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SUMMARY:MASS MoCA From Home
DESCRIPTION:Can’t make it here in person? Join us on January 23 as we open the digital doors into our galleries and onto our stages with the launch of an online hub for all (virtual) things MASS MoCA. Explore the Sol LeWitt galleries with an all-new interactive 3D tour\, tune in to community pop-up performances (available to watch for only a limited time as we kick things off!)\, get your creative juices flowing with classic ArtBar specials\, and experience MASS MoCA in a way that’s almost as good as being here.\n
URL:https://massmoca.org/event/mass-moca-from-home/
CATEGORIES:Calendar Page
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260523
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260524
DTSTAMP:20260519T104702
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SUMMARY:Taryn Simon The Pipes
DESCRIPTION:Taryn Simon’s large-scale outdoor sculpture The Pipes is on long-term view on the MASS MoCA campus. What began as an oversized concrete instrument for a cacophony of global mourning in Simon’s work An Occupation of Loss (The Armory\, 2016) will be populated by the sounds\, collective call and response\, and movements of a living public. The 11 structures that make up the installation – which Simon designed in collaboration with Shohei Shigematsu of architecture firm OMA – are an immersive experience\, offered to the public as a sacred space for reflection\, impromptu performance\, and stargazing.\nThe Pipes joins MASS MoCA’s growing constellation of long-term outdoor artworks sited throughout the museum’s campus and downtown North Adams\, including works by Jenny Holzer\, Martin Puryear\, James Turrell\, and Franz West. This will be Simon’s second project at MASS MoCA\, following her acclaimed 2018 solo exhibition A Cold Hole + Assembled Audience.\nThe installation of Taryn Simon’s The Pipes at MASS MoCA is made possible in part by the Michael G. and C. Jane Wilson 2007 Trust\, Gagosian Gallery\, Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte\, and David Zicarelli and Virginia Troyer. \nPre-installation view of Taryn Simon\, The Pipes\, 2016|2021 \n
URL:https://massmoca.org/event/taryn-simon-the-pipes/
CATEGORIES:Current Exhibitions,Exhibition,Summer 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260523T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260523T170000
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SUMMARY:Arielle Twist: CHOPPED
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a sound installation and audio takeover of Jeffrey Gibson: POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT by Halifax-based Two-Spirit Cree transfemme artist Arielle Twist.\nCommissioned by MASS MoCA in conjunction with Gibson’s exhibition and produced by Patrick ‘Reachout’ Coll\, CHOPPED is a sound work informed by notions of erasure\, disembodiment\, hauntings\, and the power of absence and ancestral presence. Twist conceived the sound installation in the wake of increasing discrimination and violence suffered by trans and gender nonconforming people\, particularly in America. CHOPPED is both a manifesto and a prayer\, authored and performed by Twist and a small number of trans collaborators. In the absence of her physical presence\, Twist offers viewers the power of her voice\, her spirit\, and a braided lock of her hair.  \nAbout the Artist:  \nArielle Twist’s (George Gordon First Nation and Sipekne’katik First Nation\, Cree) interdisciplinary practice blends poetics and visual modes of creation to explore the realities and legacy of Indigenous and Trans* life and grief. Exploring and experimenting through mediums such as textiles\, painting\, performance\, literature\, and language\, Twist is reconnecting with the legacy of Indigenous Trans matriarchy and womanhood. Recent exhibitions include Indigenous Joys\, Neutral Ground\, Saskatchewan\, and Time As A Relative\, Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art\, Kelowna\, British Columbia. Twist has received awards from the Writers’ Trust of Canada\, Indigenous Voices Awards\, and Arts Nova Scotia for her debut poetry collection Disintegrate/Dissociate (2019\, Arsenal Pulp Press).  \nPrograms associated with Jeffrey Gibson: POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT  are supported in part by the Henry Luce Foundation. Additional support is provided by the Endeavor Foundation. \n
URL:https://massmoca.org/event/arielle-twist-chopped/
LOCATION:Building 5
