Beginning October 25, join writer Anaïs Duplan for a multi-session, seminar-style series in our galleries exploring themes of privilege and power in contemporary art.

Through short readings, writing exercises, and group discussion, participants will engage directly with exhibitions by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) artists on view at MASS MoCA, each of which explores power and privilege in different ways.

Register for a single session or the full series — save your spot and learn more at the link in our bio.

📸 : Liz McCarthy and Elias Williams

Two additional works by Laurie Anderson, "All Things Fractured: Lola in the Night Sky" and "Citizens" (2021), are now on view in MASS MoCA’s B6: The Robert W. Wilson Building.

"All Things Fractured: Lola in the Night Sky" is a portrait of Anderson’s beloved dog Lolabelle, influenced by "The Tibetan Book of the Dead," in which themes of love, death, dreaming, and illusion are explored.

In "Citizens" (2021), nineteen small clay figures — modeled after Anderson`s friends — serve as surfaces for video projections of those same friends sharpening knives. The rhythmic sound, which initially resembles ice skating, is both musical and unsettling.

“There’s something eerie about a group performing the same action outside the harmony of an orchestra.” Anderson remarked in a 2022 interview with The Brooklyn Rail.

Plan your visit today to experience these compelling works.

MASS MoCA and Hen House Studios are proud to announce the formation of a new collaborative record label, MASS MoCA Records!

Combining the museum’s international reach and entrusted relationships with performing artists and the expertise of Harlan Steinberger of Hen House Studios, MASS MoCA Records is designed as an alternative to the current commercial model for how independent music is heard, developed, and shared. 

Artists selected for the new label will be an extension of the museum’s curatorial ethos and the label will not have a scheduled application process. Launched as a three-year pilot, a limited number of albums will be released each year and produced at various recording studios in the Berkshires and throughout the world. 

The first band to sign with MASS MoCA Records is The Kasambwe Brothers, a multi-generational band who has been making music together for almost 40 years and are grounded in the rich, musical heritage of Malawi, Africa. Through an initial collaboration between the museum and Hen House Studios in 2024, The Kasambwe Brothers traveled from Malawi to the United States for the first time to be in residence at MASS MoCA, which included an unforgettable live performance and time at Studio 9 in North Adams to record their first full-length album with Steinberger.

The first three songs from their self-titled album to be released on October 24 are out now and available at the link in our bio!

Happy first day of fall! We`re looking forward to a season of changing leaves and slow gallery wanders to take in the scenery alongside our exhibitions. Enjoy these photos from falls past and we`ll see you all season long 🍂

For “Rhapsody” — on view beginning October 18 — Jimena Sarno engages craft traditions to imagine a future built on values of collectivity, reconfiguration, and repair, in collaboration with artists, teachers, and makers, most of whom are from the Global South, and combines filmmaking, sound, and sculpture with contemporary and traditional craft practices.

Within a global context of extreme violence, fragmentation, and destruction, the artists share time, space, and resources to deepen solidarity through making, repairing, and the collective production of alternative forms of knowledge, emphasizing our shared responsibility for repairing a broken-down present as we defend our future.

In exactly one month, families with children of all ages are invited to MASS MoCA`s free after hours Family Night!

Featuring a quest throughout the museum, live jazz music by BAAMS, face painting, and two different art-making stations, this year`s Family Night is a chance to spend a night at the museum and inspire the young artists in your life! See the link in our bio to RSVP for free 🎨

It`s New York Fashion Week — that means it`s time to highlight MASS MoCA`s very own "Supermodel."

Since its beginnings, photography has been thought of in contradictory terms. Initially, people believed that a photograph was a real document of the world, a mirror image captured on paper. However, photography is also the product of human imagination. The nine artists in the 2000 exhibition "Supermodel" used this contradiction in a very specific way, photographing architectural models and fake buildings.

These pictures not only documented the “fake” structures that existed before the camera’s lens, but also convinced us that we were looking at “real” buildings. They were truthful about the object’s existence, but deceitful about the size, material, or place in which it appears — reminding us of the tenuous and often superficial line between the factual and the imagined.