The museum hopes to take on what's called “curatorial-led strategies” to drive its collection moving forward.“We’re broadening the conversation, bringing in artists that are not in the community,” she says. Jul 21, 2014. “No artist works in a vacuum, no artist is a genius thinking genius thoughts alone. It’s the kind of work that sits well within a public institution where larger publics can come and enjoy and read and think on it,” she says.While the majority of the pieces in the collection start in the 1980s, there are notably a few “historically significant” works. “We need to represent artists that aren't collected by people in Boston and by our trustees.”.She says to expect to continue seeing experimental new works in touring shows, but to be on the lookout for large-scale works like video installations that would be too large in a conventional collection.“We’re about to become teenagers, I guess. ICA is working with a commercial service provider to provide collection services at alternate sites. If you’ve been in Boston a while, you may remember the Institute of Contemporary Art (or ICA) when it was nestled next to the firehouse on Boylston Street. We are now accepting online orders and are grateful for your support. Back then, the institute was known for its temporary exhibitions.But 10 years ago the ICA moved to the Seaport District, which allowed the museum to shift gears, show larger-scale exhibitions, and begin acquiring a permanent collection.To celebrate its anniversary, the ICA is showing off nearly half of its now-242-piece collection in an exhibition named “.“What this show does is provide the narrative threads to look back a little bit to understand that artists working today are not working in isolation, but really in conversation with the artists that came before them,” says Eva Respini, the ICA's chief curator.Of the 100 pieces in the show, half are on display at the ICA for the first time. Many employ everyday materials such as pins, glass, and wood, transcending their original function to suggest new material associations.Boston, The Institute of Contemporary Art 25 Harbor Shore Dr. Others use found objects and images to investigate socio-political contexts, creating new narratives for those objects.Yet other artists probe the complex relationship of rendering three-dimensional forms in two-dimensional moving and still image. You can also find our New Catalogue. A list of participating SingPost outlets is available here. If you have any questions, please contact us. There will be a service fee payable to SingPost for the successful collection of each ICA document at designated post offices. "Hanging Fire" was the first piece promised to the ICA's collection 10 years ago and is what Respini calls “a signature" of the collection.Compare this piece’s long history at the ICA to one of the museum’s newest acquisitions: Kara Walker's hand-cut silhouettes, which has.A meditation on the characters and meaning of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” Respini says it’s a commentary on racism and gender discrimination.“For me, this is an incredibly powerful piece. I think that’s what the ICA does best.”. I think it has resonance today as we think about violence, both within the U.S. and outside of the U.S., especially racially fueled violence," she says. Sculpture today is an expansive medium that includes a range of phenomena, forms, techniques, and materials; the category includes discrete objects, installations, staged video displays, and even performance. This display of collection works brings together pieces by a variety of artists who have used commonplace materials in new ways. ICA Members receive 10% off all purchases with the code Members10! Almost a third of the collection is dedicated to sculpture.Respini says the ICA is using this moment to look ahead. Welcome back to the ICA Store! The award-winning store of the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, featuring contemporary art, design objects, art books, jewelry, handmade gifts, and more. Close menu. Included will be works from Mark Bradford, Taylor Davis, Tara Donovan, Kader Attia, Rachel Harrison, Charles LeDray, Roy McMakin, and Josiah McElheny, among others.This display of collection works brings together pieces by a variety of artists who have used commonplace materials in new ways. Your spouse calls it junk. The award-winning store of the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, featuring contemporary art, design objects, art books, jewelry, handmade gifts, and more. Respini tells me the artist created this out of remains from an actual case of suspected arson.“Parker is an artist that takes everyday materials, mundane materials, and transforms them into something incredible and beautiful,” Respini says. All artists come from a lineage of those that came before them and I think a collection can provide that context to contemporary programming.”.For an institution that only recently adopted a collection, the 1966 piece shows the ICA's intent to provide context, giving audiences a lesson in the history of art in the present.So why, in 2006 — after 70 years in existence, 12 different homes ranging from Newbury Street to Lower Allston and countless out-of-the-ordinary contemporary, temporary exhibitions — did the ICA begin a collection?Pieces by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Andy Warhol came and went. "/>
