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March 1–31, 2025 MASS MoCA
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Bang on a Can: LOUD Weekend 2025
Thursday, July 31–Saturday, August 2, 2025 MASS MoCA
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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!
Mar 13

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
Mar 12

"I keep coming back because the exhibitions are constantly changing so there`s always something for everybody here."
Meet MASS MoCA members, Lauren and Bob.
As we continue celebrating Member Appreciation Month, we`ve asked them to share some of their best memories and museum stories with us and what`s kept them coming back to MASS MoCA throughout the last decade.
Visit the link in our bio to learn more about MASS MoCA membership.
Mar 10

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!
Mar 9

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!
Mar 7

Beguiling sonic experimentalist Angélica Garcia will take the Club B10 stage on March 22 at 8pm!
“Gemelo,” Garcia’s latest record, is a vibrant, prismatic hybrid-pop masterpiece that channels the sounds and moods of Kali Uchis, Rosalía, and Kate Bush. It follows her 2020 breakthrough “Cha Cha Palace,” which included the hit “Jícama” (featured on Barack Obama’s best-of year-end playlist) and launched her into opening for tastemakers like Mitski and Nilüfer Yanya. It’s a treat to welcome her to the B10 while she’s still playing rooms this intimate.
See the link in our bio for tickets!
Mar 5

“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!
Mar 4

Member Appreciation Month is here!
Senior Manager of Membership, Kati Nalbandian, walks us through all of the additional perks of being a member at MASS MoCA in March — with a special appearance from Abby @guidosfreshmarketplace . From discounts at both @redevstoremassmoca and the MASS MoCA Gift Shop to weekly member giveaways, there’s plenty to celebrate this month!
Visit the link in our bio to learn more about our membership options.
Mar 3

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.
Feb 26

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.
Feb 22

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!
Feb 21

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
Feb 17

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