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Calling all young artists! We want your artwork to feature on our upcoming +1 Membership swag! Anyone aged 0-18 is eligible to submit for this competition. Submissions will be accepted online and in-person at the ICA through Friday, March 31st.
Learn more and submit online → https://loom.ly/13IB0p4
Photo by Lauren Miller
Next Thursday, dive into design at the ICA and come out for a creative conversation featuring designer Louise Sandhaus with Doug Scott, Anne Thompson, and Ramon Tejada. This talk is co-presented with AIGA Boston.
Tickets start at just $5! Reserve your seats → https://loom.ly/hdUVG9A
Photo by Moira Tarmy
Who is Simone Leigh? Learn more about the Golden Lion–winning artist in advance of her historical touring exhibition – featuring work from her 2022 Venice Biennale exhibition – debuting at the ICA next month. Read her in-depth profile in The New Yorker → https://loom.ly/0WldoJQ
Recognition for the American sculptor, who is representing the U.S. at the Venice Biennale, may have come late but it seems foreordained.
The times sure are changing. No, really, daylight savings begins this weekend! Halsey Rodman’s “Moon Metronome” acts as a timekeeper in the center of “Taylor Davis Selects: Invisible Ground of Sympathy,” recalling overlapping timescales such as geologic, cosmic, and granular time. Cast in iron, this metronome is inert and fixed between moments, acting as a reminder of a timescale greater than our own.
See it on view now! Plan your visit → https://loom.ly/4GfRcU0
Installation view, Taylor Davis Selects: Invisible Ground of Sympathy, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 2023–24. Photo by Mel Taing.
Next weekend, see the world-class Gibney Company take to the ICA stage with stunning works by choreographers Yin Yue, Sharon Eyal, and Johan Inger. Presented by Global Arts Live.
Reserve your seats → https://loom.ly/51CXHGA
Photo by Michael Slobodian
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Bodies Bodies Bodies! Intertwining limbs and figures writhe and twist together and dissolve into the raw, untreated canvas in "Hangin’ There, Baby" by Christina Quarles. Through her distorted, fleshy forms, Quarles explores the ambiguity of identity and evades the ascription of race, gender, and sexuality onto bodies themselves.
Throughout March, we are honoring Womens' History Month by highlighting works by women currently on view.
See "Hangin’ There, Baby" in "New on View"! Plan your visit → https://loom.ly/Lrl5ZXk
Christina Quarles, Hangin’ There, Baby, 2021. Acrylic on canvas. 77 x 96 x 2 inches (195.6 x 243.8 x 5.1 cm). Acquired through the generosity of an anonymous donor and Jeanne L. Wasserman Art Acquisition Fund. Courtesy the artist and Hauser and Wirth. © Christina Quarles
Shop, drop, and roll out for Harbor Market this Saturday! Find handmade, one-of-a-kind goods, catch live musical performances, and create and take home your own personal art piece from the Art Lab!
Plan your visit → https://loom.ly/0ltMFyA
Photo by Lauren Miller
Next weekend, Tony-winning choreographer Bill T. Jones returns to the ICA with the poignant new work “Curriculum II.” This exciting installation and performance in the round offers a unique viewing experience you won’t want to miss! Through evocative movement, “Curriculum II” explores the historical and persistent connection between race and technology and the pursuit of what is human.
Reserve your seats → https://loom.ly/4-OGWv4
Photo by Maria Baranova
See Women’s History in the making on view at the ICA! Throughout March, we are honoring Women’s History Month by highlighting works by women currently on view.
Notice anything new at the ICA? Don’t miss seeing “Sundown (Number Twelve)” installed in the third floor lobby during your ICA visit! Artist Xaviera Simmons depicts herself against a midcentury botanical backdrop wearing a floral cotton dress with a mask of indeterminate origin, holding an archival photograph of African American migrants during the Great Migration. Imbued with symbolism and layered meanings, each component of this staged portrait is tied to American chattel slavery or other historical systems of exploitation of African Americans, embedding heavy visual metaphors within lush aesthetics.
