Summer's not over yet. There's always something new to see, hear, and explore at MASS MoCA. Immerse yourself in installations by Steve Locke, Amy Podmore, and Osman Khan (opening next weekend) and a celebratory concert with Roomful of Teeth. Or join our summer Chalet Drag Night (an annual tradition!) and book talks and curator dialogues with provocative artists and authors Brad Gooch, Marin Kosut, and Tomashi Jackson. With summer menus at our many dining options on campus, there's plenty to taste while you're here, too.

We're squeezing out every ounce of summer while we can - even as we look ahead to our fall season announce next week - so stay cool, and stay tuned!

Exhibitions Newly on View

Building 6: The Robert W. Wilson Building

Steve Locke

the fire next time

Curated by Curatorial Exchange Initiative (CEI) Fellow Evan Garza, the fire next time is a meditation on uniquely American forms of violence directed at Black and queer people. Steve Locke’s interdisciplinary practice engages issues of identity, desire, race, violence, spectacle, and memory. In the artist’s hands, these complexities reveal as much tenderness and humor as they do brutality.

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Amy Podmore

Audience

Artist Amy Podmore is propelled by an interest in surrealist strategies of transformation and the line between stillness and motion in sculpture. In Audience, she offers enigmatic plaster casts of found wicker baskets and cornucopias. What we see as the exterior is actually the interior of these baskets, unfolding a vulnerable underbelly in the act of reversal. 

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Want to learn more about Audience and Amy Podmore's expansive practice? Pick up a copy of the exhibition catalogue Amy Podmore: Audience in MASS MoCA's Research & Development Store!

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Opening Weekend: Road to Hybridabad

Osman Khan: Road to Hybridabad

Member Celebration, Saturday, August 24

On view beginning Sunday, August 25

In this upcoming show artist Osman Khan re-reads the magical and fantastical figures found in folktales and lore, with a particular focus on those from South Asia, the Middle East, and other Muslim and immigrant traditions. Khan interprets these figures through contemporary technologies and concerns, inviting us on a journey across borders, through time, and between legend and history in this sprawling and wryly funny exhibition. You are invited to reconsider - and perhaps rewrite - the narratives around identity, difference, and power reflected and recounted in the tales we tell ourselves. 

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Join us for an artist talk with Khan on the same day. Learn more here.

Opening Celebration & Early Access for MASS MoCA Members 

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We have so much to celebrate ahead, and if you're not a member yet, now is a perfect time to join! Be one of the first to see Osman Khan: Road to Hybridabad at an opening celebration on August 24 and receive early access to our fall season during next week's member pre-sale - on top of receiving unlimited free gallery admission, discounted admission for your guests, 10% off at the MASS MoCA stores, and tons more. Becoming a MASS MoCA member is more than the amazing perks; it means joining a community of art lovers and sustainers. Not yet a member?

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Roomful of Teeth

Celebrating a Dynamic History at MASS MoCA

Saturday, August 24, 8pm

Two-time GRAMMY winners Roomful of Teeth return to MASS MoCA for a week-long residency to workshop new music with some of today's most visionary composers, including Allison Loggins-Hull, Christopher Cerrone and Mingjia Chen. In the residency's capstone performance this month, the band will present a sensational retrospective performance of the iconic new works that have been born out of 14 years of consecutive summer residencies at MASS MoCA.

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Coming Up at MASS MoCA

The Chalet

Thursdays through August 29, 6–10pm

We've got some good times coming up at MASS MoCA's riverside summer fun spot on Thursday nights! Taking place outdoors in Courtyard C and indoors in Building 8, The Chalet is free for everyone - a beer garden that features live performances and a bar designed from objects in artist Dean Baldwin’s 2013 Oh, Canada exhibition. Don't miss Eleanor Levine and Band tonight, August 15; The Noisy on August 22; and one of the highlights of the summer - our annual Chalet Drag Night on August 29!

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Tomashi Jackson Across the Universe

Thursday, August 29, 6pm

Deeply committed to social justice, artist Tomashi Jackson - familiar to MASS MoCA audiences for her stand-out 2017 presentation of sculpture and video as part of In the Abstract - creates vibrant paintings, sculptures, videos, and textiles that powerfully explore systemic inequities found throughout U.S. history. This book launch includes a conversation with the artist and MASS MoCA’s Senior Curator, Susan Cross, to celebrate the launch of Tomashi Jackson: Across the Universe, the first book to present an overview of Jackson’s practice.

$5 ticket can be used toward your book purchase.

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