Two of today’s more compelling shows consider work that was made or displayed for the first time at around the same point. Boston’s ICA of course has This Will Have Been: Art, Love, & Politics in the 1980s, which…
I’ve been listening to The Smiths’ The World Won’t Listen on and off for over a month solely because of Phil Collins and Wellesley College. It’s a bit too emo for my tastes today, but I don’t remember thinking that…
Andrea Fraser suddenly started shaking. From my seat at the very back of the theater, I couldn’t quite tell: was she crying? Sobbing, even? “Don’t cry Andrea,” I murmured. Empathy coursed through me: I was reaching out to her, I…
Nothing worse than showing up to a holiday party wearing the same festive tie. But currently, both the ICA, Boston and the Davis Museum at Wellesley College are exhibiting Adrian Piper’s My Calling Card at the same time, so who…
How’s this for a photographer’s dirty little secret: I often end up wishing I hadn’t gone out of my way to see a photography show in a gallery. I’ve been disappointed too many times by walls full of crappy digital…
The Institute of Contemporary Art has announced the finalists for The Foster Prize 2013 James and Audrey Foster Prize. The four finalists are Sarah Bapst, Katarina Burin, Mark Cooper and Luther Price. The Foster Prize is the ICA’s biennial for…
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…
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,…
So the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has finally replaced Beal Family Senior Curator Cheryl Brutvan after a year of searching. And it seems that their long, international search for a major curator lead them right to Boston’s ICA. It…