You won’t want to miss the MAD Bash celebrating this summer’s most fun and irreverent exhibition What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of MAD Magazine. Art, music, comedy, festive nosh & libations, and a lot of laughs, all benefiting the Museum.
Stockbridge Room
Special Gallery Viewing: 5-6pm
Program: 6:pm
Due to the high heat and thunderstorms forecasted, tonight’s program has been moved indoors.
PRICE:
Members free
$25 Program with special gallery viewing.
$10 Program only
$10 Online via Zoom only
A conversation about MAD Magazine’s impact on artists and writers working today. Join cartoonist, illustrator, and performer Emily Flake and cartoonist and comedian Jason Chatfield for a lively program exploring the impact MAD magazine has had on a younger generation of artists and writers. Together Flake and Chatfield will share stories about their experiences reading MAD as kids and later what it was like to be contributors to this influential and beloved magazine. The presenters will delve into some of their favorite MAD signature features including Spy vs. Spy, MAD Fold-ins, Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions, the Marginals, and The Strip Club. The conversation will also trace the importance of MAD as a space for cultural critique and irreverent satire that continues to inspire their work today.
90-minute workshop
Price: Members free. Free with Museum Admission
Materials provided.
Price: $10 members, $20 public - Museum admission required
Duration: 40 minutes
Price: $10 members, $20 public - Museum admission required
Duration: 40 minutes
Museum’s Covered Terrace, with a cash bar.
Special Gallery Viewing: 5-6pm
Program: 6:pm
Museum’s Covered Terrace, with a cash bar.
Special Gallery Viewing: 5-6pm EST
Program: 6:pm EST
PRICE:
Members free
$25 Program with special gallery viewing.
$10 Program only
$10 Online via Zoom only
Join Stephanie Haboush Plunkett, co-curator of What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of MAD Magazine for an illustrated lecture that chronicles the history of MAD Magazine and the legendary artists, art directors, and writers who made MAD such a success. Plunkett will discuss highlights from over 250 original illustrations and cartoons on view; created by MAD’s “Usual Gang of Idiots” and from a younger generation of MAD creators. Learn more about the origins of MAD’s clueless, but loveable mascot Alfred E. Neuman and MAD’s parodies of Norman Rockwell illustrations. In addition to the iconic covers, Plunkett will also discuss MAD’s signature features such as Spy vs. Spy, Fold-ins, caricatures and MAD’s satirical send-ups of politics, parodies of movies, television, and brand-name advertisements.
Light snacks and soft drinks provided; cash bar.
Price:
Members free.
$35, includes Museum admission
NOTE: This program takes place at Tanglewood in Studio E, Linde Center for Music and Learning, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA
Price: Free with Museum Admission
Join us to make your own art inspired by the art and antics of MAD Magazine!
Inspired by the progressive, provocative, and always playful MAD magazine, join us for drop-in art-making every Saturday, this summer. Projects will highlight different aspects of MAD magazine, featuring recurring characters, comic strips, bits, and other highlights of its history through drawing, collage, and more.
Virtual Program
Friday, October 18 from 6pm to 8pm
Saturday, October 19 from 10am to 3:30pm
One ticket is good for both days.
It is with gratitude and humility that we acknowledge that we are learning, speaking and gathering on the ancestral homelands of the Mohican people, who are the indigenous peoples of this land on which the Norman Rockwell Museum was built. Despite tremendous hardship in being forced from here, today their community resides in Wisconsin and is known as the Stockbridge-Munsee Community. We pay honor and respect to their ancestors past and present as we commit to building a more inclusive and equitable space for all.
