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

People dancing outside at night at the ICA.

Culture Club (Part 3)

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

Harborwalk Sounds

Harborwalk Sounds

DANCE_Summer Stages_Will Rawls Open Rehearsal

Will Rawls Open Rehearsal

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

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A “crucial ode to black America,” —@newyorkermag. See Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, The Message is Death on view now at the ICA. . . . . . Arthur Jafa, “Love is the Message, The Message is Death (still),” 2016. Courtesy the artist and Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York/Rome. Photo by Charles Mayer Photography. © Arthur Jafa #ICAboston #ArthurJafa #onview #love #message #death #contemporaryart #boston #bosarts #ode #waterfront #seaport #art #video #contemporaryvideo #videoinstallation

“The American Library,” an incredible installation by Yinka Shonibare, is made up of 6,000 books with names of first and second generation immigrants, as well as those who migrated north during the Great Migration. Coming to ICA/Boston next year! . . . . . Picture by ICA Chief Curator Eva Respini (@curator_on_the_run) #fronttriennial @fronttriennial #icaboston #contemporaryart #YinkaShonibare #comingsoon #sneakpeek #immigration #american #library #boston #bosarts #installation #art #itweetmuseums #bostonblogger #books #bookstagram #migration

The photographs of Shellburne Thurber most frequently show unpopulated houses and rooms. Although the interiors are devoid of people, Thurber is interested in the ways they bear the presence of their occupants. “I became intrigued,” she says, “by the uncanny way in which inhabited spaces take on the energy of those who live and work in them.” This work, Aunt Anna’s House—Stripped: The Pink Study, shows a room in the New Hampshire house owned by Thurber’s aunt Anna. After Anna died, Thurber took a series of photographs of the house’s empty rooms, the sites of numerous childhood memories. . . . . . Shellburne Thurber, Aunt Anna’s House—Stripped: The Pink Study, 1989. Chromogenic color print, 33 x 41 inches (83.8 x 104.1 cm). Gift of Barbara Lee, The Barbara Lee Collection of Art by Women. © Shellburne Thurber #icaboston #icacollection #shellburnethurber #contemporaryart #photography #boston #bosarts #itweetmuseums #uncanny

See Arthur Jafa’s 'justly celebrated short video,' (@nytimes) Love is the Message, The Message is Death, on view now at the ICA. See it through Sep 30. . . . . . Arthur Jafa, “Love is the Message, The Message is Death (still),” 2016. Courtesy the artist and Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York/Rome. © Arthur Jafa #ICABoston #ArthurJafa #video #contemporaryart #boston #bosarts #onview #bostonblogger #art #love #message #death #onview #notoriousbig #bedstuy