Plan your visit → https://loom.ly/Qs0ABWc
Xaviera Simmons, Sundown (Number Twelve), 2018. Installation view, Xaviera Simmons, ICA/Boston, 2023. Photo by Mel Taing.
A storm's a-brewing! Inspired by happenstance constructions in the aftermaths of storms and natural disasters, Brandon Ndife creates a sculptural environment, staging commonplace folding chairs and discarded clothing with what appears to be broken branches, mud, and puddles. Frozen in time, this arrangement of objects emphasizes a state of decay and regrowth taking place simultaneously in this environment.
"Up the creek" is now on view in our artist-curated collections show "Taylor Davis Selects: Invisible Ground of Sympathy!" Plan your visit → https://loom.ly/b08dbzs
Installation view, Taylor Davis Selects: Invisible Ground of Sympathy, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 2023–24. Photo by Mel Taing.
Go beyond the wall text and learn more about María Berrío’s stunning, large-scale paintings from the artist herself! This Sunday, dive deeper into Berrío’s meticulous process of collaging torn Japanese paper with watercolor, hear more about her influences and inspirations, and explore the intersection of reality and magic within each scene.
This drop-in gallery talk is free with museum admission, and space is limited! Plan your visit → https://loom.ly/kgP0Qdo
María Berrío, in her studio in front of The Crossing, 2023. Photo by Kyle Dorosz. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro. © Kyle Dorosz
Bibbity, bobbity, break out your dancing shoes for this magical night to remember! Next week, have a ball at First Fridays: Once Upon a Time, and enjoy a spellbinding night of dancing, drinking, contemporary art, and more!
Tickets are going fast! Reserve your spot → https://loom.ly/Z0NiEgs
Photo by Emily Tebbetts
"Berrío’s works are powerfully alluring, both in craft and sentiment: They ache with a desire for childhood to be kind and gentle, as childhood should be. Reality, often, is not so ideal." (The Boston Globe)
Witness María Berrío's moving, large-scale collage paintings, now on view! Keep reading → https://loom.ly/Jp0QfDo
María Berrío’s ‘The Children’s Crusade’ beautifully captures the grim journeys of migrant children.
Explore the wondrous, colorful worlds of “María Berrío: The Children’s Crusade,” now on view! Berrío combines legends and fantasy with contemporary issues, drawing inspiration from the history of the Children’s Crusade of 1212 to reflect on the contemporary mass movement of peoples—particularly unaccompanied minors—across borders. Witness the contact point between magic and reality in these riveting, monumental scenes!
Plan your visit → https://loom.ly/avyY4oU
María Berrío, Oda a la Esperanza (Ode to Hope), 2019. Collage with Japanese paper and watercolor on linen. 92 x 118 inches (233.7 x 299.8 cm). Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Damian Delahunty. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro. © María Berrío
Experience puppetry like never before! On Saturday, bring your little ones to the ICA for a Play Date and enjoy puppet performances, workshops, and more! Plus, walk through our family-friendly exhibition “To Begin Again: Artists and Childhood” one last time before it comes down this weekend.
Museum admission is free for families when accompanied by kids ages 12 and under! Plan your visit → https://loom.ly/si3D7uA
Photo courtesy of Sarah Nolen
This is your one week warning! See “To Begin Again: Artists and Childhood” one last time, and explore all the ways children exist, draw, express, imagine, read, experience, become, care, need, learn, play, think, teach, and are.
Plan your visit → https://loom.ly/fTZlJhg
Brian Belott, Dr. Kid President Jr., 2022. Installation view, To Begin Again: Artists and Childhood, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 2022–2023. Photo by Chris Cardoza.
Did someone say free admission? Take advantage of our free museum admission for all on Presidents' Day, and visit the ICA for free tomorrow! See our three new exhibitions and tour "To Begin Again: Artists and Childhood" one last time before it comes down this week!