CATEGORIES:Featured,Public Program,Summer 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260523T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260523T170000
DTSTAMP:20260519T104702
CREATED:20260326T132227Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260428T003116Z
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Artists and Curators of Spatial Poems
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a panel discussion on Spatial Poems\, moderated by Curatorial Exchange Initiative Fellow Marissa Del Toro with collaborating guest curators Ninabah Winton and Jamillah Hinson and artists Sam Frésquez and Lola Ayisha Ogbara. The conversation will revolve around the exhibition’s themes of precariousness\, care\, collectivity\, ephemerality\, memory\, and cyclical repetition.\nAfter the event\, stay for the exhibition’s opening celebration at 5:30pm. Learn more. \nSpatial Poems is a communal exhibition in three concurrent parts developed by CEI Fellow Marissa Del Toro in collaboration with guest curators Ninabah Winton and Jamillah Hinson. The exhibition features the work of artists Cecilia Vicuña\, Lola Ayisha Ogbara\, and Sam Frésquez. Together\, the exhibitions can be understood as a score or spatial poem\, created by curators and artists working in a euphonious rhythm. Spatial Poems inspires 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. Learn more. \n
URL:https://massmoca.org/event/in-conversation-artists-and-curators-of-spatial-poems/
LOCATION:Swing Space\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured,Public Program,Summer 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260523T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260523T173000
DTSTAMP:20260519T104702
CREATED:20260326T132319Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260517T231410Z
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SUMMARY:Member & Artist Opening Reception:Spatial Poems and Michael E. Smith: The Makings of You
DESCRIPTION:Join fellow museum members\, MASS MoCA curators\, friends from the community\, and the artists to celebrate the opening of Spatial Poems and Michael E. Smith: The Makings of You.\nSpatial Poems is a communal exhibition in three concurrent parts developed by Curatorial Exchange Initiative Fellow Marissa Del Toro in collaboration with guest curators Ninabah Winton and Jamillah Hinson. The exhibition features the work of artists Cecilia Vicuña\, Lola Ayisha Ogbara\, and Sam Frésquez. Together\, the exhibitions can be understood as a score or spatial poem\, created by curators and artists working in a euphonious rhythm. Spatial Poems inspires 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. Learn more. \nUsing familiar objects\, artist Michael E. Smith creates installations that thrum with unexpected energy. Drained fish tanks\, plaster-filled basketballs\, and unplugged scanners exert a new – or previously unseen – sense of alertness\, even swagger\, in their novel conditions. Retooling objects that remain\, in the artist’s words\, “stubbornly themselves\,” such as a piece of furniture or article of clothing\, Smith tests the way that materials interact and react when placed together. He handles the shared materials of our lives with sensitivity\, often coupling disparate objects in the hopes that they will be reunited with their other halves. Diverting them from their future as waste\, Smith also taps into their resilience. Learn more. \nNot yet a member? Join now to attend the opening celebration at no cost with advance registration. MASS MoCA members enjoy free museum admission\, ticketing discounts\, invites\, and more. \nSpatial Poems is part of MASS MoCA’s Curatorial Exchange Initiative (CEI). The CEI is generously supported through leadership gifts from Sarah Arison and the Arison Arts Foundation\, Michi Jigarjian\, Denise Sobel\, the Teiger Foundation\, and Yukiko and Anders Schroeder. Additional support is provided by the MASS MoCA Director’s Catalyst Fund\, with generous contributions from Greg and Anne Avis\, Kelly and Bill Kaiser\, Steve and Lisa Jenks\, Bob Gold\, and an anonymous donor. \nMichael E. Smith is made possible by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in support of MASS MoCA and the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Rosen Family Fund and Kathy & Brian Schultz\, in memory of Billy Poveda. \n
URL:https://massmoca.org/event/member-artist-opening-reception-spatial-poems-and-michael-e-smith/
LOCATION:B4.1
CATEGORIES:Homepage,Membership,Summer 2026
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