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Don’t miss 🔥FIREBIRD 🔥at MASS MoCA, with viewings all day on Free Day (Jan 27) through Feb 3. Inspired by composer Igor Stravinsky’s 1919 “Firebird Suite,” Touki Delphine’s FIREBIRD is a rule-breaking concert program and an extraterrestrial installation in one — including an “orchestra” concepted entirely of light. In the culmination of Touki Delphine’s MASS MoCA residency over 600 recycled car taillights, sourced locally in the Berkshires, will illuminate the dance of the firebird in a thoroughly hypnotic event that is hard to describe. Learn more on our site and plan your visit today.
Don’t miss 🔥FIREBIRD 🔥at MASS MoCA, with viewings all day on Free Day (Jan 27) through Feb 3. Inspired by composer Igor Stravinsky’s 1919 “Firebird Suite,” Touki Delphine’s FIREBIRD is a rule-breaking concert program and an extraterrestrial installation in one — including an “orchestra” concepted entirely of light. In the culmination of Touki Delphine’s MASS MoCA residency over 600 recycled car taillights, sourced locally in the Berkshires, will illuminate the dance of the firebird in a thoroughly hypnotic event that is hard to describe. Learn more on our site and plan your visit today.
A new year, a new Open Studios cohort! Join us this time tomorrow (Thursday, January 25, 5–7pm) in Buildings 13 & 34 for our first @assets4artists Open Studios of the year. These ongoing, free events are an opportunity to get to know the artists at work in the Studios at MASS MoCA, and our favorite way to spend a Thursday happy hour. Conversation and snacks are on us!
Pictured here is current artist-in-residence Alida Rodrigues (@alidarodrigues_studio), a London-based visual artist. During her residency, Alida has been learning to weave under the guidance of local weaver Megan Karlen (@mkarlenart).
"Starting as a beginner, I find myself gradually developing my skills while working alongside a loom, a powerful piece of machinery in itself. My journey doesn`t have a defined end goal; rather it`s focused on forming a relationship with the materials and the machine, treating each piece as an experiment rather than a final artwork. Throughout this process, I`ve engaged in an ongoing dialogue with my body, experiencing the rhythmic movements involved with the loom, yarn, and thread."
Come meet Alida and the rest of our artists-in-residence and see what they`ve been working on. #massmoca
A new year, a new Open Studios cohort! Join us this time tomorrow (Thursday, January 25, 5–7pm) in Buildings 13 & 34 for our first @assets4artists Open Studios of the year. These ongoing, free events are an opportunity to get to know the artists at work in the Studios at MASS MoCA, and our favorite way to spend a Thursday happy hour. Conversation and snacks are on us!
Pictured here is current artist-in-residence Alida Rodrigues (@alidarodrigues_studio), a London-based visual artist. During her residency, Alida has been learning to weave under the guidance of local weaver Megan Karlen (@mkarlenart).
"Starting as a beginner, I find myself gradually developing my skills while working alongside a loom, a powerful piece of machinery in itself. My journey doesn`t have a defined end goal; rather it`s focused on forming a relationship with the materials and the machine, treating each piece as an experiment rather than a final artwork. Throughout this process, I`ve engaged in an ongoing dialogue with my body, experiencing the rhythmic movements involved with the loom, yarn, and thread."
Come meet Alida and the rest of our artists-in-residence and see what they`ve been working on. #massmoca
🚨Did you see the latest from our winter/spring lineup? On May 11, Los Angeles psych-soul four-piece Chicano Batman will be joined by multidisciplinary visual artist, art critic and curator Lido Pimienta — who opens the night’s performance — as part of their upcoming tour. Get your tix at the link in our bio! #massmoca
🚨Did you see the latest from our winter/spring lineup? On May 11, Los Angeles psych-soul four-piece Chicano Batman will be joined by multidisciplinary visual artist, art critic and curator Lido Pimienta — who opens the night’s performance — as part of their upcoming tour. Get your tix at the link in our bio! #massmoca
In case you haven`t checked the thermostat in a while — it`s been COLD out there! ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ Good thing as one of the largest contemporary art museums in the US, we`ve got 250,000 square feet of open gallery space to warm up your mind and body, and not one but TWO cafés to curl up at while you`re here ☕. See what`s on view (like kelli rae adams: Forever in Your Debt, pic #2) on our website — or just come on by for your après-ski (we`re looking at you, @JiminyPeak + @berkshire.east 🎿 ). #ComeInFromTheColdDay
In case you haven`t checked the thermostat in a while — it`s been COLD out there! ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ Good thing as one of the largest contemporary art museums in the US, we`ve got 250,000 square feet of open gallery space to warm up your mind and body, and not one but TWO cafés to curl up at while you`re here ☕. See what`s on view (like kelli rae adams: Forever in Your Debt, pic #2) on our website — or just come on by for your après-ski (we`re looking at you, @JiminyPeak + @berkshire.east 🎿 ). #ComeInFromTheColdDay
📌 Eluding Capture: Three Artists from Central Asia opens at MASS MoCA in two weeks on February 3, 2024! Featuring the work of Saodat Ismailova, Alexander Ugay, and Gulnur Mukazhanova, Eluding Capture presents the work of three artists who explore the conditions of belonging in Central Asia through photography, textile, film, and video. Typically defined as modern-day Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan, Central Asia has been ruled by Indigenous Khanates, the Russian Empire, and the Soviet Union at different points in time. The region’s rich philosophical, literary, and artistic traditions provide the basis for contemporary interventions that attend to its history and speculate on its future.
