This month, we'll see you for live performances when shoegaze legends slowdive take to the Hunter Center stage with special guest Quannnic on January 31, and Laura Ortman activates Jeffrey Gibson's POWER FULL BECAUSE WE'RE DIFFERENT during a not-to-be-missed Free Day presentation at 1pm on January 25. Feel more like exploring at your own pace this winter? We've got two upcoming exhibitions opening on February 1 - read on to learn more, and plan your visit today. 

MASS MoCA is open every day except Tuesdays, including this Monday, January 20 (Martin Luther King Jr. Day), 10am-5pm.

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Family Storytime

Saturday, January 18

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 month's program will feature a different children’s book about contemporary art, creativity, and/or the themes of the exhibitions on display. A brief gallery walk-through and discussion of the art will follow. This month's exploration will visit Carly Glovinski's Hunter Hallway installation Almanac. Please meet in Kidspace. This program is in partnership with the North Adams Public Library.

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Story Hour: Road to Hybridabad and Open House

Saturday, April 5, 5pm

Mark your calendar! Before the closing of Osman Khan's current exhibition Road to Hybridabad this April, join our Story Hour: Road to Hybridabad & Open House on April 5, when we will celebrate the stories of people from around the world living in Berkshire County. We’ll start at 5pm with a conversation and signing of the upcoming catalogue with artist Osman Khan and curator Alexandra Foradas. Then head to the galleries for selected short-form stories told in Osman Khan: Road to Hybridabad from 6 to 7pm. Stick around afterward for an open house to mingle and bid farewell to Khan’s exhibition, with light snacks and a cash bar. MASS MoCA’s Road to Hybridabad story hour is produced in collaboration with Berkshire Community College.

Do you have a story you’d like to share? Submit it here:

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Free for All

Free Day

Saturday, January 25, 10am-5pm
Reception in the R&D Store, 5-6pm

Free for all who walk through our doors, MASS MoCA’s annual community celebration rocks the galleries with thematic museum tours, author talks in the R&D Store, performances, and much more, all co-presented by MASS MoCA's Lead Community Sponsor, MountainOne. Free Day is also supported by Berkshire Gas.

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Live Performance

slowdive

Friday, January 31, 8pm

Early ‘90s shoegaze icons slowdive re-emerged after the success of Pygmalion (1995) 29 years ago with their self-titled record in 2017 and an earth-shaking reunion set at Barcelona’s Primavera Sound Festival. They've been selling out shows and releasing new music ever since - including 2023’s brilliant Everything Is Alive. slowdive performs at MASS MoCA as part of their 2024-2025 U.S. tour.

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No Rule Is Our Rule with Eiko Otake

Saturday, February 1, 4pm

This moving film is a story of friendship between two independent artists and the body memories each carries. Looking back on the video diaries they had filmed without a script, Eiko Otake and Wen Hui continued the dialogue they had started during the COVID-19 pandemic on Zoom, sharing past works that form a deeper understanding of their circumstantial differences and characteristic similarities. 

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Williamstown Theatre Festival: Jeremy O. Harris

Friday, February 7, 8pm

Go behind the scenes of celebrated writer, producer, and actor Jeremy O. Harris’ new play prior to its world premiere at Williamstown Theatre Festival. Recently announced as the inaugural creative director of the Williamstown Theatre Festival’s Creative Collective, Harris will share his creative process. Excerpts will also be performed as the culmination of a workshop that was part of the production’s Works & Process LaunchPAD residency at Potash Hill.

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Winter/Spring Exhibitions Opening Soon

Ohan Breiding: Belly of a Glacier

On view beginning Saturday, February 1

In 2019, Iceland constructed the first memorial to mark the death of its Okjökull glacier. Since then, funerals have been held around the world to mark the melting of glacier bodies. These rituals of collective grief amplify the current state of climate emergency while expressing the intimate entanglement of human and environmental well-being. Consisting of an experimental documentary film and a photographic installation, Ohan Breiding’s Belly of a Glacier connects this act of mourning to ongoing practices of preservation that strive to protect the ice - a material that contains both remnants of the past and the conditions of a future world. 

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Dirty & Disorderly: Contemporary Artists on Disgust

On view beginning Saturday, February 1

In Dirty & Disorderly: Contemporary Artists on Disgust, Anna Ting Möller, Nguy?n Duy M?nh, and New Red Order invoke disgust to scrutinize power structures. Representing bodies beyond skin - mutilated figures and overflowing fleshy wetness - these artists interrogate the limits of traditional kinship, capitalist systems, and colonialist structures. Artworks made from ceramics, kombucha scoby, and photogrammetry pick at the sutures of society and uncover the ways in which responses of disgust can be (re)programmed.

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