MCLA Gallery 51 is run by the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts and it's mostly staffed by…read morestudents. It's downtown North Adams, walkable distance from MASS MoCA. The gallery presents work from a wide range of emerging and mid-career contemporary artists. All medium considered, from painting and sculptures, to mixed media, photography and video. It's a fun gallery to stop by to see some emerging cool art, that you can also buy!

PRESS: LetterPRESS as a Public Art Project is a gallery, but also a classroom for college kids and…read moreadults on letterpress printmaking! In the center of the space there is a fully operational old press (Vandercook Universal III), quite impressive. At the walls you can see a variety of artworks and exercises made with the machine. The gallery staff is always happy to show how a single sheet of paper strapped into the machine's cylinder gets printed and punched. Definitely an experience to do, after visiting MASS MoCA! Just few steps away, downtown North Adams.

AI suggested I come here after some research with a day off gap and it was kinda a life changing…read moreexperience for me. It is next level poshness. For I felt like the first time, art spoke to me in a way where it was interesting and I didn't feel confined to refined boundaries. Truly nouveau, some of it shiny, some of it interactive. While I didn't like all of it, I loved like 97% of it and would come back just for this but maybe with a concert thrown in too. I couldn't take pics but there was an exhibit you had to reserve and one was an all illuminated white world as if I was in some weird imaginary futuristic TV show with expensive production. To complement the light show was a dark show that I didn't care for and that one was a lot more popular apparently. I am probably the only one who went to the spaceship on this particular Wednesday, which was at the boiler house that not everyone realizes you can look at , no AC with 90ish degrees weather, and 2 flights of older industrial metal stairs lol. Not for the super fragile physically. I could not recognize any of the nouveau artists but I could understand why they were on display in all their visual unspoken statements and documentation. They were certainly artists of a very nature I could get used to and eventually groove to, in a nerdy sorta avant garde way that is, dare I say, a modern nod to Andy Warhol. It's not only a museum for modern patrons, but also the groundwork that has propelled North Adams to the inclusive community it has become. The art and the nice atmosphere to live in make for picturesque western Massachusetts expensive to live in and some surprising food variety for the size of the communities. There was also a tea experience this day where you did a calming practice and expressed an emotion thought anonymously via red leaves dropped on a box and a red ball was dropped in for a tree sculpture. I overheard the staff from there toward the end of the day it was attended so so. I think because you had to go all the way to the end of the building to experience it, maybe not everyone wanted to walk that far. Mass Moca truly is "Mass-I've".

Probably the most interesting art museum in Mass. If you're in the Boston area, it is a bit of a…read moredrive--we turned it into a weekend getaway, and it was worth it. The museum is massive, with tons of exhibits. You'll find a mix of contemporary art, immersive installations, plus regular live performances. We spent hours exploring/wandering. Some exhibits lean abstract or experimental, so it helps to go in with an open mind, but that's part of the appeal. Overall, it's a must-visit, and I hope to come back to catch their dusk/dawn exhibit, which seems to be a staple.

Lovely collection of locally made crafts - pottery, clothing, jewelry, etc. And downstairs is Beth…read morePhelps' yarn store. Support local craftspeople!

A very nice new store in the area where local artisans have all sorts of work displayed and for…read moresale. There are so many nice things here, from jewelry to quilts, wonderful photos, and folk art. Definately worth the stop and reasonably priced!

Excellent Renoir collection. Enjoyed permanent collection as well as special exhibit…read more Dont skip the smaller paintings; theyre fantastic.

Great art museum. Permanent collection of European and American works wonderful. The special…read moreexhibition was very good. Spent an hour easily here. Will go back.