Feminist icon, Grammy winner, Broadway star, best selling memoirist, and children’s book author Ani DiFranco is the mother of the DIY movement, being one of the first artists to create her own label in 1990 (the aptly named Righteous Babe Records). While she has been known as the Little Folksinger, her music has embraced punk, […]
Performing Arts & Entertainment
Celebrated dance-theater artist David Roussève’s DaddyAF 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 roller coaster journey with HIV, and the shattering […]
Diversity and Inclusion, Performing Arts & Entertainment
Families with children up to 6 years old are invited to join MASS MoCA Museum Educators for a storytime and related exploration in the galleries. Each storytime will feature a different children’s book about contemporary art, creativity, and/or the themes of the exhibitions on display. Meet in Kidspace at the designated time and a brief […]
Save the date — Friday, May 23, 2025. Celebrate the close of MASS MoCA's 25th Anniversary Season with us by gathering with fellow supporters and friends to raise a glass to our shared art futures. This festive benefit dinner and summer season opener will include a fresh-from-the Berkshires dinner, a first-look at Vincent Valdez: Just a […]
Benefits and Galas, Performing Arts & Entertainment
The iconic choreographer Trisha Brown's Roof Piece (1971) — a trailblazing site-specific work that forever changed the notion of dance's relationship to the environment in which it's performed — will explode across our campus, helping to bring our year-long 25th Anniversary celebration to a close by highlighting the physical structure that anchors MASS MoCA's place as one […]
Arts and Culture, Performing Arts & Entertainment
Roof Piece (1971) by the iconic choreographer Trisha Brown — a trailblazing site-specific work that forever changed the notion of dance's relationship to the environment in which it's performed — will explode across the roofs of our campus, helping to bring our year-long 25th Anniversary celebration to a close by highlighting the physical structure that […]
In between the two performances of Roof Piece, join MASS MoCA Director Kristy Edmunds for an insightful conversation with Susan Rosenberg. Rosenberg is the author of Trisha Brown: Choreography as Visual Art. She is consulting historical scholar at Trisha Brown Dance Company and directs the master's degree program in museum administration at St. John's University, New York, where she is […]
Literature, Lectures, and Talks
The iconic choreographer Trisha Brown's Roof Piece (1971) — a trailblazing site-specific work that forever changed the notion of dance's relationship to the environment in which it's performed — will explode across our campus, helping to bring our year-long 25th Anniversary celebration to a close by highlighting the physical structure that anchors MASS MoCA's place as one […]
Arts and Culture, Performing Arts & Entertainment
Get a first look and celebrate the opening of Just A Dream…alongside exhibitions Ohan Breiding: Belly of a Glacier, co-curated with Williams College Museum of Art, and Dirty & Disorderly: Contemporary Artists on Disgust.
MASS MoCA is pleased to present Vincent Valdez: Just a Dream…, the artist’s first museum survey, including previously unexhibited and new bodies of work, co-organized by MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) and Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH). Spanning over two decades of his work, from early career drawings to recent monumental portraits, Just a […]