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See this film retrospective: Films Of Isaac Julien @ the ICA

Looking for Langston (1989) Before there was Steve McQueen, director of Shame, there was another British Turner Prize-winning artist making provocative, innovative, non-compromising films. Isaac...
By Peter Keough | January 28, 2012

Review: The best of the Ottawa International Animation Film Festival

The Canadians produce the best animation programs and prove it again with this international selection.
Canadian animations
By PEG ALOI | January 27, 2012

A strong season of dance and song

From the comic to the sublime, with a dash of flamenco, the winter season has it all.
Ten to grow on
By DEBRA CASH | December 30, 2011

Boston arts institutions flexed their muscles in 2011

The following rundown of the best art exhibits of 2011 shows how greater Boston is now consistently offering some of the richest institutional art exhibition programs in the country.
Boom town!
By GREG COOK | December 23, 2011

See this film program: Award Winning British Commercials 2010 @ the ICA

The ICA follows up last week's "The Art and Technique of the American Commercial" with "Award-Winning British Commercials 2010". If you've occasionally been amused by...
By Alexandra Cavallo | December 03, 2011

See this film program: The Art And Technique of the American Commercial @ the ICA

Sometimes it seems like the only thing worth watching on TV these days are the ads. Here's a chance to watch a bunch of the...
By Peter Keough | November 30, 2011

Gallim Dance's Blush

You don't want to take the title of Gallim Dance's Blush too seriously — at least not if you're expecting embarrassment, shame, modesty, confusion, those textbook signifiers of someone who'd like to creep away and hide.
Sex wars
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL | October 28, 2011

'Dance/Draw' at the ICA

When the Institute of Contemporary Art hired Helen Molesworth away from Harvard in 2010, it seemed like the ICA's new chief curator might fill a big gap at the institution: the ability to put together strong theme exhibits.
Line dancing
By GREG COOK | October 21, 2011

Slideshow: ''Dance/Draw'' exhibit at the ICA

The Institute of Contemporary Art hosts the the "Dance/Draw" exhibit from October 7, 2011 through January 16, 2012.
The Institute of Contemporary Art | Through January 16, 2012
By PHOENIX STAFF | October 21, 2011

Bodies Moving: Boston’s 10 best fall dance events

Kayaking the Arctic, celebrating life across atolls, and finding the ways the artist's hand and dancer's body intersect, this season of dance offers audiences a varied journey.
A season of terpsichorean delights
By DEBRA CASH | September 16, 2011

Swoon indoors and out

Swoon is one of the most celebrated street artists in the US, so why does her wall of bugs and monsters inside the Institute of Contemporary Art feel so meh?
Street cred
By GREG COOK | September 16, 2011

Autumn blossoms: Our 10 most anticipated art shows this fall

This fall is a season of celebrations and new beginnings as the Museum of Fine Arts opens its new contemporary art wing, the Institute of Contemporary Art turns 75, the Addison Gallery reopens after fixing its roof, and Brandeis's Rose Art Museum re
This season, the galleries are filled with light shows, monster rock and roll, and naked ladies
By GREG COOK | September 16, 2011

Photos: Swoon Art Wall at the ICA

The Institute of Contemporary Art hosts a long-term art wall installation by Swoon, a.ka. Caledonia Curry.
Art Wall Installation | Institute of Contemporary Art
By JOEL VEAK | September 02, 2011

Swoon takes her street art to the ICA 'Wall'

Part punk-rock activist, part classically trained artist, Swoon, a/k/a Caledonia Curry, has sailed the Mississippi with a merry gang on homemade rafts and created earthquake-resistant structures for Haiti.
Going inside
By THOMAS PAGE MCBEE | September 02, 2011

Developing dances at the ICA

Summer Stages Dance wrapped its 14th season Saturday afternoon at the Institute of Contemporary Art with a presentation by four choreographers who've been working with the students at Concord Academy through July.
Summer summary
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL | August 05, 2011

Slideshow: ''Eva Hesse Studiowork'' at the ICA; Tory Fair's ''Testing a World View (Again)'' at the deCordova

