
Sandrine Schaefer, Acclimating to Horizontal Movement, 2015. Live action. photo by Nisa Ojalvo.
Fiber art, Black Mountain College, monumental drawings, virtuosic dance, major acquisitions, impassioned performance… 2015 had it all.
Fiber: Sculpture 1960–present charmed audiences, won awards, and brought Sheila Hicks to the museum.
Brazilian artist Adriana Varejão taught us the meaning of anthropophagy in her first solo U.S. museum show.
Artist Matthew Ritchie capped his 18-month residency at the ICA with The Long Count/The Long Game, a multimedia concert experience featuring Aaron and Bryce Dessner of The National, Kelly Deal of The Breeders, staged installations, and Tarot card readings, and a very memorable baseball bat.
The legendary Mark Morris Dance Group returned to the ICA for the first time since 2007 to present an evening of dance elaborating on musical masterpieces.
Armed with a vivid imagination and 400 Sharpies, artist Ethan Murrow created a massive seascape drawing inspired by the ICA’s own neighborhood on the museum’s sprawling Sandra and Gerald Fineberg Art Wall.