Our experience of art doesn't solely consist of the impression we get in the moment as we stand in front of a painting or sit in the audience of a performance. It's also infused with all of the prior experiences, traumas, and memories we carry with us everywhere; they continue to reverberate through our mind and inform the way we see the world well after we've left a museum or theater. Read more.
By Sasha Patkin - Tue, 08/22/2023 - 11:43am
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By adamg - Mon, 12/07/2020 - 4:24pm
By adamg - Wed, 04/22/2020 - 10:24am
WBUR reports the ICA has let its waterfront Watershed gallery be turned into a distribution point for East Boston residents in need of fresh food.
By adamg - Mon, 03/02/2020 - 11:53am
Greg Cook notes that an announcement by the mayor of Tirana about construction of a new university campus there features what's actually a photo of our ICA.
By adamg - Wed, 04/11/2018 - 11:31pm
Greg Cook reports the latest in the Nicholas Nixon saga; adds the museum seems to have deleted an online forum about the controversy.
By adamg - Sat, 08/12/2017 - 10:51am
WGBH reports on how the ICA is promising to behave and let the public continue to stroll along the harbor on land that's supposed to be open to the public even on nights when it charges guests $20 to mingle at exclusive parties there.
By adamg - Thu, 03/02/2017 - 12:03am
The New York Times report the ICA will spend $10 million to turn a condemned factory in the Boston Harbor Shipyard - which already has an artistic bent - into a new art facility to be called the Watershed.
By adamg - Fri, 07/15/2016 - 1:45pm
Everybody has their breaking point and Sebastian Smee's apparently came at an ICA exhibit that involved the artist arranging a series of monochromatic panels in a row (or sometimes just a single giant panel covering an entire wall) and Smee just loses it and symbolically throws his critic's notebook against the wall and screams "Enough with this crap already!" Only he's a well regarded critic, so he uses much longer, more erudite words.
By adamg - Mon, 03/24/2014 - 9:31am
Redsox223 took in at the Nick Cave exhibit at the ICA yesterday.
Copyright Redsox223. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
By adamg - Mon, 10/14/2013 - 9:26am
Craig Silva proposes a new home for the Hilltop Steakhouse cactus, now that the place is closing.
By adamg - Sun, 08/25/2013 - 11:53pm
Photographynatalia took in the cliff diving off the ICA today, including one jump by Superman. Most of the divers were clad more conventionally:
By adamg - Tue, 04/16/2013 - 11:17am
Both the Museum of Fine Arts and the Institute of Contemporary Art are opening their doors at no charge today. The MFA says:
We hope the Museum will be a place of respite for our community.
The ICA says:
By adamg - Sun, 08/12/2012 - 10:26am
El Planeta does some person-in-the-street interviewing about that mural, finds some folks willing to
By adamg - Fri, 01/20/2012 - 10:45am
Boston Daily totals up all the money spent on art-museum expansion in the Boston area over a decade, and comes up with a pretty large number.
By adamg - Sat, 03/27/2010 - 10:54am
Greg Cook reports the waterfront museum had to fix roof damage caused by the recent aguageddon.
By adamg - Wed, 01/13/2010 - 11:59am
Joel Brown has the latest on the local contemporary-arts musical chairs.
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