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Mon, Sep 3, 2018, 10 AM – 5 PM
In honor of Labor Day the ICA is offering FREE admission for all on Monday, September 3. Art-making In Hybrid-Digital Home New York-based artist Saya Woolfalk has collaborated with her six-year-old daughter, Aya Woolfalk Mitchell, to reinvent the...More
Jun 1 – Oct 14, 2001
A series of meeting houses in the Charlestown Navy Yard, African Meeting House, Old South Meeting House, Paul Revere House, and Copp’s Hill Burying Ground honoring the role these sites played during the American Revolution and Abolition...More
Sat, May 27, 2017
This Teen Convening: Brooklyn was amazing because the program in all of its sections and parts was led by young people. This created a space where all the participants, including performers, could interact in a safe, positive environment, free from judgement. However, the most important impact the Teen Convening: Brooklyn had on me,was the fact that this convening was able to bring different amazing people, with different backgrounds, talent, passions, and creativity all to share their work and learn from each other. This was special, because throughout the entire Teen Convening even though there was so much diversity, and different people in different stages of their lives, there was a unity that brought all of us together despite our differences, thus creating connections, and network between all the young people who participated in the event.More
May 22 – Sep 7, 2020
In summer 2020, the ICA Watershed will feature a newly commissioned, monumental sculpture by acclaimed artist Firelei Báez. In her largest sculptural installation to date, the artist reimagines the archeological ruins of the Sans-Souci Palace...More
The artist’s first Boston presentation features widely acclaimed video installation This June, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA) opens Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, The Message is Death (2016), a masterful video installation...More
Oct 1, 2014 – Jan 4, 2015
Fiber: Sculpture 1960–present is the first exhibition in 40 years to examine the development of abstraction and dimensionality in fiber art from the mid-twentieth century through to the present. Read moreMore
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Nancy Spero
Throughout her more than sixty years as an artist, Nancy Spero maintained a commitment to socially and politically engaged art. In her paintings, collages, prints, drawings, and murals, she expressed stances that were antiwar, antiviolence, and most...More
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Pipilotti Rist
In her moving-image work, Pipilotti Rist creates visually charged environments characterized by lush color and distorted, fragmented imagery. Building narrative through layers of video and sound, Rist blurs the boundaries between visual art and...More
Jul 31 – Oct 27, 2013
The first thing you’ll notice is the eyes. Whether goggled, bug-like, or comic strip–esque, the eyes are obscured. But behind Mary Reid Kelley’s signature prosthetics, the characters see—and say—very much. Composed of...More