This slideshow accompanies Greg Cook's review of "Eva Hesse Studiowork" at the ICA through October 10, 2011, and Tory Fair's “Testing a World View (Again)" at the deCordova Sculpture Park through April 29, 2012.
"Eva Hesse Studiowork" through October 10, 2011 | ''Testing a World View (Again)'' through April 29, 2012
By PHOENIX STAFF | July 29, 2011

Eva Hesse at the ICA and Tory Fair at the deCordova

Hesse's ability to imbue her art with body and blood and gravity anticipated the kinder, gentler minimalism of today's Anish Kapoor, Rachel Whiteread, and Roni Horn, as well as the fleshy fairy-tale figures of Kiki Smith. Boston sculptor Tory Fair has d
Women's work
By GREG COOK | July 29, 2011

The ICA urges examination of disaster

Disasters are innately mysterious. They are never pleasant, but nonetheless almost always compelling.
State of catastrophe
By NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | July 22, 2011

Photos: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company at the ICA

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company presents an alumni reunion show at the ICA theater on July 15, 2011.
Institute of Contemporary Art | July 15, 2011
By JOEL VEAK | July 22, 2011

The Floordlords celebrate 30 years

B-boys — b-girls had scant presence on this program — have gone commercial, but today's freestyle breaking technique builds on moves cut three decades ago (although a grainy Floordlords video indicates that the current generation has discarded stirrup
Hip-hop heaven
By DEBRA CASH | July 01, 2011

This Week in Geek June 6-12: Featuring a Number of Pleasant Opportunities to Dress Up in Ridiculous Costumes

If you found last week's events too high-minded and cultural, then do we have news for you! This week's, we give you a multitude of...
By Kelly Dickinson | June 06, 2011

June 9 | Keren Ann at the Institute of Contemporary Art

Musicians aren't the first artists we expect to find featured in a museum, except in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. (Although anyone with...
By Scott Kearnan | May 30, 2011

The Boston Cyberarts Fest needs a reboot

It's a quiet morning along the Rose Kennedy Greenway when I meet Mark Skwarek — a shaggy-haired New Yorker in a Spider-Man T-shirt and Puma sneakers — to check out his latest project, Occupation Forces.
Control-Alt-Delete
By GREG COOK | May 06, 2011

Merge ahead

Photo: JULIETA CERVANTES Citywide festivals are often exercises in excess, whether you're talking SXSW (so many bands, so many stages, too little time) or gay...
By Scott Kearnan | May 02, 2011

Catherine Opie and 'The Record' at the ICA

Catherine Opie first became known in the early '90s for blunt lesbian self-portraits and posed photos of the queer community.
Bearing witness and baring vinyl
By GREG COOK | April 29, 2011

Wax Museum

If you don't cringe, at least a little bit and maybe a lot, when you see Sean Duffy's Burn Out Sun (2003) — a sculptural starburst of crisscrossing LPs bearing the immortal Sun Records label — then you probably aren't much of a record fan.
Cringe worthy
By CARLY CARIOLI | April 15, 2011

Let the record show

We revere vinyl records. Cassette tapes? Screw them. As soon as they were passé, we threw them into the neighborhood rummage sale without shedding a...
By Scott Kearnan | April 04, 2011

Cambridge author Caleb Neelon traces graffiti's hidden history

'TAKI 183' SPAWNS PEN PALS, announced the headline in the July 21, 1971, New York Times .
It was written
By GREG COOK | April 01, 2011

Philadanco brings the funk

The four pieces on Philadanco's program last weekend at the Institute of Contemporary Art had different accouterments — musical, scenic, philosophical — but they still looked very much alike.
Ferocious euphoria
By MARCIA B.SIEGEL | March 18, 2011

Review: Video art meets minor-league hockey

Last Tuesday the crowd at the Portland Pirates game against Worcester sipped soda and munched on pretzels and popcorn as Canadian artist Graeme Patterson's two-minute video "Ten Point Game" was announced.
Codes of play
By ANNIE LARMON | March 11, 2011

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