Advanced timed tickets are required and available online now! Reserve your spot → https://loom.ly/08mtJk0
Photo by Lauren Miller
This is the sign that you were looking for to come work with us! From paid summer internships to part-time roles, to openings in events, education, and more, become part of the ICA today!
Check out our full list of open positions and apply now → https://loom.ly/Z18AOMs
Next Friday, ambitious storytelling and orchestra music come together in the emotionally charged concerto “HYENA” from creative husband/wife duo Georg Friedrich Haas and Mollena Lee Williams-Haas. This remarkable score accompanies Williams-Haas’ narration of her personal "hyena" in a one-night-only performance.
Reserve your spot → https://loom.ly/V4Gi_K8
Photo by Markus Sepperer
“María Berrío: The Children’s Crusade” and “New on View” are now open! Get lost in María Berrío's large-scale, dreamlike scenes drawing upon themes of migration and journey, reality and fantasy, and be amongst the first to see exciting new additions to the ICA Collection on view for the first time!
Plan your visit → https://loom.ly/LqNPqsQ
Installation view, María Berrío: The Children’s Crusade, ICA/Boston, 2023. Photo by Mel Taing.
Installation view, New on View, ICA/Boston, 2023. Photo by Mel Taing.
Preview “María Berrío: The Children’s Crusade” before it opens tomorrow! Hear from the artist herself talk about her inspirations behind her intriguing, vivid scenes with WBUR 90.9 FM. Tune in → https://loom.ly/GpMeVD4
Berrío uses collage to create scenes that teeter on the brink of reality and imagination. Her new exhibition, "The Children's Crusade," opens Feb. 16 at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art.
Roll out the red carpet! For the 16th consecutive year, the ICA presents the Oscar-nominated live-action, animated, and documentary shorts you always wish you’d seen come Oscar night. Get ready to make your predictions!
Tickets start at $5 → https://loom.ly/ULeVA3s
Still from "The Elephant Whisperers"
Discovery doesn’t end because school is out! Bring your family for February school vacation week and enjoy hands-on art-making and more! Plus catch "To Begin Again: Artists and Childhood," which includes a drawing table, reading room, and immersive family-friendly artworks, before it closes Feb 26!
All activities are free with admission, and youth 18 and under always visit for free! Plan your visit → https://loom.ly/xk4lgSE
Photo by Lauren Miller
There are as many childhoods as there are children. 🧒 Don’t miss your opportunity to explore what it means "To Begin Again" in this sweeping, colorful exhibition, closing on February 26! See childhood represented in more than 40 different ways and find something for everyone!
Plan your visit → https://loom.ly/fTZlJhg
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Ready for the ? This unique, handcrafted ceramic bowl from the “mad potter of Biloxi” George Ohr is not only super, but it is also one of more than 20,000 ceramic pieces he completed during his lifetime! Ohr’s pottery is notable for its thin walls, metallic glazes, and pinched shapes.
"Bowl" is now on view in our new exhibition "Taylor Davis Selects: Invisible Ground of Sympathy"!
George Ohr, Bowl, ca. 1900. Installation view, Taylor Davis Selects: Invisible Ground of Sympathy, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 2023–24. Photo by Mel Taing.
Bring your sweetheart to see some art! Plan a Valentine’s weekend date night at the ICA and explore our current exhibitions with love! The ICA is open late tonight until 9 PM.
Reserve your spot → https://loom.ly/SzEGjAk
Photo by Lauren Miller
For the first time at the ICA, see an artist-curated exhibition drawing from our permanent collection, now on view! Organized by the Boston-based artist, “Taylor Davis Selects: Invisible Ground of Sympathy” presents an open-floorplan gallery of artworks democratically in conversation with one another and situating the viewer at its center.
Plan your visit → https://loom.ly/b08dbzs
Installation view, Taylor Davis Selects: Invisible Ground of Sympathy, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 2023–24. Photo by Mel Taing.
