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A man wearing black stands in front of a large painting of thin blue lines.

Art Fair on the Square

One of the Midwest’s most popular and highly regarded outdoor celebrations of the arts will return to the Capitol Square on Saturday, July 12 and Sunday, July 13, 2025, as MMoCA presents the 67th annual Art Fair on the Square.

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Art Lab

Art Lab is a free drop-in artmaking experience for kids and their caregivers. After the Saturday morning Farmers Market, pop into the Art Lab to run creative experiments with color, shape, and more. Each week focuses on a new material and approach to art making.

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Rooftop Cinema: The Cathedral of New Emotions

Enjoy this surreal, psychedelic and truly cosmic animated feature following a commune of Berlin stoners and intellectuals who get set adrift in space in 1972.

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Current Exhibitions

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Your support makes the art and experiences that MMoCA brings to our Madison community possible. MMoCA offers a wide range of membership options, including a free Friend of MMoCA level.

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Acrylic painting resembling the torso of possibly a woman, rendered in geometric or abstract fashion. Her forearms are cut off and she has a single thigh. Vertical and horizontal strokes are visible. The figure has a broad chest and shoulder. — Christina Ramberg, *Vertical Amnesia*, 1980. Acrylic on Masonite, 49 1/4 x 37 1/4 inches. Collection of the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. Museum Purchase, through funds from George and Sally Johnson and the Rudolph and Louise Langer Fund.

The Permanent Collection

Explore nearly 6,000 art objects representing roughly 1,400 artists in its permanent collection.

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