17, 1990: State Division of Capital Planning and Operations withholds approval of Mass MoCA feasibility study because of uncertainty that project can attract 30 percent private funding.ĭec. Commercial development, hotel/condos, art book warehouse and high-tech museum concepts dropped.ĭec. Modified feasibility study scales back plans to a first phase of five buildings: 220,000 square feet and $46 million budget. 9, 1990: Krens resigns from Mass MoCA Cultural Commission. Museum now expected to open in summer 1993.ĭec. Barreal says North Adams will have to put up $10.7 million share of financing and cover deficit if attendance falls below projections. June 1990: Mass MoCA planning reported behind schedule. 3, 1989: Preliminary feasibility study scales down museum and commercial space by half cuts retail space from 15 to eight spots hotel concept changed to condominiums. 11, 1989: Mass MoCA warehouse ball a sellout 800 tickets sold at $50 each, with 500 turned away.Īpril 26, 1989: Mass MoCA planners reported to be rethinking strategy - using state money to build museum first, then attract developers. Sum of $725,000 allocated out of $1.7 million feasibility budget for design services.įeb. Gehry Associates and Venturi Scott Rauch. 18, 1988: Mass MoCA design team is named: Skidmore Owens & Merrill, Frank O. Joseph Thompson, Krens' colleague at the Williams College Museum of Art, is named founding director of Mass MoCA. 2, 1988: The Mass MoCA Cultural Commission approves the use of $1.7 million in state money for a feasibility study. June 26, 1988: Convention center portion of plan dropped.Īug. Krens is named chairman of the commission. May 25, 1988: Mass MoCA Cultural Commission appointed by Barrett and North Adams City Council. March 14, 1988: The Legislature issues its approval of a $35 million bond issue for the museum. ![]() 14, 1988: Krens is named director of the Guggenheim Foundation. Dukakis submits Mass MoCA as separate state funding proposal. 5, 1988: Convention Center funding bill dies in the Legislature. ![]() 5, 1987: North Adams City Council backs plans for Mass MoCA 11,000-signature local petition sent to Statehouse. The $35 million sought is half the projected cost of $72 million. May 5, 1987: North Adams and Williams College announce they will seek $35 million from the state's Civic and Convention Center program to renovate the 28-building Sprague complex into a 435,000-square-foot contemporary art museum, with a hotel, restaurant, art book warehouse and stores. Krens and Barrett look at the former Sprague site. November 1985: Williams College Museum of Art Director Thomas Krens conceives the idea for what will become Mass MoCA while visiting Germany.įebruary 1986: Krens meets with North Adams Mayor John Barrett III and proposes turning a vacant industrial building in the city into a showcase for collections of contemporary and minimalist art. In 1985, after 43 years of operation in the city, Sprague closes the Marshall Street plant. “Each day I wake up and get out of bed with a sense of purpose is a good day for me,” she said.1981: Sprague Electric is sold to the Penn Central Corp., and four years later is renamed the American Annuity Group. ![]() In terms of where you’ll see her pop up next, she mentions the women’s movement as a cause she’ll be actively supporting and highlighting in the future. The exhibition forces viewers to consider their own relationship with objects, and the memories and nostalgia they can contain.īut looking forward, Lennox says she doesn’t like to make too many long-term plans. While Lennox is too versatile and creative to be boxed into any one creative category, she’s not looking to be a “career artist” but instead uses the physical installation to address concepts of existentialism, something her famous song “Sweet Dreams Are Made of This” is also charged with exploring. She also lists her mother’s sewing machine, her father’s practice chanters, a Sharp GF 525 radio double cassette tape player and recorder and a collection of her children’s toys, all included in the exhibition, as having deep sentimental attachment. “He used to sometimes mention that he ‘didn’t have a youth,’ which still makes me feel sad to this day.” ‘I’m drawn to the flotsam and jetsam of life,’ the musician and artist explains. “I have a silver medal he was awarded as a young man, but there’s no legible description, so I don’t know exactly what it was for, but I simply haven’t been able to part with it, as it seems too precious,” she said.
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