It takes a village to raise a child, and artists in this gallery reflect upon the often-invisible caregiving and labor behind child rearing. Explore caretaking as an act shared in communion and consider how abilities to give care can be unequal due to gender, race, and class.
"To Begin Again: Artists and Childhood" is on view through February 26. Plan your visit → https://loom.ly/fTZlJhg
Cathy Wilkes, Untitled, 2012. Installation view, To Begin Again: Artists and Childhood, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 2022–2023. Photo by Chris Cardoza.
This Friday, don’t miss conceptual artist Suzanne Bocanegra’s exhilarating lecture-performance starring acclaimed actress Lili Taylor (Say Anything, I Shot Andy Warhol, Six Feet Under) and featuring the Lorelei Ensemble! Called "twinkly" and "enthusiastic" in Artforum's "best of 2022," “Honor” weaves storytelling with art history and theatrics while masquerading as an artist talk.
Reserve your spot to this one-night-only performance → https://loom.ly/KYDImIU
Photo by Stephanie Berger
"Whose work is valued, whose is not, and for what? 'Honor' explores these questions in personal, sometimes cheeky, and often poignant terms, and closes with a moment of irresolvable beauty that you need to see for yourself." —The Boston Globe
See the mesmerizing, one night only performance-lecture "Honor" starring acclaimed actress Lili Taylor (Say Anything, I Shot Andy Warhol, Six Feet Under) at the ICA next Friday! Learn more → https://loom.ly/ENWLJ7E
The film and stage actor plays conceptual artist Suzanne Bocanegra in the performance piece on Feb. 10.
Valentine's Day is right around the corner! Find something sweet (or not so sweet for a more black-hearted Valentine 🖤💗!) at the ICA Store. Members get 20% off — double their usual discount! — through the weekend.
Shop now → https://loom.ly/vFePTXE
The award-winning store of the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, featuring contemporary art, design objects, art books, jewelry, handmade gifts, and more.
Is it getting hot in here or is it just us? Get red hot with us this Friday, and sizzle on the dance floor for the first First Fridays of the year! Sip a spicy signature cocktail, get heated for contemporary art, catch performances and lessons from Salsa y Control Dance Studio, and show off your finest red attire on the dance floor with DJ Hernan Choque. Are you red-y?
Nonmember tickets have sold out but FREE member tickets are still available. Join now and reserve your spot → https://loom.ly/cLzkFag
Photo by Natasha Moustache
Congratulations to both Carolina Caycedo and Guadalupe Maravilla for for being named 2023 USA Fellows! USA Fellowships recognize the most compelling artists working and living in the United States, honor their creative accomplishments, and support their ongoing artistic and professional development. Caycedo presented her hanging Cosmotarrayas in a solo show at the ICA in 2020, and Maravilla will exhibit a large-scale installation centered around a “healing bus” this summer at the ICA Watershed! We look forward to seeing what you will accomplish next!
Installation view, Carolina Caycedo: Costmotarrayas, Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 2020. Photo by Charles Mayer. Courtesy of the artist. © Carolina Caycedo | Guadalupe Maravilla, Disease Thrower #14, 2021. Cast aluminum, steel tubing, assorted welded details, 86 × 143 × 79 inches (218.4 × 363.2 × 200.7 cm). Courtesy of Guadalupe Maravilla and P·P·O·W, New York. Photo by Wes Magyar. © Guadalupe Maravilla
Drawn to “To Begin Again: Artists and Childhood”? So are we! This Sunday, join us for a gallery talk with ICA Curator Ruth Erickson and dive into the diverse experiences of childhood highlighted in this exhibition.
This talk is free with admission. Plan your visit → https://loom.ly/Qri0GzY
Charles Ray, School Play (detail), 2014. Installation view, To Begin Again: Artists and Childhood, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 2022-23. Photo by Chris Cardoza.
