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This rediscovered space incorporates a new series of stairs and bridges that encourage easy movement between floors and across the two sides of the building. Additional natural light filters into the core of the building through a historic lightwell that was restored during this renovation, its roof replaced with a skylight measuring 20’ wide by 140’ long.

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Building 6, a three-story post-and-beam building, is distinguished by the ample natural light that enters through the hundreds of windows lining the perimeter of the building.

Visitors will enter the new space through Building 5, the signature gallery for MASS MoCA’s large-scale installations, which will feature Nick Cave’s Until through Labor Day 2017, or through Building 8, where a light-based work by Spencer Finch has been on view since February 4. Additional artists featured include Sarah Crowner, Dawn DeDeaux and Lonnie Holley, Spencer Finch, Janice Kerbel, Sol LeWitt, Mary Lum, Richard Nonas, Optics Division/Metabolic Studio, Barbara Ernst Prey, and Joe Wardwell.īuilding 6 sits at the western perimeter of MASS MoCA’s campus, its prow-like triangular footprint shaped by the confluence of the north and south branches of the Hoosic River. The centerpiece of Building 6 is a series of changing exhibitions and long-term installations and collaborations with artists Laurie Anderson, Jenny Holzer, James Turrell, the Louise Bourgeois Trust, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and the estate of Gunnar Schonbeck. NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS- On May 28, 2017, MASS MoCA will open its newly renovated Building 6, adding 130,000 square feet of space, nearly doubling the institution’s current gallery footprint and adding new art fabrication workshops, performing artists’ support facilities, music festival amenities, and other programmatic capacities. 413.664.4481 MoCA to Open Newly Renovated Building 6 on May 28, 2017, Doubling Gallery Footprint, Adding New Services and Amenities for Performing Artists and their Audiences Long-term Installations with Laurie Anderson, Louise Bourgeois, Jenny Holzer, Gunnar Schonbeck, and James Turrell, and Exhibitions with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation

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