ICA News
Boston Globe: ICA effort raises $25m as museum looks to future (1//11)
The Institute of Contemporary Art, just five years after opening its first permanent home, is flexing its newfound financial muscle. The ICA will announce today that it has raised $25 million toward $50 million campaign, the bulk of which will dramatically boost its endowment. article>>
Boston Globe: A beacon among its contemporaries (9/11/11)
The Institute of Contemporary Art is celebrating its 75th anniversary this fall, and plans to do so in style. Anniversaries come and go. But for a gallery devoted to showing challenging new art by living artists, three quarters of a century is an impressive milestone. article>>
New York Times: Teenage curators at the Institute of Contemporary Art (3/17/11)
"Four times a year the Institute of Contemporary Art here turns itself over to a group that is typically loath to spend Friday night at a museum: teenagers. While the move might raise some eyebrows — backpacks! cellphones! loud voices! — it is part of a concerted effort at the I.C.A. to attract, educate and hand responsibility over to teenagers." article>>
Boston Globe editorial: Still a work in progress (3/6/11)
"The museum has struck an impressive balance between featuring up-and-coming artists and mid-career retrospectives. And by earning positive nods from curators and publications around the world, the museum is growing into its role of ambassador for [Boston's] art scene." article>>
Boston Globe editorial: The ICA begins a conversation (12/20/2010)
"The Institute of Contemporary Art deserves credit for screening David Wojnarowicz’s “Fire in My Belly’’ two weeks after the National Portrait Gallery buckled to pressure and pulled the video from an exhibition focused on the history of gay and lesbian portraiture in America."article>>
Boston Globe: Offensive? ICA lets the public decide (12/16/2010)
"The Institute of Contemporary Art has joined dozens of cultural institutions across the country screening [David Wojnarowicz's film] “A Fire In My Belly’’ to speak out against censorship." article>>
Culture, atmosphere draw crowds to the waterfront (9/4/2010)
“The arrival of the Institute of Contemporary Art on Fan Pier in 2006, coupled with more recent developments such as the nearby opening of Louis Boston, has helped reacquaint Bostonians with the waterfront…” article>>
Boston 101: Contemporary cool (9/5/2010)
“Museums typically take us back in time, to an era of powder wigs, traditional sumo, or hieroglyphics in stone. The Institute of Contemporary Art seems to aim for the opposite effect.” article>>
The Boston Globe hails Hanging Fire as treasure of local museum collections (6/8/2010)
"In the three-plus years since its painstaking installation at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Cornelia Parker’s 'Hanging Fire (Suspected Arson)'’ has become one of the most popular pieces of contemporary art on view in this city." article>>
Boston Globe: ICA hires Harvard museum’s Molesworth (1/13/2010)
"Helen Molesworth arrived in Boston eager to build an ambitious contemporary-art program at a new museum. Now she’ll finally be able to get started. Molesworth will move from the Harvard Art Museum, which has indefinitely postponed plans to build a new museum for contemporary and modern art, to the Institute of Contemporary Art. She will serve as the ICA’s chief curator starting Feb. 22." article>>
New York Times Calls ICA "a Stunning Landmark of the New Boston" (1/1/10)
"This glass-and-steel cube makes looking at the water as much a part of the experience as the exhibits inside, and has transformed this formerly desolate slice of South Boston waterfront since its opening three years ago." article>>
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