The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art--known as Mass MOCA--sprawls across 11 acres of previously abandoned brick factory buildings that are--themselves--works of art. In fact, by the time you leave the place, your awareness of abstraction is so heightened that the streetlights of North Adams are suddenly entertaining (and much less upsetting that some stuff you just paid to see). Here a few students notice that five sugar maples are growing upside-down outside the entrance.
After $44.85 worth of sandwiches it's on to the Williams College Museum of Art which offers awe-ispiring Assyrian reliefs from the temple of Ashurnasirpal II (500 B.C.) as well as some newer stuff described by an agreeable docent as "kinky". Back at the ranch, we concentrated on fun activities including Twister,
...and Spit...
Tomorrow we're off to the Fogg and Peobody in Cambridge.
