Lets Slice Open the Biggest Contemporary Art Museum in the US

Published: June 28, 2017, 8:12 a.m.

Compared to the swooping architecture of other fine-art institutions, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (aka Mass MoCA) is a hulking, big-boned anomaly. \u201cWe don\u2019t just collect art and hang it on white walls,\u201d says director Joseph Thompson. The cavernous complex displays works that couldn\u2019t fit anywhere else.