Together, the artists in this exhibition interrogate what it means to dwell in and on the region. Their works seek pictorial, material, and metaphysical agency from colonial legacies, a search for self-definition that acknowledges the incoherency of the past. Learn more and plan your visit at the link in our bio.
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Saodat Ismailova, 18,000 Worlds, 2023; Alexander Ugay, Obscuraton #10 (2022); Gulnur Mukazhanova, Portrait- Reflections (on the history of my homeland, Qandy Qantar 2022), 2023
📌 Eluding Capture: Three Artists from Central Asia opens at MASS MoCA in two weeks on February 3, 2024! Featuring the work of Saodat Ismailova, Alexander Ugay, and Gulnur Mukazhanova, Eluding Capture presents the work of three artists who explore the conditions of belonging in Central Asia through photography, textile, film, and video. Typically defined as modern-day Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan, Central Asia has been ruled by Indigenous Khanates, the Russian Empire, and the Soviet Union at different points in time. The region’s rich philosophical, literary, and artistic traditions provide the basis for contemporary interventions that attend to its history and speculate on its future.
Together, the artists in this exhibition interrogate what it means to dwell in and on the region. Their works seek pictorial, material, and metaphysical agency from colonial legacies, a search for self-definition that acknowledges the incoherency of the past. Learn more and plan your visit at the link in our bio.
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Saodat Ismailova, 18,000 Worlds, 2023; Alexander Ugay, Obscuraton #10 (2022); Gulnur Mukazhanova, Portrait- Reflections (on the history of my homeland, Qandy Qantar 2022), 2023
Inspired by composer Igor #Stravinsky’s 1919 “Firebird Suite,” @ToukiDelphine will present FIREBIRD — a rule-breaking concert program that presents over 500 recycled car taillights sourced locally in the Berkshires that will illuminate the dance of the firebird in the culmination of their MASS MoCA residency — next weekend. Catch viewings on Free Day (Jan 27) and through the following week, free with gallery admission. Learn more about this unique work at the link in our bio.
Upon first meeting the collective, "their goal of constructing several larger-than-life panels out of the taillights, rewiring them, and presenting the glowing creation to an audience, seemed a bit half baked," described Addison MacDonald, MASS MoCA`s General Manager, Performing Arts + Film. "While they prepped for their journey from Amsterdam to North Adams, we scoured nearby salvage and junkyards for their materials — often I couldn`t find anyone there or was politely offered 2 or 3.
"When Chris Doyle and his team arrived in the States, they quickly set off to find the remaining tail lights. They must have charmed every salvage yard owner in northern New England...Starting first in a rented garage in the woods, and then into MASS MoCA`s production workshop, they began to build. This week we are frantically moving these panels into the Hunter Center. Together, our teams are figuring out how to hang these panels, light them, and incorporate music before we open the doors to the public on Free Day — in projects like this, the journey of creating art is just as celebrated as presenting it." #tbt #massmoca #northadamsma
📸: Via the artist
Inspired by composer Igor #Stravinsky’s 1919 “Firebird Suite,” @ToukiDelphine will present FIREBIRD — a rule-breaking concert program that presents over 500 recycled car taillights sourced locally in the Berkshires that will illuminate the dance of the firebird in the culmination of their MASS MoCA residency — next weekend. Catch viewings on Free Day (Jan 27) and through the following week, free with gallery admission. Learn more about this unique work at the link in our bio.
Upon first meeting the collective, "their goal of constructing several larger-than-life panels out of the taillights, rewiring them, and presenting the glowing creation to an audience, seemed a bit half baked," described Addison MacDonald, MASS MoCA`s General Manager, Performing Arts + Film. "While they prepped for their journey from Amsterdam to North Adams, we scoured nearby salvage and junkyards for their materials — often I couldn`t find anyone there or was politely offered 2 or 3.
