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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 Emma KranerFebruary 12, 2018 0

Intimate Exposures: Nicholas Nixon at the ICA

Photographer Nicholas Nixon’s exhibition, Persistence of Vision, centers around one of his most renowned series. The Brown Sisters began with an accidental discovery, not in the way of technique, but by capturing an image that proved worthy of recreating yearly…

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By Josh FischerJune 6, 2017 0

Piecing Things Together: Nari Ward at the ICA

Walking into Nari Ward’s retrospective Sun Splashed at the ICA Boston, you are greeted with calypso music piping out of a bright yellow bodega awning that reads HAPPY SMILERS in kitschy font. Hanging bottles of colorful Tropical Fantasy fruit soda…

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By Megan GregoryJanuary 24, 2017 0

A Second Look at First Light: A Decade of Collecting at the ICA

The anniversary exhibition First Light: A Decade of Collecting at the ICA is composed of four small shows that are individually arranged by the Museum’s curators. Partway through the exhibit’s run, two of these and one of the video installations…

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By Megan GregoryOctober 5, 2016 2

Laying a Foundation: First Light: A Decade of Collecting at the ICA

In First Light: A Decade of Collecting at the ICA, the Museum reframes its own history by showcasing the stories within its collection. The ICA was established in 1936. Yet it only started collecting artworks ten years ago, which coincided with…

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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 Jonathan TalitMay 24, 2016 0

The Writing on the Wall: Walid Raad at the ICA, Boston

“Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.” – Naomi Wolf For an exhibition centered on information, I certainly didn’t feel informed…

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By Céline BrowningJune 8, 2015 0

2015 Foster Prize Interviews: Ricardo De Lima

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

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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 Stephanie ArnettDecember 19, 2013 0

Review: LaToya Ruby Frazier: WITNESS

Forget objectivity; LaToya Ruby Frazier is an activist at heart. Frazier operates on the inside, and her photography cannot be adequately judged within the category of journalism. Although her photographs invite comparison to the iconic WPA photographs of Dorothea Lange…

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By Evan F. SmithOctober 16, 2013 0

Queering the ICA

It’s been a long time coming, but the ICA is beginning to show its true colors. The last few years have seen solo exhibitions by a strong number of female artists, a great many queer artists and people of color,…

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By Leah Triplett HarringtonOctober 3, 2013 0

Amy Sillman: one lump or two

It’s hard to believe, but Amy Sillman: one lump or two, opening today at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, is Sillman’s first museum survey show. Comprising over 90 of Sillman’s paintings, drawings, ‘zines and films, one lump or two resists…

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By Anulfo BaezJune 6, 2013 0

The Foster Prize: Luther Price

Price with #9 A Study in Decay at the Institute of Contemporary Art. Photo: John Kennard. Some of my fondest memories during my college years can be traced back to my art and architectural history courses, sitting in a…

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By Stephanie CardonJune 5, 2013 0

The Foster Prize: Mark Cooper

It is curious that Mark Cooper’s work, which is the most visually and spatially boisterous, the most materially lustful (though not the most fetishistic) of the four finalists’, is that which directly references Buddhist cultures, concepts and practices of…

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By Leah Triplett HarringtonJune 4, 2013 0

The Foster Prize: Katarina Burin

At first glance, Katarina Burin’s installation in this year’s Foster Prize looks out of place within the ICA’s sterile, white gallery space.Hotel Nord-Sud 1932-34: Design and Correspondence (2013) is centered around Petra Andrejova-Molnár, a female Czechoslovakian architect active during the…

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By John PyperJune 3, 2013 0

The Foster Prize: Sarah Bapst

Sarah Bapst’s work is compact, unhurried, and subtle. It is the opposite of the work in the joke that named Big Red & Shiny.1 Being the quiet person in the room can be a hard road though. From the…

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By Leah Triplett HarringtonApril 27, 2013 0

Doris Salcedo at Harvard Art Museums

Just before her lecture last Tuesday night at Harvard Art Museum, Doris Salcedo sat in the last row of a lecture hall in Sackler, starring off into space. She seemed unaware of the burgeoning crowd, lost in thought, present in…

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By Stephanie CardonApril 7, 2013 0

#FrameClusterFriday: Barry McGee at the ICA

When the work of a former graffiti artist enters the hallowed white box of a museum, almost inevitably there will be cries of “Judas.” Yet another in the ICA Boston’s string of exhibitions dedicated to street, or “outsider” artists, Barry…

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