We couldn’t help but notice that our beloved maple tree at the museum entrance has really been leaning into the MASS MoCA brand with those bright red leaves.

Check out some of our favorite fall views from this month 🍂

Mentally still here.

Earl Sweatshirt + MIKE took over the Hunter Center for an unforgettable night, with opener Anysia Kym. Swipe through to relive it with us.

📸 : Ryan Harper

Beginning November 1, outdoor exhibitions "Mary Lum: Assembly (Lorem Ipsum)," "Anselm Kiefer," and "Stephen Vitiello: All Those Vanished Engines" will be off view for the winter season.

Plan your visit for the week ahead and add a stop outside to experience them before the temperatures drop!

A look back at "Hacia Cuando: An Opera" performed in "Daniela Rivera: Hacia Cuando (To When)" earlier this month.

A powerful gathering of art, sound, and storytelling, this audiovisual opera performance was the result of years of collaboration between Rivera, Los Angeles–based composer and sound artist Jenny Olivia Johnson, and Argentinian experimental luthier and sound artist Javier Bustos, who built a harpsichord specifically for the piece.

Thank you to all who joined us for this moving experience, and to the artists and performers whose creativity and collaboration brought this work to life.

📸 : @wellesleyartdept

If you`ve strolled through our outdoor exhibitions, you`ve likely passed beneath the wings of "Michael Oatman: all utopias fell" — an invitation to climb the staircase and step into another world. On November 1, we will bid a fond farewell to the iconic installation.

The repurposed Airstream has been a visitor favorite since it appeared to have crash landed on campus in October 2010. Inspired by aeronauts like Buck Rogers, the artist imagines the shining spacecraft as a 1970s-era satellite manned by a former Sprague employee. Frozen in time, the hybrid laboratory, living space, and library is ultimately an homage to the Sun.

Climb the staircase up through the Boiler House and experience this aeronautical fantasy and beacon for curious explorers of all kinds for one last time throughout the rest of October.

On October 17, longtime New Yorker cartoonists Roz Chast and Jason Adam Katzenstein will bring their kitchen-based, witty neuroses to the Hunter Center to discuss a highly relatable topic — kitchen anxiety.

When Chast and Katzenstein admitted to having kitchens that were far from shiny beacons of homemaking, they knew they couldn’t be the only ones who left the dishes to soak for a little too long, and their co-authored book "The Two Saddest Kitchens" pulls back the curtain on our hilarious, all-too-relatable kitchen realities.

Snag your tickets at the link in our bio 🎟️

Today, we`re taking a closer look at works by exhibiting artists Cecilia Vicuña, Sam Frésquez, and Lola Ayisha Ogbara, currently on view in "Spatial Poems" in Building 4.1.

Aiming to disrupt the art world`s curatorial structures, this exhibition is presented in three concurrent parts, with curators and artists responding to the many themes in Cecilia Vicuña’s works — exploring ephemerality, memory, and cyclical repetition through a range of materials and compositional approaches.

Together, the projects can be understood as a score or spatial poem, created by curators and artists working in a euphonious rhythm, inspiring a dialogue on care, social relations, and the organization of new forms of being and processes as an act of refusal to the current precaritization of the art world.

As the bass player for the iconic ’90s alternative rock bands Hole and Smashing Pumpkins, Melissa Auf der Maur toured the world, documenting life backstage, onstage, and in the crowd. By the time she joined Hole’s "Live Through This" world tour, a roll of 35mm film was on the rider at every venue.

Join us in the Research & Development Store on October 16 for an intimate conversation with Melissa Auf der Maur as she walks us through "Even the Good Girls Will Cry: A ’90s Rock Memoir " and shares images from "Melissa Auf der Maur: My ’90s Rock Photographs."

Save your seat at the link in our bio.