"When Chris Doyle and his team arrived in the States, they quickly set off to find the remaining tail lights. They must have charmed every salvage yard owner in northern New England...Starting first in a rented garage in the woods, and then into MASS MoCA`s production workshop, they began to build. This week we are frantically moving these panels into the Hunter Center. Together, our teams are figuring out how to hang these panels, light them, and incorporate music before we open the doors to the public on Free Day — in projects like this, the journey of creating art is just as celebrated as presenting it." #tbt #massmoca #northadamsma
📸: Via the artist
This Saturday, January 20, celebrate the release of Lizzie No’s new album Halfsies at an electrifying show in Club B10, with an opener from Brooklyn-based songwriter Eliza Edens.
Categorizing artists might make it easier to organize record stores and playlists, but there’s no one term that could define any artist, least of all one like Lizzie No, who "takes hold of possibility in music and beyond" (@NoDepression, who named Lizzie No their spotlight artist of the month). Don`t miss it when these amazing talents take to the #MASSMoCA stage on Saturday; tix at the link in bio. #Halfsies
(📷 : Courtesy the artists and Harrison Truong)
This Saturday, January 20, celebrate the release of Lizzie No’s new album Halfsies at an electrifying show in Club B10, with an opener from Brooklyn-based songwriter Eliza Edens.
Categorizing artists might make it easier to organize record stores and playlists, but there’s no one term that could define any artist, least of all one like Lizzie No, who "takes hold of possibility in music and beyond" (@NoDepression, who named Lizzie No their spotlight artist of the month). Don`t miss it when these amazing talents take to the #MASSMoCA stage on Saturday; tix at the link in bio. #Halfsies
(📷 : Courtesy the artists and Harrison Truong)
We can`t wait for Free Day in just a few short weeks on Saturday, January 27! Today, we`re taking a #FlashbackFriday look at last year`s celebration. Free for all who walk through our doors, MASS MoCA’s annual community event rocks the galleries with thematic museum tours, art-making in Kidspace, FIREBIRD installation viewings throughout the day, and more! Come by on January 27 and get inspired, on the house. #MASSMoCA #northadamsma #Berkshires
We can`t wait for Free Day in just a few short weeks on Saturday, January 27! Today, we`re taking a #FlashbackFriday look at last year`s celebration. Free for all who walk through our doors, MASS MoCA’s annual community event rocks the galleries with thematic museum tours, art-making in Kidspace, FIREBIRD installation viewings throughout the day, and more! Come by on January 27 and get inspired, on the house. #MASSMoCA #northadamsma #Berkshires
On January 11 during gallery hours — and on the day of each new moon, believed by many to be a time of rebirth, during Like Magic — visitors to Grace Clark’s In a new light (Healing Dirt) are invited to enter the chapel-like room and apply charcoal earth to parts of their body in need of healing, harnessing the magic of belief in change. Pre-registration is not required; this experience is free with gallery admission to those who feel called to participate each month. Visit our website for more information and future activation dates 🌑
Installation view of Grace Clark, In a new light (Healing Dirt), 2021/2023, as installed in Like Magic. Photo: Kaelan Burkett
On January 11 during gallery hours — and on the day of each new moon, believed by many to be a time of rebirth, during Like Magic — visitors to Grace Clark’s In a new light (Healing Dirt) are invited to enter the chapel-like room and apply charcoal earth to parts of their body in need of healing, harnessing the magic of belief in change. Pre-registration is not required; this experience is free with gallery admission to those who feel called to participate each month. Visit our website for more information and future activation dates 🌑
Installation view of Grace Clark, In a new light (Healing Dirt), 2021/2023, as installed in Like Magic. Photo: Kaelan Burkett
📣 A few tickets remain for this Saturday`s stand-up comedy show with @ZainabJohnson, kicking off a season of performance in #massmoca`s Club B10 (Jan 13). Hailed by @Variety as a Top 10 Comic To Watch, the stand-up comedian, actor, and writer brings her unique point of view, which was shaped growing up as one of thirteen siblings in a Muslim family, to MASS MoCA this weekend. Head to our stories for a taste of Johnson`s comedy special, Hijabs Off, and purchase your tix at the link in our bio, while they last.
📣 A few tickets remain for this Saturday`s stand-up comedy show with @ZainabJohnson, kicking off a season of performance in #massmoca`s Club B10 (Jan 13). Hailed by @Variety as a Top 10 Comic To Watch, the stand-up comedian, actor, and writer brings her unique point of view, which was shaped growing up as one of thirteen siblings in a Muslim family, to MASS MoCA this weekend. Head to our stories for a taste of Johnson`s comedy special, Hijabs Off, and purchase your tix at the link in our bio, while they last.