The museum hopes to take on what's called “curatorial-led strategies” to drive its collection moving forward.“We’re broadening the conversation, bringing in artists that are not in the community,” she says. Jul 21, 2014. “No artist works in a vacuum, no artist is a genius thinking genius thoughts alone. It’s the kind of work that sits well within a public institution where larger publics can come and enjoy and read and think on it,” she says.While the majority of the pieces in the collection start in the 1980s, there are notably a few “historically significant” works. “We need to represent artists that aren't collected by people in Boston and by our trustees.”.She says to expect to continue seeing experimental new works in touring shows, but to be on the lookout for large-scale works like video installations that would be too large in a conventional collection.“We’re about to become teenagers, I guess. ICA is working with a commercial service provider to provide collection services at alternate sites. If you’ve been in Boston a while, you may remember the Institute of Contemporary Art (or ICA) when it was nestled next to the firehouse on Boylston Street. We are now accepting online orders and are grateful for your support. Back then, the institute was known for its temporary exhibitions.But 10 years ago the ICA moved to the Seaport District, which allowed the museum to shift gears, show larger-scale exhibitions, and begin acquiring a permanent collection.To celebrate its anniversary, the ICA is showing off nearly half of its now-242-piece collection in an exhibition named “.“What this show does is provide the narrative threads to look back a little bit to understand that artists working today are not working in isolation, but really in conversation with the artists that came before them,” says Eva Respini, the ICA's chief curator.Of the 100 pieces in the show, half are on display at the ICA for the first time. Many employ everyday materials such as pins, glass, and wood, transcending their original function to suggest new material associations.Boston, The Institute of Contemporary Art 25 Harbor Shore Dr. Others use found objects and images to investigate socio-political contexts, creating new narratives for those objects.Yet other artists probe the complex relationship of rendering three-dimensional forms in two-dimensional moving and still image. You can also find our New Catalogue. A list of participating SingPost outlets is available here. If you have any questions, please contact us. There will be a service fee payable to SingPost for the successful collection of each ICA document at designated post offices. "Hanging Fire" was the first piece promised to the ICA's collection 10 years ago and is what Respini calls “a signature" of the collection.Compare this piece’s long history at the ICA to one of the museum’s newest acquisitions: Kara Walker's hand-cut silhouettes, which has.A meditation on the characters and meaning of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” Respini says it’s a commentary on racism and gender discrimination.“For me, this is an incredibly powerful piece. I think that’s what the ICA does best.”. I think it has resonance today as we think about violence, both within the U.S. and outside of the U.S., especially racially fueled violence," she says. Sculpture today is an expansive medium that includes a range of phenomena, forms, techniques, and materials; the category includes discrete objects, installations, staged video displays, and even performance. This display of collection works brings together pieces by a variety of artists who have used commonplace materials in new ways. ICA Members receive 10% off all purchases with the code Members10! Almost a third of the collection is dedicated to sculpture.Respini says the ICA is using this moment to look ahead. Welcome back to the ICA Store! The award-winning store of the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, featuring contemporary art, design objects, art books, jewelry, handmade gifts, and more. Close menu. Included will be works from Mark Bradford, Taylor Davis, Tara Donovan, Kader Attia, Rachel Harrison, Charles LeDray, Roy McMakin, and Josiah McElheny, among others.This display of collection works brings together pieces by a variety of artists who have used commonplace materials in new ways. Your spouse calls it junk. The award-winning store of the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, featuring contemporary art, design objects, art books, jewelry, handmade gifts, and more. Respini tells me the artist created this out of remains from an actual case of suspected arson.“Parker is an artist that takes everyday materials, mundane materials, and transforms them into something incredible and beautiful,” Respini says. All artists come from a lineage of those that came before them and I think a collection can provide that context to contemporary programming.”.For an institution that only recently adopted a collection, the 1966 piece shows the ICA's intent to provide context, giving audiences a lesson in the history of art in the present.So why, in 2006 — after 70 years in existence, 12 different homes ranging from Newbury Street to Lower Allston and countless out-of-the-ordinary contemporary, temporary exhibitions — did the ICA begin a collection?Pieces by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Andy Warhol came and went. ">
The museum hopes to take on what's called “curatorial-led strategies” to drive its collection moving forward.“We’re broadening the conversation, bringing in artists that are not in the community,” she says. Jul 21, 2014. “No artist works in a vacuum, no artist is a genius thinking genius thoughts alone. It’s the kind of work that sits well within a public institution where larger publics can come and enjoy and read and think on it,” she says.While the majority of the pieces in the collection start in the 1980s, there are notably a few “historically significant” works. “We need to represent artists that aren't collected by people in Boston and by our trustees.”.She says to expect to continue seeing experimental new works in touring shows, but to be on the lookout for large-scale works like video installations that would be too large in a conventional collection.“We’re about to become teenagers, I guess. ICA is working with a commercial service provider to provide collection services at alternate sites. If you’ve been in Boston a while, you may remember the Institute of Contemporary Art (or ICA) when it was nestled next to the firehouse on Boylston Street. We are now accepting online orders and are grateful for your support. Back then, the institute was known for its temporary exhibitions.But 10 years ago the ICA moved to the Seaport District, which allowed the museum to shift gears, show larger-scale exhibitions, and begin acquiring a permanent collection.To celebrate its anniversary, the ICA is showing off nearly half of its now-242-piece collection in an exhibition named “.