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MASS MoCA Installation Marks Centennial of Passenger Pigeon Extinction

(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Eclipse, a site-specific installation at MASS MoCA on view beginning Saturday, August 9, 2014, evolved from a series of conversations between New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert and artist duo Sayler/Morris (Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris). The exhibition examines species extinction through the passenger pigeon, whose once-massive population disappeared 100 years ago.…

New Yorker Writer Elizabeth Kolbert to Lecture on Climate Change at MCLA

(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert, who lives in Williamstown, Mass., will present “Field Notes from Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change”, at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA), the annual Elizabeth and Lawrence Vadnais Environmental Issues Lecture, on Wednesday, April 4, 2012, at 7 p.m. in Murdock Hall, room 218. The…