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By Karolina HacAugust 28, 2018 0

The Painter and the Poet in Conversation: Blank Melody at the ICA

Tucked between Kevin Beasley’s immersive multi-room solo show and We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85, Caitlin Keogh’s first solo museum exhibition, Blank Melody, greets viewers with a handful of large scale, vibrant paintings. From a quick stroll around…

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By Denis MutungiAugust 22, 2018 0

Specters, Materiality, and the Presence and Absence of the Body: Kevin Beasley at the ICA Boston

Nike Air Jordan 1 shoes, durags, rain jackets, kaftans, mouth guards, feathers, fitted caps, microphones, sound effect processors, amplifiers, polyurethane foam, and resin are all materials Kevin Beasley focuses on to evoke the spectral traces of the past and present…

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By Emma KranerMay 16, 2018 0

Dystopian Visions: Art in the Age of the Internet at the ICA Boston

The exhibition Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today at the ICA Boston includes the work of sixty artists, collaborations, and collectives. It demonstrates the detachment, escapism, and disenfranchisement of Internet users from various perspectives, as well…

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By Chelsea CoonMay 16, 2018 0

Wangechi Mutu: A Promise To Communicate, On View at the ICA, Boston

Brooklyn-based artist Wangechi Mutu’s installation A Promise To Communicate, now on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, addresses complex issues regarding methodologies of communication, as well as the abstract, often arbitrary systems within which the body exists. Repurposing…

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By Silvi NaciJuly 25, 2017 0

Nari Ward: Neutralize Naturalization

Sun Splashed: Nari Ward, the artist’s largest survey to date, is now on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Organized by Ruth Erickson, Mannion Family Curator, with Jessica Hong, Curatorial Associate, this show couldn’t have come at a…

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By Scout HutchinsonAugust 4, 2016 0

Field of Vision: Liz Deschenes at the ICA

In his quintessential text on vision, Techniques of the Observer, author and art historian Jonathan Crary notes: “The mind does not reflect truth but rather extracts it from an ongoing process involving the collision and merging of ideas.”(1) The nineteenth-century…

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By Tessa Paneth-PollakFebruary 3, 2016 0

Sartor Resartus: Diane Simpson at the ICA, Boston

In Diane Simpson’s sculptures currently on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, the regime of technical drawing collides with the pensile contingency of the textile. To make her sculptures, Simpson subjects the sartorial layer to exacting mathematical study. There is…

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By Céline BrowningApril 27, 2015 0

2015 Foster Prize Interviews: Vela Phelan

Every two years the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston (ICA) selects up to four Boston-area artists to receive the James and Audrey Foster Prize. In addition to a cash award, finalists are given the opportunity to mount a show in…

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By Céline BrowningMarch 30, 2015 0

2015 Foster Prize Interviews: kijidome

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By Céline BrowningMarch 23, 2015 0

2015 Foster Prize Interviews: Sandrine Schaefer

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By Monica McTigheMay 20, 2013 0

Doris Salcedo at the ICA Boston

The Colombian artist Doris Salcedo has been trying since the 1980s to represent in sculpture the experience of trauma and violence. The plainness of her works, made of simple everyday objects, such as shoes and chairs, belies the intense experiences…

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By Stephanie CardonFebruary 18, 2013 0

On the Line: Andrea Fraser discusses the personal and the political

This conversation with Andrea Fraser took place in January, on the day that followed her performance of Men on the Line: Men Committed to Feminism, KPFK, 1972 at the ICA Boston. Fraser has gained much recognition for her engagement in…

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By Bonnie BOctober 22, 2012 0

Live and On Film: The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Sam Green and indie rock legends Yo La Tengo brought their “live documentary” on the life and work of Buckminster Fuller to Boston for two performances at the ICA on Saturday, October 20. Similar to Green’s earlier Utopia…

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By Bonnie BSeptember 16, 2012 0

The Walls Are Alive With the Sound of Os Musicos

In creating their vibrant and fantastical artworks, Brazil’s Os Gemeos (“The Twins” Octavio and Gustavo Pandalfo) draw heavily from dreams and fantasy, rural traditions, and urban life and street culture. Strongly inspired by both the hip hop and graffiti style…

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By Brian Christopher GlaserSeptember 5, 2012 0

ICA and SOWA Team Up for First Friday

Just months after trying their hand at the over decade-long tradition, the ICA Boston has joined forces with the SOWA district galleries to throw what they’re calling a “citywide First Friday”. And as a subtle reminder that none of us…

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By Stephanie CardonAugust 31, 2012 0

A Giant Picnic

If you’ve been away a lot this summer and have yet to see Os Gemeos’ public artwork in Dewey Square, head down there during these last halcyon days of summer. While you’re enjoying a grassy pause between the skyscrapers, have…

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By BR&S Contributing AuthorMarch 30, 2010 0

STEPHEN PETRONIO COMPANY’S I DRINK THE AIR BEFORE ME

By JOSEPH CAMPANA On the way to the Boston ICA to see the latest from the Stephen Petronio Company, I walked past Our Lady of Good Voyage Chapel. Nothing could have better suited Petronio’s ambitious I Drink the Air Before…

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By Kurt Cole EidsvigMarch 16, 2010 0

PHILIP-LORCA DICORCIA AND IN THE MAKING: IMPRESSIONS FROM THE ICA COLLECTION

By KURT COLE EIDSVIG Kurt Cole Eidsvig is one of the first recipients of Art Writing Workshop fellowship, a collaboration between the Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program and the International Art Critics Association/USA Section (AICA/USA). The…

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By Christian HollandJanuary 27, 2010 0

ICA Boston Announces Finalists for Foster Prize

The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston has announced nine artists as finalists for the 2010 James and Audrey Foster Prize. The honorees for the the museum’s biennial award and exhibition for Boston-area artists are Robert de St. Phalle, Eirik Johnson,…

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By BR&S Contributing AuthorJanuary 25, 2010 0

ALONZO KING’S LINES BALLET @ ICA

By CHELSEY PHILPOT The LINES Ballet’s Friday night performance at the Institute of Contemporary Art began with false informality: the dancers, wearing sweatpants and t-shirts, warmed up on stage as the sold out audience took their seats. Though this display…

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