Arts and Entertainment
March 17, 2025
From: Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary ArtSpring is in the air, and we can't wait to welcome you back to MASS MoCA for engaging exhibitions, public programs, and live music. To tide you over until our summer season is announced next month, get a jump on the warmer days ahead by planning for the return of Bang on a Can: LOUD Weekend - just announced for this July 31 through August 1 (tickets are on sale now). Enjoy it all as a member for savings and access to events like our recent celebration of new Building 6 exhibitions (pictured here). March is Member Appreciation Month and your chance to get two extra months of membership on us when you join or renew today!
Just Announced
LOUD Weekend 2025
July 31–August 1, 2025
Our beloved summer festival with Bang on a Can returns! Over three weeks, every corner of our galleries and outdoor spaces will come alive with performances, workshops, and seminars focused on adventurous new music - culminating in LOUD Weekend, when renowned special guests, BoaC faculty, and young players perform throughout MoCA's campus in a series of playful and heady collisions of jazz, classical, rock, and beyond. Bang on a Can’s LOUD Weekend at MASS MoCA is a fully loaded, three-day, eclectic super-mix of creative, experimental, and unusual music.
Exhibitions Not to Miss
CLOSING SOON
Osman Khan: Road to Hybridabad
Building 4
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, in this upcoming show. 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.
Osman Khan: Road to Hybridabad
Exhibition Catalogue
In this exclusive companion volume to Road to Hybridabad (MASS MoCA, 2025), you are invited to reconsider the narratives around identity, difference, and power reflected and recounted in the tales we tell ourselves, through engrossing text and stunning photography accompanying Osman Khan's current exhibition.
MASS MoCA After Hours: Road to Hybridabad
Saturday, April 5, 4–8pm
Join us for a night at the museum for a last look at Osman Khan: Road to Hybridabad. During this evening of programming, we celebrate the exhibition closing and facilitate knowledge sharing of immigration processes through a toolkit presentation by Emma Lezberg. The exhibition will be on view until 8pm. Mingle, grab the new catalogue, and bid farewell to Khan’s exhibition with light refreshments.
Alison Pebworth: Cultural Apothecary
On view now
For more than a decade, Alison Pebworth has been inspired by a 19th-century neurological disorder called Americanitis. With vague and capacious symptoms ranging from abnormal fatigue to premature baldness, a diagnosis of Americanitis essentially pathologized the anxiety and ennui that plagued many Americans in the wake of industrialization and urbanization. Pebworth’s Cultural Apothecary asks us to consider the root causes of the cultural ills that contribute to our anxiety today, and to work together towards tools for healing. Her installation at MASS MoCA offers an experimental space for embodied, in-person connection, curiosity, and exploration as an antidote to division, loneliness, and isolation.
Join us for tea service in the exhibition's Building 6 gallery, daily from noon to 3pm.
Coming Up Next
Angélica Garcia
Saturday, March 22, 8pm
Gemelo, the new record from the beguiling Mexican-Salvadoran American sonic experimentalist Angélica Garcia, is a vibrant, prismatic hybrid-pop masterpiece that channels the sounds and moods of Kali Uchis, Rosalía, and Kate Bush. It follows her 2020 breakthrough Cha Cha Palace, which included the hit “Jícama” (featured on Barack Obama’s best-of year-end playlist) and launched her into opening for tastemakers like Mitski and Nilüfer Yanya. It’s a treat to welcome her to the B10 while she’s still playing rooms this intimate.
March Is Membership Month!
Member Appreciation Month
March 1–31
Throughout March 2025, we are celebrating MASS MoCA members with additional discounts and perks for a limited time only. Become a MASS MoCA member today — enjoy more than a year of FREE exhibition access, exclusive member programs, special invitations, discounts on shopping, and more.