Roomful of Teeth, Pamela Z & The Living Earth Show: This Impossible Building
Thursday, August 17, 8pm

Welcome back, Roomful of Teeth! The Grammy-winning vocal titans return to their summer home at MASS MoCA to create new works and hone techniques. Roomful of Teeth is in residence for a week with special guests, culminating in a knock-out work-in-progress performance of This Impossible Building tomorrow, August 17. Tickets are still available for this one; don't miss it!

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COMING & GOING

Carrie Schneider: Sphinx
Through September 17

MASS MoCA presents a suite of new works made over the past 2½ years by artist Carrie Schneider. Reminiscent of abstract paintings, her photographs play with the camera’s imaginative potential and its relationship to the subconscious, while experimenting with the medium’s sculptural possibilities.

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In Conversation: Carrie Schneider & Laura Mulvey
Thursday, September 14, 4:30pm

Live from MASS MoCA’s Club B10, artist Carrie Schneider joins renowned film theorist Laura Mulvey, who will join remotely from the UK. Known for her seminal 1975 essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” Mulvey discusses her new book, Afterimages: On Cinema, Women and Changing Times and its intersections with Schneider’s exhibition Sphinx. Sarah Lookofsky, Director, Kunstnernes Hus, Norway (and a contributor to Schneider’s catalogue) will moderate the conversation.

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CLOSING SOON!
Marc Swanson
Through September 4

Marc Swanson works across diverse media, creating sculptures and environments that explore the relationships between humans, culture, and the natural world. A Memorial to Ice at the Dead Deer Disco is his most ambitious installation to date.

On Thursday, August 24, celebrate the exhibition before it closes at a free disco dance party with DJ Nayland Blake during The Chalet.

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Joseph Beuys
Through September 4

Mid 20th-century European sculptor Joseph Beuys' dramatic Lightning with Stag in its Glare (Blitzschlag mit Lichtschein auf Hirschem), 1958–85, is the only environment that the artist cast in bronze.

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PROGRAMS & PERFORMANCES

TOMORROW!
Xtina Parks: ROAM
Thursday, August 17, 6pm

Join MASS MoCA Senior Curator Susan Cross for a conversation & book-signing in the brand-new Research & Development Store at MASS MoCA with photographer Xtina Parks. Parks' new book, ROAM, represents 13 years of work throughout the African continent, capturing the magnificence and magnitude of its wildlife, people, and landscapes.

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See what else is coming up at the R&D Store, including a reading, discussion, and book-signing with Donna Kozloskie & Ben Sisario, two authors from the acclaimed 33 1/3 book series, on August 26.
 
Danielle Ponder
Friday, August 18, 8pm

Don't miss Danielle Ponder’s refreshingly original, shiver-inducing mix of pop, R&B, blues, rock, and moody trip-hop topped by her celestial voice — an instrument that can plumb melancholy depths and scrape the sky with hurricane-force wails — when she plays MASS MoCA on Friday.

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Explore the Fall Season!

From programs and activations that shine light on our newest exhibition — Like Magic, opening October 29 (with a member preview October 28) — to concerts, community events, and so much more, our fall season has something for everyone.

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Compagnie Käfig at Jacob’s Pillow
Wednesday–Sunday, August 23–27

Compagnie Käfig will perform their signature work Pixel, a wondrous merging of virtuosic dance and technology, at Jacob’s Pillow August 23–27. Seen by audiences in more than 30 countries around the world, the show explodes into a 3D world of captivating digital light and video projections, which accompany dancers’ movements.

Use code CK-TEN at purchase for a 10% discount:

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