Museum of Contemporary Art CT

Museum of Contemporary Art CT Offering contemporary art exhibitions, performing arts events & award winning educational programs to all of Connecticut and surrounding areas.

09/05/2026

Fifteen seconds. One unforgettable voice.

A Juilliard-trained, Broadway-forged powerhouse takes Whitesnake's Is This Love somewhere entirely new — and a voice like this reveals its full force only in person. At MoCA\CT, Morgan James sings feet away inside our galleries: a Manhattan-caliber evening, minutes from home.

The room is small on purpose, and it's filling fast. Plan your Saturday, October 3 around it.

Get tickets: https://mocact.org/performance/mocact-presents-morgan-james/

Learn more about Morgan James: https://www.facebook.com/MorganJamesOnline

Not every Labor Day Weekend goes according to plan. The beach is crowded. The barbecue gets rained out. Your afternoon s...
09/04/2026

Not every Labor Day Weekend goes according to plan. The beach is crowded. The barbecue gets rained out. Your afternoon suddenly opens up.

Make a little room for art.

Head to MoCA\CT and spend the long weekend with Looking for History—an exhibition that takes a sweeping look at the distinct yet interconnected conversations about our nation’s past, present, and potential future.

Take in Michael Borders’s monumental Connecticut Industry—a 10-by-40-foot, eight-panel mural spanning more than 350 years of Connecticut’s industrial history.

Then step into Rick Shaefer’s Colossi, where awe-inspiring landscapes, walls, machinery, and questions about the boundaries we create invite you to look at our world differently.

Looking for History is on view through November 15.

Labor Day Weekend Hours
Friday 12-5PM
Saturday 10AM–5PM
Sunday 12–5PM

MoCA\CT
19 Newtown Turnpike, Westport, CT

First photo by Lewis Derogene

09/04/2026

ONE WEEK FROM TONIGHT.

What does Connecticut look like from 2,000 feet above?

For artist Michael Borders, that aerial perspective became the foundation for Connecticut Industry, a monumental eight-panel mural tracing nearly 300 years of Connecticut’s people, landscape, labor, manufacturing, and ingenuity.

“I imagined the painting as a giant motor—an image that could convey the power of the people, the land, the machines, and everything working together.”

Spanning 40 feet and more than 25 years in the making, Connecticut Industry brings the state’s industrial history into one sweeping, complex vision—from Indigenous craftsmanship and water-powered mills to submarines, helicopters, aerospace, and the industries shaping Connecticut today.

See it for yourself at the opening.

Michael Borders: Connecticut Industry
Opening Reception
Thursday, September 10 | 6–8 PM
MoCA\CT | Westport, CT

One week away. Come experience Connecticut from a whole new perspective.

RSVP at https://secure.qgiv.com/for/mocactevents/event/michael-borders-opening/

09/03/2026

A 1980s rock anthem, slowed to a smolder.

Morgan James reimagines Whitesnake's Is This Love through vintage soul — the voice behind 250 million views, Juilliard-trained and Broadway-forged, performing feet away inside MoCA\CT's contemporary galleries. It's the kind of night you'd normally drive into Manhattan for: world-class artistry, intimately staged, surrounded by the art on our walls — offered minutes from home on the Soul Remains Tour.

Seating is kept intentionally intimate, and these evenings sell out. Make Saturday, October 3 your night out.

Get tickets: https://mocact.org/performance/mocact-presents-morgan-james/

Discover more at: https://www.facebook.com/MorganJamesOnline

09/02/2026

Own a piece of Looking for History.

Only one signed archival pigment print of Rick Shaefer’s Liberty Head Dismantled is available for purchase—and when it’s gone, it’s gone.

In this striking 2018 work, the head of the Statue of Liberty lies on its side amid heavy industrial steel as a worker uses a torch to dismantle the iconic structure. Shaefer transforms a familiar symbol of liberty into a haunting meditation on history, labor, power, and the fragility of ideals.

Rick Shaefer, Liberty Head Dismantled, 2018
Signed archival pigment print
36 × 31.5 inches
$3,500

Generously donated by the artist, with your purchase directly supporting MoCA\CT.

Only one available.

For purchase information: visit the MoCA\CT Museum Shop at https://secure.qgiv.com/event/mocactstore/store/?utm_source=Newsletter+as+of+May+2026&utm_campaign=718aa4daa9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_12_17_05_20_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-612f86515c-&mc_cid=718aa4daa9&mc_eid=UNIQID

or email [email protected]

Local pickup at MoCA\CT, November 16–18. Connecticut sales tax applies.

