This is a bean to bar fundraiser for rescued animals. Experience how chocolate is made, savor the tastes of real chocolate from around the world, and leave with some of your favorite chocolate bars.
Food and Drinks, Literature, Lectures, and Talks
Wharton on Wednesday returns for a five-month run! Join us at the Terrace Café on the first Wednesday of the month, June-October, to hear quintessential Edith Wharton short stories brought to life by local actors. Arrive early to enjoy refreshments from the Café, open 4:00 – 5:30 pm. 07/02: The Reckoning 08/06: The Rembrandt 09/03: […]
Arts and Culture, Literature, Lectures, and Talks, Performing Arts & Entertainment
In late December 1840, adrift in his personal life, 21-year-old Herman Melville arrived in New Bedford, Massachusetts, preparing to embark on a South Seas whaling voyage. His diverse experiences and adventures in the course of the ensuing nearly four years would profoundly shape him and his writings. During this time, young Melville toiled as a […]
Berkshire250, Literature, Lectures, and Talks
Artist Jimena Sarno speaks with guest curator Alexandra Foradas about her first solo museum exhibition, Rhapsody. They will discuss how Sarno engages contemporary and traditional craft practices and over 20 collaborators to illuminate how sharing time, space, and resources can deepen solidarity within a global context of extreme violence, fragmentation, and destruction.
Arts and Culture, Diversity and Inclusion, Literature, Lectures, and Talks
Magnetic, haunting, and tender, Mariah Rigg’s Extinction Capital of the World is a stunning portrait of Hawai’i — and a powerful meditation on family, queer love, and community amid imperialism and environmental collapse.
Belong Berkshires, Diversity and Inclusion, Literature, Lectures, and Talks
Magnetic, haunting, and tender, Mariah Rigg’s Extinction Capital of the World is a stunning portrait of Hawai’i — and a powerful meditation on family, queer love, and community amid imperialism and environmental collapse.
Belong Berkshires, Diversity and Inclusion, Literature, Lectures, and Talks
In her book Displays of Belonging: Polish Jewish Collecting and Museums, 1891–1941 author Sarah Ellen Zarrow illuminates the lives and work of Polish Jewish collectors and museologists who sought to preserve the treasures of the Jewish past while demonstrating Jewish belonging on Polish soil. Her talk will offer a nuanced understanding of the multiplicity of ways in which […]
Diversity and Inclusion, Literature, Lectures, and Talks, Online Event
Join writer Anaїs Duplan for a multi-session, seminar-style series in our galleries to explore the concepts of privilege and power in contemporary art through reading short texts, writing in response to exhibitions, and discussion. This series focuses on exhibitions by Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) identifying artists at MASS MoCA, who explore the […]
Arts and Culture, Diversity and Inclusion, Literature, Lectures, and Talks
Jason Polan (1982–2020), famous for his ink sketches in the cult favorite collection Every Person in New York, also had a robust exchange of artwork through the mail with friends, fans, and pen pals (Marcel Dzama, Stefan Marx, Richard McGuire, Rich Jacobs, Alec Soth, Barry McGee, and others). These whimsical drawings and short text works […]
Literature, Lectures, and Talks
Celebrate the launch of a new translation of Jonas Kreppel’s Adventures of Max Spitzkopf, the complete series of 15 mysteries starring the Viennese “king of detectives,” Max Spitzkopf. Translator Mikhl Yashinsky will share insights into the origins of these stories, how they captivated readers and achieved pulp fiction status, and why they were beloved by figures such as […]
Diversity and Inclusion, Literature, Lectures, and Talks, Online Event