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Porches mass moca1/6/2024 ![]() ![]() I still found the halls of MASS MoCA to be transcendent and unlike anything in New York. I still found myself in the hot tub after the museum. So much has changed and yet I found myself wondering upon my return how both spaces had not aged. Now, I carry a version of it in my pocket. The photo my mom took of us laying in Ann Hamilton’s snow was on our first digital camera roll. I'm happy when she turns to me in the same hall, which currently holds a Glenn Kaino exhibition, and asks, ‘Do you remember when you hated art?’ My mom likes to tease me about this it’s part of the tradition. It took me decades to make my way back to that contemporary art high. That evening, we took turns running between the Porches Inn hot tub and pool for polar bear plunges. Ann Hamilton, corpus, 2003, on display in Building #5 at MASS MoCA from Decemto October 17, 2004. Microphones dropped down to read from a script but I was too focused on making angels and wondering how being inside changed the meaning. New sheets fell every minute or so from the ceiling. Visitors like us were encouraged to frolic in the translucent pages, throw them up, ball them if you want. The paper was part of a huge work by Ann Hamilton called Corpus that transformed the largest hall of MASS MoCA into a flurry. ![]() She flopped into our favorite double-height suite in the hotel and asked us: ‘Doesn’t it just feel like home?’ There is something about Porches that jogs my memory, one that is crystallized by our 1997 Christmas card-all of us laying in a pile of onion skin paper making snow angels. This year, my sister and I took my Mom back to the art museum. They are both mutants in their own way, but it is exactly that eclecticism that makes them so compelling. The Porches Inn is a hotel composed of row houses. ![]() MASS MoCA is a compound of decommissioned factories. Since then, it's been what my mother calls her “happy place.” Utopia is a boutique hotel in North Adams that sits across the street from MASS MoCA, the area’s pilgrimage-worthy contemporary art institution. I don’t remember the first time my family went to the Porches Inn, but it had to be sometime in the late nineties to early 2000s when we were living in Concord, Massachusetts. Directly across the street from Mass MoCA, the largest contemporary art museum in the. ![]()
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