MoCA\CT was proud to celebrate the arts beyond our walls this weekend. On Saturday night, MoCA\CT Executive Director Rob...
09/01/2026

MoCA\CT was proud to celebrate the arts beyond our walls this weekend.

On Saturday night, MoCA\CT Executive Director Robin Jaffee Frank and Senior Director of Development + Philanthropy Janice Egan joined A Living Building Celebration in Norwalk—an inspiring benefit for the Norwalk Conservatory of the Arts, hosted by HMTX CARES at HMTX House Up on the Hill.

From live music and Broadway performances to meaningful conversations and an architectural tour, the evening reflected what happens when creativity, community, and generosity come together.

We are grateful to be part of a vibrant cultural community that connects our communities and to support the organizations, artists, educators, and advocates who make the arts thrive.

Pictured: HMTX Industries Executive Chairman Harlan Stone and Sabina Stone; MoCA\CT Executive Director Robin Jaffee Frank; MoCA\CT Senior Director of Development + Philanthropy Janice Egan; and Jennifer Thompson Van de Graaf, daughter of longtime MoCA\CT benefactors David and Joyce Thompson.
Photo by: Michelle Moreus

September 11 marks the 25th anniversary of the attacks that changed our nation. It is a solemn day for remembrance and r...
08/30/2026

September 11 marks the 25th anniversary of the attacks that changed our nation. It is a solemn day for remembrance and reflection.

Consider spending part of your day at MoCA\CT — free of charge. Explore Looking for History, our current exhibition examining the people, places, and stories that shape our understanding of the past, then take a quiet walk through our six-acre grounds, where sculpture, mature trees, and open space offer room to pause and reflect.

On this day of remembrance, we welcome you to find a moment of stillness, connection, and contemplation at MoCA\CT.

08/29/2026

“I wanted to show that building barriers isn’t new—it’s something humanity has always done. The question isn’t just ‘why now?’ but ‘why ever?’” — Rick Shaefer

This weekend, step into Colossi, Rick Shaefer’s monumental exhibition on view in Looking for History.

From a distance, meticulous, charcoal-drawn towering walls and cinematic landscapes emerge. Up close, they dissolve into swirling marks, lines, and unexpected details: historical figures, helicopters, dinosaurs, and more. Each work invites you to slow down, look closely, and consider the enduring questions behind the barriers we build.

Who do walls protect? Who do they keep out? What histories do they carry?

See Looking for History this weekend at MoCA\CT. Visit mocact.org for tickets and more information.

Gallery Hours:
Saturday | 10am – 5pm
Sunday | 12pm – 5pm

08/28/2026

Making weekend plans?

Picture a sunny afternoon at MoCA\CT: six acres of open space, a sculpture garden, old trees, flowers in bloom, and shady places to sit, wander, and simply exhale.

Come for the art. Stay for the feeling.

Step inside the galleries. Slow your pace. Explore the grounds. Give yourself a little time away from the traffic, noise, and demands of the day.

Discover More at MoCA\CT.

Gallery Hours:
Thursday | 12pm – 8pm
Friday | 12pm – 5pm
Saturday | 10am – 5pm
Sunday | 12pm – 5pm

MoCA\CT is grateful to Dorothy + Philip Silber, who generously donated the beautiful sculptures that grace our garden.

We are terribly saddened at the passing of Yayoi Kusama, an artist whose limitless vision transformed the way we see our...
08/27/2026

We are terribly saddened at the passing of Yayoi Kusama, an artist whose limitless vision transformed the way we see ourselves, one another, and the world around us.

In 2019, Kusama’s work helped inaugurate MoCA\CT (MoCA Westport at the time). As we opened our doors , her work welcomed our community into her unforgettable universe of light, reflection, repetition, and wonder.

For six remarkable weeks, visitors experienced Infinity Mirror Room: Where the Lights in My Heart Go and Narcissus Garden together. It was an unprecedented presentation on the East Coast.

Her work invited us to step beyond ourselves: into lights that seemed to extend forever, reflections that connected each visitor to the people around them, and a world where wonder felt infinite.

Today, we pay tribute to an extraordinary artist whose imagination continues to inspire us all.



Pictured:
Mirror Room: Where the Lights in My Heart Go, 2016
Narcissus Garden, 1966
Photos by Jenna Bascom
Yayoi Kusama photo: Andrew Toth/Getty Images

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