Puppets and storytelling and art making, oh my! On Saturday, dive into the world of puppetry with Puppet Showplace Theater, and enjoy puppetry performances, interactive demonstrations, and puppet-making for all skill levels! Plus, stay for staff-led story time, and explore our current exhibitions and gallery activities designed for families with kids to work on together.
Museum admission is free for families when accompanied by kids ages 12 and under! Plan your visit → https://loom.ly/OKY4EnE
Photo by Lauren Miller
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How have artists been inspired by childhood? Curator Ruth Erickson reveals the questions behind “#ToBeginAgain: Artists and Childhood” – now on view!
We can't believe this is the last month of @LaBiennale and "Simone Leigh: Sovereignty" 🚨🚨! We've welcomed a record number of visitors at the U.S. Pavilion. Don't miss your chance to see "Cupboard" and other extraordinary works by #SimoneLeigh before November 27!
Discover a new way of looking at childhood: as creative inspiration and lens through which to examine society and the world. Explore 40 different artists’ interpretations in #ToBeginAgain: Artists and Childhood, open through February 26.
“Loophole of Retreat: Venice” is well under way! Don’t forget to tune in virtually to the last day of this historic symposium, and hear from scholars, artists, and activists from all over the world speaking on Black women’s creative and intellectual labor. Stream now → https://loom.ly/KB1aBYw
Explore "Rose B. Simpson: Legacies" with us, and witness incredible, evocative ceramic figurative sculptures, now on view!
Spend some time with the shimmering #EvaLeWitt ✨ in our lobby before it comes down in one month!
"I wanted the piece to reflect the lightness of the space and so it responds to the light in a way that works in this lobby. I kind of look at it as painting with sculpture — from certain angles and from certain sections, it reads as an abstract painting." – Eva LeWitt Spend some time with the shimmering "Untitled (Mesh Circles)" in our lobby before it comes down in one month! Plan your visit → https://loom.ly/3PN0qQA Camera by Ernesto Galan
“The notion that I’m doing this traditional craft but I’m kind of doing it wrong is kind of this metaphor for how it feels to be a diaspora. I didn’t grow up within the Palestinian culture so as much as I love the culture, I don’t get it exactly right. I’m a foreigner while I’m there, and the pieces kind of embody that.” — Jordan Nassar See the exhibition for yourself! Plan your visit → https://loom.ly/Fs9RBRY Video by Doza Visuals
This is the sign you needed to come work with us. 👀 With openings in education, events and programming, performances, and more, there are lots of ways to become part of the ICA! Check out our full list of open positions and apply now → https://loom.ly/Z18AOMs
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"There’s always an exaggeration to everything in my reality — there’s this sense of seduction and color and vibrance and drama. That’s the world I’m constantly fascinated by.” — David Antonio Cruz Go behind the scenes of #APlaceForMe on the Bloomberg Connects app and witness a vibrant world of color before it closes → https://loom.ly/KPSXv6g Video by Doza Visuals
Legends supporting legends ✨💅See #GiselaMcDaniel on view in #APlaceForMe -> https://loom.ly/xvCqLEs
Live music every week of summer! 🎤🎸🎵 Plan your visit→ https://loom.ly/Rk-O3pc
“I was looking at failure, or things that could be perceived as failure but really wasn’t that — by looking back, it really was something that got you to another place in life." —Arcmanoro Niles See it on view in "A Place For Me: Figurative Painting Now" → https://loom.ly/xvCqLEs Video by Doza Visuals
"I get up every day in the pursuit of making another contribution in the positive image that elevates and affirms the humanity of African people, and by extension, the humanity of all people." Catch up with Napoleon Jones-Henderson and catch his radiant survey exhibition at the ICA this weekend before it leaves! Plan your visit → https://loom.ly/cDZCvV0 Video by Doza Visuals
