We couldn`t be more excited to welcome cultural critic Fran Lebowitz, interviewed by MASS MoCA Director Kristy Edmunds, to the Hunter Center this Saturday March 15!

After the conversation, Fran will be signing copies of "The Fran Lebowitz Reader" – in which you can read her acerbic views on current events and the media as well as pet peeves including tourists, baggage-claim areas, aftershave lotion, adults who rollerskate, children who speak French, or anyone who is unduly tan – in the MASS MoCA lobby at 9:30. Or, you can skip the line and reserve a pre-signed copy at the link in our bio!

Get ready to turn the volume up, @bangonacan ‘s LOUD Weekend returns July 31 – August 2!

A fully loaded, three–day eclectic super–mix of creative, experimental and unusual music, LOUD Weekend is the culminating event of the 23rd annual Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA.

Visit the link in our bio to learn more.

📸: Greg Nesbit

Celebrated dance-theater artist David Roussève’s DaddyAF, coming to MASS MoCA on May 3, is an intimate meditation on life’s purpose, created and performed by a queer African American acutely aware of the finite time he has left on the planet. Like strands of DNA, it connects elements encoded in his body, including 600 years of genealogy, a rollercoaster journey with HIV, and the shattering loss of a husband — while revisiting movement from 35 years of dance-making to explore the meaning of ‘virtuosity’ for a 64-year old body.

Tickets at the link in our bio!

On April 5, celebrate the closing of Osman Khan: Road to Hybridabad with a night at the museum!

During this evening of programming, we`ll draw from themes in Khan’s exhibition and celebrate the stories of immigrants around the world.

The night will begin with an Immigration Toolkit presentation (in both English and Spanish) geared toward allies and community leaders wishing to learn more about how best to support immigrants in their lives and communities.

Then, all are invited to mingle, grab and get signed the new exhibition catalogue (available at the Research & Development Store), and bid farewell to Khan’s exhibition with light refreshments.

Tickets and more information at the link in our bio!

“Before we find a cure, we must know what ails us,” explains artist Alison Pebworth. Pebworth’s exhibition “Cultural Apothecary,” on view in Building 6: the Robert W. Wilson Building, is both an exploration into this concept and an attempt to bring the community together to heal.

Throughout the exhibition, there are opportunities for the public to shape the installation by filling out surveys that reflect on their own experiences, feelings, and concerns. The responses will not only physically shape the exhibition, with the heart at the room’s center dripping with visitors’ dreams that are attached by Pebworth each weekend, but the cures that are offered within it, as the reparative elixirs that are served at the exhibition’s countertop will shift according to the needs of the community.

Learn more about “Cultural Apothecary” and the ways that visitor experiences shape the exhibition at the link in our bio!

The Rhône Glacier is located near Ohan Breiding’s family home in Switzerland, and the artist has witnessed firsthand the dramatic shrinking of the ancient accumulation of snow and ice, which scientists predict will be gone by 2050. It seems unfathomable to think that in the artist’s lifetime, this river of ice which formed thousands of years ago will have disappeared — an unexpected confusion of human and geological time.

The Rhône is eulogized in Breiding’s poetic documentary “Belly of a Glacier,” on view in Building 4.3. The film tells the story of the glacier through words, images, and sound, as well as the story of its relationship to those who will be left behind to mourn its loss, and those who may never experience its presence.

Alison Pebworth: Cultural Apothecary is on view now!

For more than a decade, Pebworth has been inspired by a 19th-century neurological disorder called Americanitis. With vague and capacious symptoms ranging from abnormal fatigue to premature baldness, a diagnosis of Americanitis essentially pathologized the anxiety and ennui that plagued many Americans in the wake of industrialization and urbanization. Pebworth’s Cultural Apothecary asks us to consider the root causes of the cultural ills that contribute to our anxiety today, and to work together towards tools for healing.

Come sip a reparative tea and connect with others in Building 6: The Robert W. Wilson Building and visit the link in our bio for more information about the exhibition and Pebworth`s extended MASS MoCA residency.

Add a few stops to your visit this Saturday, February 22!

Start the day with a curator tour of "Dirty & Disorderly: Contemporary Artists on Disgust" followed by two back-to-back conversations in Club B10 with exhibiting artists Alison Pebworth and Steve Locke, then stroll through "Audience" as the Williams College Chamber Choir performs "when i am alone" by composer David Lang.

Head over to the link in our bio to plan your visit!

Disgust has been interpreted as an evolutionary tool of survival to create distance between ourselves and that which may harm us — particularly foods. In "Dirty & Disorderly: Contemporary Artists on Disgust", Anna Ting Möller, New Red Order, and Nguyễn Duy Mạnh use the aesthetics of disgust to understand the social construction of putrid and squalid things.

On Saturday, February 22, join Williams College graduate student and curatorial fellow Riley Yuen for a members-only tour of the exhibition and learn how artworks made from ceramics, kombucha scoby, and photogrammetry pick at the sutures of society and uncover the ways in which responses of disgust can be (re)programmed.

Learn more at the link in our bio.

📸 : Kaelan Burkett