‘Tis the season for holiday selections from the MASS MoCA Gift Shop and Research & Development Store — the 2025 Holiday Gift Guide is here!

Explore art-inspired décor, handcrafted jewelry, creative kits, exhibition catalogues — including including preorders for signed copies of "Steve Locke: I said what I said" — and artist editions like "Slaughterhouse-Five" featuring Vincent Valdez’s original drawings.

You can find thoughtfully curated gifts for every age, every interest, and every art lover on your list at the link in our bio.

Nov 14

This winter and into the spring, come warm up on MASS MoCA`s creative campus and experience new exhibitions ("Technologies of Relation," "Homecoming," "Michael E. Smith"), electrifying performances (Black Belt Eagle Scout with Mato Wayuhi with Ailani, Cochemea, Yaya Bey, an open rehearsal presentation of Shamel Pitts | Tribe`s "Marks of RED"), art-making invitations (Ceramic Repair Workshop in "Rhapsody," school break workshops), and so much more!

Tickets are on sale for members now, and will be available to the general public starting Friday at noon!

Nov 12

Chilly temps and early sunsets got you down? Stop into Alison Pebworth’s "Cultural Apothecary" any day from 12–3pm to sip Golden Root tea out of an artist-designed drinking horn and connect with the community around you!

This custom tea was created in collaboration with herbalists Rebecca Guanzon and justin adkins of Wild Soul River in Williamstown, and is served at a counter designed to encourage connection, curiosity, and exploration as antidotes to division, loneliness, and isolation.

Nov 10

"Zora is not interested in embracing the flag to secure the bag," says Terence Washington, Curatorial Exchange Initiative fellow and curator of Zora J Murff: "RACE/HUSTLE," on view in B6: The Robert W. Wilson Building beginning December 6.

"‘RACE/HUSTLE’ brings together photographs, sculpture, participatory work, and didactic installation to argue that Black people have been given a limited — and limiting — set of proposals for finally getting free. At the same time, we ask a question that implicates us all: if you knew you had the tools and the information to get free, would you really want to do it?" continues Washington.

Nov 8

A little commotion for our stunning red tree, and another vibrant fall season here at MASS MoCA 🍂

As the trees turn and the air sharpens, our campus is shifting toward a new season of programming — stay tuned!

Nov 7

Sharing an interest in artistic representations of climate change, artist Ohan Breiding and writer Lisa E. Bloom will be in conversation this Saturday, November 8, discussing Breiding’s multimedia exhibition "Belly of a Glacier," on view in Building 4.3!

Comprised of a photographic assemblage and experimental documentary, the exhibition functions as a moving eulogy for the soon-to-be-extinct Rhône Glacier. The work weaves together Breiding`s experiences growing up visiting the glacier, footage of the first funeral held for a glacier, depictions of animals living on and around the Rhône, and scientific research into the history that glaciers preserve to illustrate the ways that our bodies and their futures are inextricably linked to the natural world.

Nov 5

This week marks one year of Jeffrey Gibson’s "POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT" being on view — and we’re celebrating with a few highlights from the exhibition`s recent gallery activations and from visitors.

Over the past year, this vibrant exhibition has transformed MASS MoCA’s B5 gallery into a living dialogue — where color, sound, movement, and identity come together to challenge and expand our sense of belonging. Gibson envisions this exhibition as an open invitation to other Indigenous creatives — a space where difference isn’t just acknowledged, but celebrated.

Nov 4

How do we relate to each other — and to our devices — in a world shaped by rapidly advancing technology?

"Technologies of Relation," on view beginning February 21, brings together twelve artists who explore our digital lives with nuance and urgency. Moving beyond the binary of "good" or "bad" tech, this exhibition embraces both connection and critique: how A.I. and algorithms can unite us, but also how they can exclude, erase, and oppress.

These artists expose the colonialist logic embedded in corporate-developed technologies while imagining futures that are inclusive and liberatory.

Nov 3

There’s just one week left to experience Steve Locke’s evocative exhibition "the fire next time" before its last day on view, November 8.

Dubbed "one of the most powerfully affecting contemporary art experiences I’ve ever had" by Murray Whyte in the Boston Globe, "the fire next time" has awed and moved audiences since its opening last year, shedding light on the uniquely American forms of violence directed at Black and queer people. Don’t miss your last chance to glimpse this exhibition in MASS MoCA’s Robert W. Wilson Building.

Nov 2

For the past two weeks, Samora Pinderhughes and collaborators have been in residence at MASS MoCA preparing "I Hope This Finds You Well" — an in-progress multidisciplinary performance piece that responds to the testimonials of those harmed by incarceration, policing, and detention.

Join us on November 1 to experience this powerful work as it takes shape live in the Hunter Center and stay after the program for a conversation between Pinderhughes and MASS MoCA Director Kristy Edmunds.

Oct 31

In the spirit of Halloween, we`re taking a look at some of the spookiest works in our galleries, Anna Ting Möller`s "In Tandem" and "Slut Station," on view in "Dirty & Disorderly: Contemporary Artists on Disgust"

These works use kombucha scoby, also known as "mother," to evoke the look and feeling of skin. Over the course of their time on view, these works will change as the scoby remains in our galleries exposed to the elements, creating ephemeral sculptures/installations/performances that challenge conventional notions of life, death, lineage, and care.

Oct 31

Randi Malkin Steinberger`s "The Archive of Lost Memories" turns collecting into an art of remembrance. Over years of searching flea markets and online archives, Steinberger has gathered a trove of found photographs, slides, and tintypes — images once discarded, now rediscovered.

Using various materials such as thread, nail polish, and abstract gestures, Steinberger transforms these fragments of others’ lives into vibrant works that bridge past and present, each item becoming both an object and a question about memory, loss, and the stories we choose to tell.

Visitors can peer through the windows of Building 6.1A during gallery hours, or step inside when the artist is in to witness her process through November 2.

Oct 29