The physical representation of Wikipedia (below) brought a chuckle, and the room with the small portion of images of the Sun from Flickr (which took up an entire wall), and the small portion of images of people in front of images of the Sun (also from Flickr and also taking up a wall) made me realize just how much of our lives we share with the world (which is even more humorous when written from a blog). As a web developer, I’m sure this installation struck a special chord. The former was a great introspective on how the internet and technology has changed the way we interact with each other, share our lives’ experiences, and learn in the digital age. It’s unfair of me to overlook any of the exhibits, but for the sake of brevity (and I mean that loosely), I want to single out two of my favorites – an already passed exhibit (that I can’t find in the archives) about our digital lives, and the ongoing Sol Lewitt exhibit. This building is an exhibit in itself, and you might find yourself, as I did, wondering in bewilderment at the sheer size of the structure, and its implications as a remanent of the manufacturing backbone that the country was built on.
Working with the fact that it is America’s largest contemporary art museum, the installations aren’t confined to the formulaically cramped, room-after-room style that I think many museum amateurs (like myself) find a subconscious turn-off of the museum-going experience. I won’t pretend to be an art critic, or act like my technical understanding of art far exceeds the ‘History of Modern Art’ course I tried to take as a senior-sleeper at UNC, but to ignore the fact that this museum, more than any I’ve visited before, makes you feel the art would be to do the space a serious injustice. Housed in the sprawling old Sprague Electric Company mill complex, the museum offers hours of enjoyment as you peruse the maze-like structure, and currently showcases a multi-floor Sol Lewitt exhibit that, in my honest opinion, deserves its own post on this blog. I don’t know how one could visit North Adams, MA and overlook a trip to MASS MoCA (the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art).
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