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

Summer’s LOUDest weekend is almost here, and single-day passes are available now!

Bang on a Can’s Summer Music Festival returns to MASS MoCA on Thursday, July 16, with three weeks of gallery concerts as Bang on a Can fellows and faculty let loose throughout the galleries, all leading up to LOUD Weekend — three days of immersive music experiences unfolding across MASS MoCA’s galleries, performing arts stages, and outdoor spaces.

Whether you stop by for a gallery concert or spend some time immersed in LOUD Weekend, there’s no wrong way to experience one of the country’s most adventurous music festivals.

With temperatures finally more temperate outside, it’s a great time to stroll across MASS MoCA’s campus and check out Taryn Simon’s “The Pipes”!

“The Pipes” were originally installed in New York, and played host to 30 professional mourners from around the world who used the shape and sound of the structures as an instrument to amplify their work.

Now, the concrete pipes are offered to the public as a sacred space for reflection, impromptu performance, stargazing, and any action that their unique qualities inspire in a visitor.

Over the past few months, artist Daniela Rivera and MASS MoCA’s Art Fabrication team have transformed the Building 4.3 gallery into a bustling studio space in preparation for “Daniela Rivera: Hacia Cuando (To When),” on view beginning July 11.

Featuring a large, inclined platform floor made from handmade tiles created using pre-Hispanic fresco traditions, Rivera’s newly commissioned installation functions simultaneously as painting, sculpture, and sonic device. Through the migration of materials, histories, cultural objects, narratives, practices, and myths, the exhibition invites viewers to consider how history is carried, transformed, and remembered.

Through her reinvigoration of craft tradition, Rivera examines the historical, cultural, and colonial narratives embedded within these materials and their varied places of origin.