We’ll amplify your MASS MoCA experience when we throw open the doors to the museum for free and fill the galleries with art-making activities, lively discussion, and pop-up performance. Create some art, take a tour, catch some live music in the elevator, and learn about the history of our life on Marshall Street.

Trenton Doyle Hancock grew up in Paris, Texas, to a family of evangelical Baptist ministers and missionaries. Supplementing his religious upbringing with comic books and Greek mythology, at the age of 10 he invented Torpedo Boy — an alter ego/superhero he still uses today. At this young age, Hancock already began to develop a singular mythology, which has evolved over the years. Ultimately birthing his own creation myth — as played out through paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, and installation —…

Cauleen Smith describes her work as a reflection on “the everyday possibilities of the imagination.” Trained as a filmmaker, the multidisciplinary artist creates visual and phenomenological experiences that ruminate on social, cultural, intellectual, artistic, and political liberation. Her stunning works draw on poetry, Afrofuturism, science fiction, and tactics of experimental film to conjure alternative narratives and what the artist has called “a cornucopia of future histories.” She engages topics and influences as disparate as the African Diaspora, the image of…

This is not The Chalet of summers past, for sure, but it’s still friends and fizz, now with face masks, for a chill courtyard hang. Reserve your 6′ space to hear free live, local music each week in MASS MoCA’s premier concert courtyard. Double Diamond kicks us off tomorrow! Bar opens at 7pm, music starts at 8pm, and we close at 10pm. Limited  Capacity / Advance Reservations Required. (Visitors without reservations will be turned away.)

What if you could feel art — with your ears? Our new series Auditory After Hours gives visitors a chance to engage with art in an all-new way. Created and recorded specifically for wandering MASS MoCA’s art-filled spaces, this all new never before heard gallery soundscape proves King’s genius goes far beyond the strings. From ethereal guitar loops to high-voltage drums, it’s a journey into the recesses of musical mastery—your ears won’t know what’s hit them.

What if you could feel art — with your ears? Our new series Auditory After Hours gives visitors a chance to engage with art in an all-new way. Created and recorded specifically for wandering MASS MoCA’s art-filled spaces, this all new never before heard gallery soundscape proves King’s genius goes far beyond the strings. From ethereal guitar loops to high-voltage drums, it’s a journey into the recesses of musical mastery—your ears won’t know what’s hit them.

What if you could feel art — with your ears? Our new series Auditory After Hours gives visitors a chance to engage with art in an all-new way. Created and recorded specifically for wandering MASS MoCA’s art-filled spaces, this all new never before heard gallery soundscape proves King’s genius goes far beyond the strings. From ethereal guitar loops to high-voltage drums, it’s a journey into the recesses of musical mastery—your ears won’t know what’s hit them.

What is the groove and how do you find it? In Dance Within Your Dance, choreographer Tatiana Desardouin invites the audience to connect with the techniques, rhythms, and essence of hip-hop and house dance styles. Not just a simple aesthetic, “the groove” is the soul of street and club dance. A coalescing of community, fashion, training, introspection, liberation, and individual journeys, in this outdoor pop-up performance Passion Fruit explores how the groove can be a roadmap to social justice through…