Back by popular demand! Party on the waterfront with us for First Fridays: White Hot Vol. 7! 🤍Tickets are now available to all and are always free for members! Reserve yours while they last → https://loom.ly/HZJzZ40
Let’s explore the ICA! 🤌🗺️See more in person, ✨ plan your visit → https://loom.ly/cDZCvV0
About last week... 🎶💃🍹 We had so much fun at July's First Friday! Next up, "White Hot" back for a seventh year! Reserve your tickets 🎟️ while they last → https://loom.ly/Fy9GRfI
"As I continued to think about what it meant to bear witness, I was also thinking about who comes to witness. The statement 'Men die, women cry' was a statement I would constantly be repeating." —Ebony Patterson Take a closer look behind the making of "...and the dew cracks the earth, in five acts of lamentation...between the cuts...beneath the leaves...below the soil...," now on view at the ICA Watershed. Plan your visit → https://loom.ly/MCR9gTY Video by Doza Visuals
"Work to me is that kind of dedication and pursuit where you don't get tired because you're so into the project." –Joe Wardwell Take a deep dive behind the scenes of our new exhibition "Revival: Materials and Monumental Forms" and watch the rest of our videos on the Bloomberg Connects app → https://app.bloombergconnects.org/LUfE95mi6kb Video by Doza Visuals
"When I finish a painting, I tend to think about it less in terms of 'Is it working? Is it not working?' But rather, 'Is there anything else I could do to this painting?' And if not, then it is done, and it is what it is." —Celeste Rapone Learn more about "A Place for Me" and see the rest of our videos on the Bloomberg Connects app → https://app.bloombergconnects.org/LUfE95mi6kb
“The Untitled Film Stills are, quite simply, the most important work of art that was made in the 20th century” Hear Eva Respini, ICA chief curator and a leading expert on Cindy Sherman, explain the artist's indelible influence on contemporary art, artists, and the culture at large, in conjunction with an exhibition of Sherman's work at Hauser & Wirth in New York. Check out the full video → https://loom.ly/Ufw4Q7c
“Simone Leigh’s exhibition at the U.S. Pavilion is nothing short of historic.” Go behind the scenes with the all-new body of work in “Simone Leigh: Sovereignty” for La Biennale di Venezia, and exclusive audio content available only on our digital guide through Bloomberg Connects → https://app.bloombergconnects.org/LUfE95mi6kb #SimoneLeigh #SimoneLeighVenice #BiennaleArte2022 #TheMilkofDreams #ICABoston
On April 15–17, A.I.M by Kyle Abraham performs several evocative works including "Studies on a Farewell," set to music by Sebastian Bartmann, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Nico Muhly. Get tickets--> https://bit.ly/36IfOTZ Video by Nel Shelby Productions
“My art practice always reminds me of the ultimate mirror. It’s almost like there’s always a new reflection be looked at, that it’s constantly giving me a new way to think about what I’m going through and what I can overcome.” Hear more from Raúl de Nieves next week, live at the ICA! Join us for a conversation between the artist and ICA curator Jeffrey De Blois. Reserve your spot → https://loom.ly/LnTpw-c Video by Doza Visuals
"I get up every day in the pursuit of making another contribution in the positive image that elevates and affirms the humanity of African people, and by extension, the humanity of all people." Dive into Napoleon Jones-Henderson and see the exhibition → https://loom.ly/cDZCvV0 Video by Doza Visuals
Mar 18–20 reacquiant yourself with New England dance scene when 18 artists/groups come together at the ICA. Get tickets to RDDI: New England Now Dance Platform today --> https://bit.ly/35QGq4J #DANCENewEnglandNow
Need a jolt of creative inspiration? Join us for a screening of the 2022 Oscar-Nominated Short Films at the ICA. Don't miss the live-action, animated, and documentary shorts you always wish you’d seen come Oscar night! Reserve your seats → https://loom.ly/wWGwmDo
March 24 + 25 and April 3, see the 2022 Oscar-Nominated Short Films at the ICA. Don't miss the live-action, animated, and documentary shorts you always wish you’d seen come Oscar night--> https://bit.ly/34GRKAz
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