“The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art is a sprawling complex of old brick mill buildings given new life while retaining a sense of history: Layers of paint, for instance, were deliberately left intact as a visual echo of the past.
For this year’s big show at MASS MoCA, ”Yankee Remix,” nine artists browsed though the archives and storage of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, borrowed a wide array of artifacts, and wove these fragments of history into new installations. It’s another case of reviving the past, drawing it into the present.” Boston Globe
I was at MassMoCA last weekend and was not nearly as impressed by this exhibit as the reviewer. However, Robert Wilson’s overwhlmingly powerful, magical, disturbing reconceptualization of the Stations of the Cross needs to be seen.
And here’s another renovated factory space serving up outsized art for the Northeast. Boston Globe
