Happy New Year and welcome to the start of the winter/spring season at MASS MoCA! Mark your new year's calendar with exhibitions opening soon; a day of free admission and special programming at our winter Free Day on January 25; concerts featuring shoegaze legends slowdive (January 31) and trumpeter Dave Guy (February 28); and much more.

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Coming Up

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.

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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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Open Studios

Thursday, February 6, 5–7pm

Get to know the current Assets for Artists artists-in-residence over snacks and conversation in Building 13 and Building 34. As always, admission is free and open to all.

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Exhibitions Not to Miss

CLOSING SOON

Eluding Capture: Three Artists from Central Asia

On view through Sunday, January 5

Eluding Capture features the works of Saodat Ismailova, Alexander Ugay, and Gulnur Mukazhanova, three artists who explore the conditions of belonging in Central Asia through photography, textile, film, and video. Typically defined as modern-day Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan, Central Asia has been ruled by Indigenous Khanates, the Russian Empire, and the Soviet Union at different points in time. The region’s rich philosophical, literary, and artistic traditions provide the basis for contemporary interventions that attend to its history and speculate on its future.

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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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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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Member Perks

Support MASS MoCA as a member in 2025 and enjoy a full calendar year of member programming and special perks. Already a MASS MoCA member? Thank you for your continued support! Don't miss these special events this season, in addition to first access to Camp MASS MoCA in summer 2025 when registration opens later this month. Not yet a member? Join now to attend.

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Curator Tour: the fire next time

Saturday, January 18, 10am

Join Curator Evan Garza for a members-only tour of Steve Locke’s Building 6 exhibition the fire next time. New York-based artist Steve Locke’s exhibition is a meditation on uniquely American forms of violence directed at Black and queer people. the fire next time takes its title from a book by James Baldwin, first published in 1963 amid the growing civil rights movement. 

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Member Celebration: Steve Locke, Alison Pebworth & Amy Podmore

Saturday, February 22, 5:30pm

Join fellow museum members, MASS MoCA curators, friends from the community, and the artists to celebrate three new exhibitions in Building 6: The Robert Wilson Building that have opened in the past year: Steve Locke: the fire next time, Alison Pebworth: Cultural Apothecary, and Amy Podmore: Audience.

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Member Appreciation Month

March 1–31

Member Appreciation Month is back! 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.

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