“Sound can create a sanctuary — a space in which we can remember what it feels like to be present in our bodies and lost in our thoughts.” — Son Lux guitarist Rafiq Bhatia

On view beginning September 12, 2026, “Out Into Us (Slow Down)” is a newly commissioned video installation presented by MASS MoCA, Caviar, and Pioneer Works.

Created in collaboration with video director Alex Cook, this 17-minute video shapes the title track from Son Lux’s forthcoming album, “Out Into,” into an all-encompassing space in an effort to recenter creativity and exploration, reclaiming forces of deconstruction and fragmentation to channel them toward discovering a song’s essence. The result is a collective, real-world experience rather than scattered and flat moments amidst an individual’s doom scroll. It remixes both message and medium.

To accompany the installation, Son Lux and MASS MoCA Records will release a limited-edition pink vinyl pressing of “Out Into Us (Slow Down)” on September 12. Signed copies will be available for a limited time at MASS MoCA’s Research & Development Store.

From the flawless weather to the incredible crowd energy, we’re still beaming from last week’s performance with Lucy Dacus and Smidley in Courtyard D!

Take a peek at some of the evening’s highlights, and add a MASS MoCA show to your Summer 2026 bucket list.

📸: @magicharps

R&D is turning three 🎉

Throughout the past three years, MASS MoCA’s Research & Development Store has become a hub for artist-made objects, vinyl, books, conversations, one-of-a-kind finds, and now exhibitions like “50 Years of PUNK.”

Whether you’ve joined us for a book talk, stopped in for the perfect gift, or stumbled upon something unexpected, thank you for exploring with us. Stop by, treat yourself to something new, and help us celebrate three years of creative discoveries.

📸: Doug Mason & Ryan Harper

We’re taking some notes from these visitor POVs as we head into the weekend 💫

Plan your visit to take in all of the views and hues that our campus has to offer, and be sure to tag @massmoca in your photos — we’d love to see what catches your attention during your next visit!

This week, we`re going back to back with some of our biggest shows of the summer!

Tonight, Lucy Dacus is returning to MASS MoCA for the first time since her crowd-favorite performance at Courtney Barnett’s Here and There Festival in 2022 for the kind of intimate concert that only she can deliver.

And then tomorrow, Robby Hoffman, who you might recognize from the last two seasons of HBO`s "Hacks" and who`s been hailed as "the future of comedy," will be taking to the Hunter Center with a sold out comedy set that`ll leave you laughing all weekend long.

Bang on a Can`s gallery concerts are officially in full swing across MASS MoCA`s campus!

Tomorrow July 22, there will be a special, entirely free concert at 4:30pm in Courtyard A, as Nani Agbeli and Faith Conant lead the Bang on a Can Summer Festival fellows in a performance of traditional Ghanaian music and dance for the entire North Adams community to come and enjoy! (Rain location B5, free to all)

Ahead of today`s World Cup final match, we`re looking back at artist Danny O`s work "Ball Walk," which was made up of hundreds of different balls that the artist found on beaches and near rivers, from MASS MoCA`s 2001 exhibition "Game Show"!

When it was on view, "Ball Walk" was accompanied by the following text:

The ball is a very important shape to the artist. It is both the shape of our planet and the shape of the smallest drop of water. The artist also thinks the balls are like people in a family. Some are old and aged like a grandparent, others are small and new, reminding us of babies. Bringing all the lost balls together is like having a family reunion.

Stand back from the balls and close your eyes halfway. Do you still see each ball or just its color? Do the old balls remind you of games you like to play?

There are just two months left to experience Alison Pebworth’s participatory exhibition “Cultural Apothecary” before it leaves view on September 7!

Whether you want to sip a reparative elixir at the tea counter, contribute to the Heart Tally, or unearth your buried dreams, “Cultural Apothecary” provides the space to slow down and check in with the feelings you’ve been setting aside. Take some time for yourself on your next MASS MoCA visit and stop by!

On view now in Building 4.3 — “Daniela Rivera: Hacia Cuando (To When).”

“Hacia Cuando (To When),” a third-floor commission by Chilean-born and Massachusetts-based artist Daniela Rivera, explores the migration of cultural traditions, histories, and practices through the material language of pre-Hispanic fresco traditions and the sonic language of resonance.

At the center of the exhibition is a tilted platform of handmade fresco tiles that operates as a sonic device when walked across by museum visitors. As visitors move through the space, hidden resonance chambers and contact microphones amplify each step, creating evidence of transitory and migratory pathways.

Operating simultaneously as painting, sculpture, site-specific installation, and sonic instrument, Rivera’s cross-disciplinary project demonstrates how migration — physical, cultural, or otherwise — is constantly taking place and reshaping society and ourselves.

Plan your visit to experience this newly opened exhibition at the link in our bio.

📸: Tony Luong