Just announced! In conjunction with the exhibition Like Magic, artist Johanna Hedva joins us for two not-to-be-missed programs next month. In the R&D Store (@redevstoremassmoca) on February 23, Hedva joins Curator Alexandra Foradas for a reading and discussion of their recently released Your Love is Not Good. Then on February 24, experience Johanna Hedva in concert when they debut songs from their upcoming, in-progress album, Fist. Tickets 🎟️ for both programs are on sale now via the links in stories.
All events at MASS MoCA are accessible to all audiences. Please contact accessibility@massmoca.org if you would like to inquire about accessibility needs and services. These events will include ASL interpretation.
The Research & Development Store is located on the ground floor just off of the lobby. Club B10 is located on the 3rd floor of B10 above the lobby. There is an elevator in the lobby and there are no steps required to enter the venue. Our campus is large and our parking lot is about a 5–10 minute walk to the main entrance. There are accessible, gender-neutral restrooms available on the same floor as Club B10.
Just announced! In conjunction with the exhibition Like Magic, artist Johanna Hedva joins us for two not-to-be-missed programs next month. In the R&D Store (@redevstoremassmoca) on February 23, Hedva joins Curator Alexandra Foradas for a reading and discussion of their recently released Your Love is Not Good. Then on February 24, experience Johanna Hedva in concert when they debut songs from their upcoming, in-progress album, Fist. Tickets 🎟️ for both programs are on sale now via the links in stories.
All events at MASS MoCA are accessible to all audiences. Please contact accessibility@massmoca.org if you would like to inquire about accessibility needs and services. These events will include ASL interpretation.
The Research & Development Store is located on the ground floor just off of the lobby. Club B10 is located on the 3rd floor of B10 above the lobby. There is an elevator in the lobby and there are no steps required to enter the venue. Our campus is large and our parking lot is about a 5–10 minute walk to the main entrance. There are accessible, gender-neutral restrooms available on the same floor as Club B10.
Mark your calendars: EJ Hill: Brake Run Helix is on view through February 11, 2024. The massive installation incorporates freestanding sculptures, paintings, a stage for performances, and a rideable sculptural installation inspired by the form and function of roller coasters. For Hill, roller coasters are public monuments to the possibility of attaining joy — which, as the artist notes, is “a critical component of social equity.”
To celebrate the exhibition before its close next month, join us at an After Hours event on January 13 honoring regional BIPoC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) artists, writers, and performers in the Berkshires. Hill`s celebratory work examines how those from marginalized backgrounds explore joy and play, and in that spirit, we bid it farewell with a BIPoC mixer in the exhibition’s Building 5 gallery, including dancing and activities from the diaspora. Attendees will also be able to view MASS MoCA’s newest exhibition, Like Magic, which will remain open for this MASS MoCA After Hours event.
Arrive early to visit the full museum and stay extra late by purchasing a ticket for comedian Zainab Johnson, who takes the stage at MASS MoCA’s Club B10 at 8pm, following the event. Learn more at the link in bio.
Mark your calendars: EJ Hill: Brake Run Helix is on view through February 11, 2024. The massive installation incorporates freestanding sculptures, paintings, a stage for performances, and a rideable sculptural installation inspired by the form and function of roller coasters. For Hill, roller coasters are public monuments to the possibility of attaining joy — which, as the artist notes, is “a critical component of social equity.”
To celebrate the exhibition before its close next month, join us at an After Hours event on January 13 honoring regional BIPoC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) artists, writers, and performers in the Berkshires. Hill`s celebratory work examines how those from marginalized backgrounds explore joy and play, and in that spirit, we bid it farewell with a BIPoC mixer in the exhibition’s Building 5 gallery, including dancing and activities from the diaspora. Attendees will also be able to view MASS MoCA’s newest exhibition, Like Magic, which will remain open for this MASS MoCA After Hours event.
Arrive early to visit the full museum and stay extra late by purchasing a ticket for comedian Zainab Johnson, who takes the stage at MASS MoCA’s Club B10 at 8pm, following the event. Learn more at the link in bio.
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Family Adventure in the Northern Berkshires
Baby animals and ice cream included
Not just Kidspace
Explore MASS MoCA with kids.
John Stirratt on North Adams, Wilco, and fried clams
Wilco's bassist shares a few must-dos.
A history of North Adams through food, walk, and shop
Walk through history and get a haircut.
36 hours at MASS MoCAand in the Berkshires
Three days of mountains, museums, and main streets of western Massachusetts.
Partnerships
River Street Billboard Project
Sol LeWitt A Wall Drawing Retrospective
The Hall Art Foundation
Solid Sound Festival
Clark Art Institute
FreshGrass Festival
Bang on a Can
Jacob’s Pillow
Sundance Institute
The Philadelphia Museum of Art
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
Williams College Museum of Art