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

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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

'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