Join us in the Like Magic exhibition for the final installment in our series of screenings of short videos by artists and filmmakers addressing technologies of magic — including devices, charms, rituals, and spells. This session is curated by Curatorial Assistant Lydia Jasper.
Performing Arts & Entertainment
Genesis Báez’s visual work merges fiction, personal narratives, and social histories of modern colonization in a conversation around placemaking. Báez’s debut monograph, Blue Sun (Capricious Publishing, 2025) spans a decade of photographic work made in Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Blue Sun offers a glimmering examination of matriarchal kinship through images of the elemental and generational. Christine […]
Literature, Lectures, and Talks
Celebrate the start of summer with free museum admission on June 21, 2025 during MASS MoCA’s Community Day. Enjoy museum tours, art-making in Kidspace, author talks, and conversations with artists on exhibitions. Stay tuned for a full list of happenings at MASS MoCA.
Martha is invited by Jeffrey Gibson to engage with his installation POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT; she and her touring band will offer Song-scapes — an immersive, congregational concert honoring the space in sound, sonic time travel — connecting the ancestors and descendants, the past and present, unapologetically uplifting the Black and Indigenous interwoven American story in […]
Diversity and Inclusion, Performing Arts & Entertainment
A celebrated commentator on the human consequences of technology, Nicholas Carr reorients the conversation around modern communication, challenging some of our most cherished beliefs about self-expression, free speech, and media democratization. He reveals how messaging apps strip nuance from conversation, how digital crowding erodes empathy and triggers aggression, how online political debates narrow our minds […]
Literature, Lectures, and Talks
You know summer is in full swing when The Chalet at MASS MoCA returns! Spend the evening in our beloved beer garden that features live performances and a bar designed from objects in artist Dean Baldwin’s 2013 exhibition Oh, Canada. With riverside regulars and friendly new faces, summer’s most magical memories happen at The Chalet—in the […]
Performing Arts & Entertainment
Mark your calendars for this season’s Open Studios at MASS MoCA and get to know the current artists-in-residence over snacks and conversation! Each event will take place in Building 13 + Building 34.
Arts and Culture, Performing Arts & Entertainment
You know summer is in full swing when The Chalet at MASS MoCA returns! Spend the evening in our beloved beer garden that features live performances and a bar designed from objects in artist Dean Baldwin’s 2013 exhibition Oh, Canada. With riverside regulars and friendly new faces, summer’s most magical memories happen at The Chalet—in the […]
Performing Arts & Entertainment
SNACKTIME is Philadelphia’s beloved seven-piece band with soul, funk, punk, hip hop, and rock influences.They began by performing free shows in Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square in the summer of 2020. After attracting huge crowds in the park, the band played their first headlining club show and sold over 900 tickets. Things quickly progressed — the group […]
Diversity and Inclusion, Performing Arts & Entertainment
You know summer is in full swing when The Chalet at MASS MoCA returns! Spend the evening in our beloved beer garden that features live performances and a bar designed from objects in artist Dean Baldwin’s 2013 exhibition Oh, Canada. With riverside regulars and friendly new faces, summer’s most magical memories happen at The Chalet—in the […]
Performing Arts & Entertainment