Kidspace Opening Reception
Sunday, June 26, 10am–1pm

Join in for the Opening Reception of Kidspace’s new exhibition, Defining Moments— featuring the work of Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist Shaun Leonardo and Brazilian pop artist Bruno Miguel—exploring how memories are formed, recalled, and visualized. Stop by, say hi, and make some art.

As always, Kidspace is free for all.

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Time of Now: Fragility, Community & Repair
Saturday, June 25, 10:30am–6pm

Through performances, talks, workshops, and films, the Time of Now festival activates the museum campus—from Club B10 to The Prow and galleries in between—encouraging audiences to question our current state of well-being, our interdependence, and our desire for communion and collective action as we care for ourselves and others.

Explore just a couple of the day's highlights below; then dive into the day's full schedule which includes a performance of RESTLESS ANIMAL KINGDOM, previewed above. Time of Now is free with gallery admission.

Lily Cox-Richard: Assuming Breakage
Talk/Workshop
10:30am, Gallery A, Building 5

Exhibiting artist Lily Cox-Richard will discuss how living and growing require repair and maintenance, and participants will mend rope together.

Creating in a Pandemic
Artists in Conversation
11am, Prow, Building 6

Artists Helga Davis, Willie Binnie, and Mary Lum discuss fragility, creativity, and the ways in which their practices and relationships to community have shifted over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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North Adams Pride Night
Friday, June 24, 6–9pm

What started in 2021 as a small initiative by local businesses turned into a grand celebration of bright colors, music, and hundreds of supporters. Join in for the second year as the celebrations kick off in MASS MoCA's Courtyard A, led by the North Adams Pride Committee.

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Cirque Kalabanté
Sunday, June 26, 4pm

LOW TICKET ALERT! Cirque Kalabanté combines breathtaking acrobatics with live music for a beautiful presentation of dazzling circus arts and cultural exploration—the perfect summer afternoon for the whole family.

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Brooke Annibale
Saturday, July 2, 8pm

"Dreamy, folk…like the middle ground between Weyes Blood and Beach House." — Brooklyn Vegan

If you haven’t already, press play on the above, because it's not just us saying Brooke Annibale’s tunes are "immediately catchy" (FLOOD). Blending Americana roots with sparkling melodies Annibale creates pop-inflected perfection. Join us for a night of breezy guitar and love-laden lyrics that'll have you humming along til the end of summer.

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The Roots
Friday, July 8, 8pm

With a curtain call that includes a sousaphone, flute, trumpet, saxophone, keyboard, bass, and guitars—not to mention Questlove on drums and Black Thought on vocals—The Roots’ live shows are sprawling, frenetic, and spectacular; a living musical history of soul to hip-hop. Preferred tickets are now sold out, so make your plans now.

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John Cameron Mitchell & Amber Martin
Saturday, July 16, 8pm

Tony Award-winning star of stage and screen John Cameron Mitchell (Joe v. Carole, Hedwig and the Angry Inch), one of alt-culture’s boldest creators, joins forces with international cabaret star Amber Martin and a bevy of special guests in an evening of songs and stories spanning his singular career–all backed by the Hedwig house band **** of Clay

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Save the Date
MASS MoCA Gala 2022
Saturday, October 29, 6pm

In 2022 MASS MoCA’s annual gala moves to our home city of North Adams, Mass. Join us at MASS MoCA for an evening of cocktails, dinner, and a lively auction in support of the museum’s mission. Save the date; full details to come.

From Our Friends at The Trustees & Barrington Stage Company

Rose B. Simpson: Counterculture
On view through November 30

On view at The Trustee’s The Guest House at Field Farm in Williamstown, MA is MASS MoCA exhibiting artist Rose B. Simpson’s most ambitious work to date, Counterculture which honors generations of marginalized people and cultures whose voices have been too often silenced by colonization.

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Andy Warhol in Iran
A World-Premiere Play at Barrington Stage Company through June 25

In 1976, Warhol travels to Tehran to take Polaroids of the Shah’s wife and encounters a young Iranian radical as unpredictable as Warhol himself. In this smart new drama, a fictionalized portrait of Warhol’s famed visit to Iran leaves you asking "Who was the artist and who was the revolutionary?"

Use code THURS25 for $25 tickets on Thursday, June 23.

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