A large industrial space is bathed in red and pink light. In the foreground are 6 video screens lying on the floor in a flower arrangement. Each shows monarch butterflies. In the background are video projections of dolphins and a standing arrangement of 9 video monitors showing a round form.

ICA Watershed

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We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85

Jun 27 – Sep 30, 2018

Harborwalk Sounds

Harborwalk Sounds

Arthur Jafa, Love is The Message, The Message is Death (still)

Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, The Message is Death

Jun 27 – Sep 30, 2018

Michelle Boulé on her knees with hands in the air

Michelle Boulé’s The Field (Work-in-process showing)

Teens performing at 2015 ICA Teen Convening

Building Brave Spaces: Mobilizing Teen Arts Education

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A kid jumping onto the dock from a water taxi while their parent also exits the water taxi and an attendant looks on

News

'These women were heroes. They worked to upend the system. They took art to places no one else did. They protested, sometimes with cunning humor. They threw conceptual grenades. They showed their own work, and in time the art world blinked awake and started exhibiting it, too,' @bostonglobe. We Wanted a Revolution is on view now at the ICA. . . . . . Installation view, “We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85, “ 2018, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. Photo by Charles Mayer. #ICAboston #WWAR #blackradicalwomen #heros #contemporaryart #boston #bosarts #wewantedarevolution #brooklynmuseum #art #museums #seaport #waterfront #onview #bostonblogger #feminist #feminist

DJ Jazzy Jeff taking over the turntables at the ICA tonight!! . . . . 📷 by @hannahroseosofsky #icaboston #djjazzyjeff #summertime #icalive #djnights #boston #bosarts #contemporaryart #waterfront #seaport #icasummer #fridaynight

Dreaming of a waterfront weekend? 🌊 In her moving-image work, Pipilotti Rist creates visually charged environments characterized by lush color and distorted, fragmented imagery. “Remake of the Weekend (Stills)” capture Rist’s expansive and seductive use of color and perspective. . . . . Pipolotti Rist, “Remake of the Weekend (Stills),” 1998 (detail). Silver dye bleach print (Ilfochromes), ten parts, each 19 1/2 × 25 3/4 inches (49.5 × 65.4 cm). Gift of Sandra and Gerald Fineberg. © Pipolotti Rist #icaboston #icacollection #pipilottirist #contemporaryart #boston #bosarts #weekend #weekender #art #photography #movingimage #goddard #lush

Some sound advice on how to be an artist from a few members of the ICA’s Artist Advisory Council!