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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.…