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Sol LeWittA Wall Drawing Retrospective

Featuring 105 of Sol LeWitt’s large-scale works that encompass the artist’s entire career—from his taut, early graphite wall drawings of the mid-1960s to his swirling, brightly colored drawings of the early 21st century—the milestone retrospective Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective was organized with Yale University Art Gallery, Williams College Museum of Art, and the […]

The Hall Art Foundation

In 2013, The Hall Art Foundation joined with MASS MoCA and the artist Anselm Kiefer to realize an extraordinary quasi-permanent installation of works by the post-World War II German master. Occupying a 10,000 square-foot, 1-million gallon abandoned water tank, the exhibition includes three vast works, including a magnificent suite of 30 large-scale paintings on the subject of […]

Solid Sound Festival

The Grammy award-winning band Wilco is the force behind our Solid Sound Festival, a three-day festival of art, music, and comedy that takes over the entire MASS MoCA campus every other summer. Wilco headlines the festival and also selects a diverse slate of established artists and young talent that plays to an audience of some 8,000 […]

Clark Art Institute

The Clark Art Institute sponsors annual exhibitions organized by graduate students from the Clark Art Institute–Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art. Through this program, candidates for a Master’s in Art History undertake all aspects of exhibition development, including scholarly research and writing, installation design, art handling and preparation, and exhibition promotion. MASS MoCA […]

FreshGrass Festival

MASS MoCA’s FreshGrass festival of progressive bluegrass and roots music is produced in collaboration with FreshGrass LLC and its sister publication, No Depression Magazine. Since 2010, the FreshGrass festival has won a reputation for hosting master musicians who are the standard-bearers of traditional bluegrass, side by side with musicians exploring the genre’s most progressive and experimental […]

Bang on a Can

Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival is MASS MoCA’s longest running musical event: a three-week concatenation of performances, workshops, and seminars focused on adventurous new music. The Festival’s public programs include 40+ performances during regular museum hours—taking over gallery spaces, courtyards, and virtually any other space the musicians can exploit. The Festival also includes several […]

Jacob’s Pillow

Jacob’s Pillow Dance, the nation’s preeminent and longest-running institute and festival for contemporary dance, makes MASS MoCA an off-summer home for large-scale co-presentations and dance residencies. Performances range from fully staged productions by leading international dance companies to focused technical workshops, to participatory dance parties featuring live music and dance instruction. Utilizing MASS MoCA’s massive Hunter Center theater […]

Sundance Institute

Every winter, MASS MoCA becomes a home for the Sundance Institute, whose Theatre Lab brings playwrights, actors, and musicians to North Adams for an intensive 3-week workshop residency centered on writing, first readings, and work-in-progress showings, often unveiling new scripts and songs to the public for the first time before Berkshire audiences.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art

While most MASS MoCA exhibitions are temporary (nearly the entire museum is reinstalled every year), Joseph Beuys’ Lightning with Stag in Its Glare has graced its galleries since the museum opened in 1999. On extended loan from the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts

One of the top public liberal arts colleges in the country, the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts‘ robust Arts Management program supplies MASS MoCA with interns across every department. MASS MoCA is also one of the numerous venues in MCLA’s summer-long DownStreet Art — a roving slate of pop-up galleries, performances, and participatory events throughout our home city […]

Williams College Museum of Art