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REOPENING March 20

The ICA is currently closed to the public but will reopen to the public on March 20. Timed tickets are required and go on sale March 12. Members get early access! Learn more

Continue to connect to art and artists remotely with virtual programs, at-home art activities for kids and families, and by shopping online at the ICA Store.   

Friday Art Notes

Weekly personal reflections on art shown at the ICA

  • A diptych of color portrait photographs of a young woman with pale skin and shoulder-length dark hair, one in a black tank top, one in military uniform.

    Friday Art Notes: Evgenya

    Montgomery Alcott
    Oct 23, 2020
  • A large dark frame contains 9 separate collages, in three rows, some mounted on fluorescent paper.

    Friday Art Notes: HRG Suite

    Kyle Kittredge
    Oct 9, 2020
  • Ana Mendieta, Silueta Works in Mexico, 1973–1977

    Friday Art Notes: Silueta Works in Mexico

    Jeffrey De Blois
    Sep 25, 2020
  • A horizontal artwork of copperish brown swirling together with a lighter neutral color. Medium is not apparent.

    Friday Art Notes: Alabaster SR08-2

    Naomi Mirny
    Sep 11, 2020
  • Nari Ward, Savior, 1996

    Friday Art Notes: Savior

    Mehtap Yagci
    Aug 14, 2020
  • A tall, slender sculpture in white wood of an abstracted figure with carved rounded shapes at the top and a navel-like depression near the midpoint.

    Friday Art Notes: Louise Bourgeois, Untitled

    Carol Jensen
    Jul 24, 2020
  • Josiah McElheny, Czech Modernism Mirrored and Reflected Infinitely, 2005

    Friday Art Notes: Czech Modernism Mirrored and Reflected Infinitely

    Bob Hall
    Jul 17, 2020
  • A color photograph depicts a snapshot of a Black man standing in a yard lying, on top of a page from a textbook showing a photo of Walter Cronkite next to a map of South America, displayed flat on a wooden floor.

    Friday Art Notes: Riffs on Real Time

    Eva Respini
    Jul 10, 2020
  • A sculpture composed of a colorful costume covering the body of a mannequin a chandelier-like headpiece decorated with ceramic birds and strings of beads.

    Friday Art Notes: Soundsuit

    Juan Omar Rodriguez
    Jun 26, 2020
  • A matte black ceramic object in the shape of a shallow dish with unidentifiable contents and a scattering of red accents.

    Friday Art Notes: Basin Theology/La Brea 2

    Sergio Salicio-Lupianez
    May 29, 2020
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    Friday Art Notes: Undammed
    /Desbloqueada

    Nemo Xu
    May 22, 2020
  • SELF Ol Bay install Charles Mayer

    Friday Art Notes: Ol’ Bay

    Kelly Chen
    May 15, 2020
  • A sculpture made of bundles of yellow-colored linen and wool thread piled on a large white platform.

    Friday Art Notes: Banisteriopsis II

    Colette Randall
    May 8, 2020
  • Robert Pruitt, Woman with X-Patterned Dress (After Bill Traylor), 2007

    Friday Art Notes: Woman with X-Patterned Dress (After Bill Traylor)

    Ruth Quattlebaum
    May 1, 2020
  • An artwork created of fabric and threads depicts a stylized male figure holding a beer stands wide-legged in front of a yellow wall reading "DELI".

    Friday Art Notes: Lite

    Gregg Handorff
    Apr 24, 2020
  • One three-dimensional oblong form sits stacked askew on top of another. The top for is translucent yellow with swirls of red that appear to be rising up. The bottom form appears to be a wooden box painted yellow, with the letters WS ROLLING hand-drawn on the side in red.

    Friday Art Notes: ACTS/WS ROLLIN

    Brittany Eckstrom
    Apr 17, 2020
  • Three women in dark clothing move around a room lined on one side by mirrors that distort their reflections. In the foreground, a young woman faces the viewer with arms stretched in a Y position.

    Friday Art Notes: City of Abstracts

    Sarah Hachey
    Apr 10, 2020
  • CAYCEDO_Nuestro Tiempo_MG_5002-Installation_view_by_Mel-Taing.jpg

    Friday Art Notes: Nuestro Tiempo/ Our Time

    Katherine Gudiel
    Mar 26, 2020
  • COLLECTION_Beyond Infinity Kusama - Binion and Gilbert & George

    Friday Art Notes: Route One: Box Two: V

    Anni Pullagura
    Mar 20, 2020
  • Ana Mendieta, Silueta Works in Mexico, 1973–1977

    Friday Art Notes: Silueta Works in Mexico

    Emily Mogavero
    Mar 20, 2020

Now more than ever

Your support of the ICA and the communities and artists we serve is deeply appreciated in this time of uncertainty.
If you are able, please consider becoming a member or making a one-time gift to the ICA Fund.

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