that are impossible to realize in conventional museums, their broad, soaring galleries with 110,000 square feet of open, flexible space and its robust industrial character have proven both inspiring and empowering to artists and visitors.
One of this year’s most anticipated exhibitions is The Wandering Veil by Izhar Patkin.
The Israeli-born, New York-based artist Izhar Patkin takes over the museum’s largest gallery. Grand, labyrinthine yet also surprisingly intimate, the exhibition is rich with personal narrative, political metaphor, and myth. It highlights the many formal innovations Patkin has pioneered over his 30-year career.
Kashmiri-American Poet Agha Shahid Ali wrote “The Veiled Suite” specifically for his collaboration with Izhar Patkin. Co-organized by MASS MoCA, The Wandering Veil has traveled to Western Massachusetts from the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the Tefen Open Museum in Israel, where it premiered last year.
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Izhar Patkin: The Wandering Veil
On view through September 1, 2014
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 18, 2014, 3-5pm
Free for members / $7 not-yet-members
RSVP needed email rwehry@massmoca.org
Read a profile of Izhar Patkin at the NYT