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Article: Back to the future again. (development of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA)(includes related article on David Byrne's installation piece 'Desire')
- Article from:
- Art in America
- Article date:
- October 1, 1996
- Author:
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After years of delays, MASS MoCA is now moving toward a 1998 opening date--with a radically revamped sense of audience and mission.
Knocked down repeatedly but never out, MASS MoCA--the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art--is again on its feet. Much remains to be done before the official opening in the summer of 1998, but this museum of the future has come a long way in the nine years since Thomas Krens, then director of the Williams College Museum of Art, began promoting a vision of an enormous museum of contemporary art that would be sited in an old factory complex in North Adams, Mass. [See A.i.A., July '88.]
Most importantly, large amounts of ...