As spring warms up, take a stroll outside of MASS MoCA’s gates to the 40-foot-tall “Big Bling” by Martin Puryear!

The colossal work is the largest temporary installation that Puryear has created, and is built of wood, his signature material, as well as chain-link fence. While the statue was initially created to live in New York City’s Madison Square Park, with its title reflecting the character and inhabitants of the urban environment, its current home at MASS MoCA amplifies the sheer size and impact of the work by placing it somewhere in which its height is rivaled only by our clock tower, the city church steeples, and the surrounding Berkshire mountains.

On this World Poetry Day, we`re looking back at poet Anaïs Duplan`s reading of James Baldwin`s "the fire next time" in Steve Locke`s exhibition of the same name at our January Free Day.

Locke`s exhibition takes its title from the 1963 book by American author and civil rights activist James Baldwin, which galvanized the American public with its brutal honesty about racial inequality. Like Baldwin, Locke invites a viewer to grapple with the legacies of racial violence in an exhibition that, borrowing the writer`s phrase, "tells the truth" unflinchingly.

Take a stroll through the seasons and celebrate the first day of spring in Carly Glovinski`s "Almanac," on view in MASS MoCA`s Hunter Hallway 🌼

"Almanac" spans a hundred feet and chronicles the blooms of New England`s flowers from April through September. Weeks pass in the blink of an eye as you meander from cold hearty daffodils, violas, and bleeding hearts to irises, Queen Anne`s lace, morning glories, and cosmos.

As you walk among the intricately-constructed buds, see if any look like the ones starting to sprout in your garden!

The first wave of the FreshGrass | North Adams lineup is here!

Get ready for three days of festival magic September 19-21 with the best in roots and bluegrass music including Greensky Bluegrass, Cimafunk, Lee Fields, Kitchen Dwellers, Jaime Wyatt, and so many more including FreshGrass commissions and FreshScores ⚡️

Snag your passes now at the cheapest price available and stay tuned for more lineup news later this spring! See you in September 🪕

Link in our bio for weekend passes!

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!

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

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!

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!

“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!