“What this show does is provide the narrative threads to look back a little bit to understand that artists working today are not working in isolation, but really in conversation with the artists that came before them,” says Eva Respini, the ICA's chief curator.Of the 100 pieces in the show, half are on display at the ICA for the first time. Many employ everyday materials such as pins, glass, and wood, transcending their original function to suggest new material associations.Boston, The Institute of Contemporary Art 25 Harbor Shore Dr. Others use found objects and images to investigate socio-political contexts, creating new narratives for those objects.Yet other artists probe the complex relationship of rendering three-dimensional forms in two-dimensional moving and still image. You can also find our New Catalogue. A list of participating SingPost outlets is available here. If you have any questions, please contact us. There will be a service fee payable to SingPost for the successful collection of each ICA document at designated post offices. "Hanging Fire" was the first piece promised to the ICA's collection 10 years ago and is what Respini calls “a signature" of the collection.Compare this piece’s long history at the ICA to one of the museum’s newest acquisitions: Kara Walker's hand-cut silhouettes, which has.A meditation on the characters and meaning of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” Respini says it’s a commentary on racism and gender discrimination.“For me, this is an incredibly powerful piece. I think that’s what the ICA does best.”. I think it has resonance today as we think about violence, both within the U.S. and outside of the U.S., especially racially fueled violence," she says. Sculpture today is an expansive medium that includes a range of phenomena, forms, techniques, and materials; the category includes discrete objects, installations, staged video displays, and even performance. This display of collection works brings together pieces by a variety of artists who have used commonplace materials in new ways. ICA Members receive 10% off all purchases with the code Members10! Almost a third of the collection is dedicated to sculpture.Respini says the ICA is using this moment to look ahead. Welcome back to the ICA Store! The award-winning store of the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, featuring contemporary art, design objects, art books, jewelry, handmade gifts, and more. Close menu. Included will be works from Mark Bradford, Taylor Davis, Tara Donovan, Kader Attia, Rachel Harrison, Charles LeDray, Roy McMakin, and Josiah McElheny, among others.This display of collection works brings together pieces by a variety of artists who have used commonplace materials in new ways. Your spouse calls it junk. The award-winning store of the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, featuring contemporary art, design objects, art books, jewelry, handmade gifts, and more. Respini tells me the artist created this out of remains from an actual case of suspected arson.“Parker is an artist that takes everyday materials, mundane materials, and transforms them into something incredible and beautiful,” Respini says. All artists come from a lineage of those that came before them and I think a collection can provide that context to contemporary programming.”.For an institution that only recently adopted a collection, the 1966 piece shows the ICA's intent to provide context, giving audiences a lesson in the history of art in the present.So why, in 2006 — after 70 years in existence, 12 different homes ranging from Newbury Street to Lower Allston and countless out-of-the-ordinary contemporary, temporary exhibitions — did the ICA begin a collection?Pieces by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Andy Warhol came and went. ">
It includes the works by Hesse, Walker and Parker — among others by Louise Bourgeois, Marlene Dumas and Lorna Simpson.Also notable is the number of photographs — a little more than one third of the collection — by artists like Boston's Nan Goldin and Rineke Dijkstra.
Respini notes this is mainly due to the 68 pieces in the Barbara Lee Collection of Art by Women. “It’s really important to have a work of this impact and resonance in our museum for people to meditate on, think about, react to.”.As an important conversation starter about culture today, Respini says she thinks of this as an "institutional piece" -- an example of the type of work the ICA wants to collect moving forward.“The subject matter is really poignant, very urgent and very timely. The museum hopes to take on what's called “curatorial-led strategies” to drive its collection moving forward.“We’re broadening the conversation, bringing in artists that are not in the community,” she says. Jul 21, 2014. “No artist works in a vacuum, no artist is a genius thinking genius thoughts alone. It’s the kind of work that sits well within a public institution where larger publics can come and enjoy and read and think on it,” she says.While the majority of the pieces in the collection start in the 1980s, there are notably a few “historically significant” works. “We need to represent artists that aren't collected by people in Boston and by our trustees.”.She says to expect to continue seeing experimental new works in touring shows, but to be on the lookout for large-scale works like video installations that would be too large in a conventional collection.“We’re about to become teenagers, I guess. ICA is working with a commercial service provider to provide collection services at alternate sites. If you’ve been in Boston a while, you may remember the Institute of Contemporary Art (or ICA) when it was nestled next to the firehouse on Boylston Street. We are now accepting online orders and are grateful for your support. Back then, the institute was known for its temporary exhibitions.But 10 years ago the ICA moved to the Seaport District, which allowed the museum to shift gears, show larger-scale exhibitions, and begin acquiring a permanent collection.To celebrate its anniversary, the ICA is showing off nearly half of its now-242-piece collection in an exhibition named “.“What this show does is provide the narrative threads to look back a little bit to understand that artists working today are not working in isolation, but really in conversation with the artists that came before them,” says Eva Respini, the ICA's chief curator.Of the 100 pieces in the show, half are on display at the ICA for the first time. Many employ everyday materials such as pins, glass, and wood, transcending their original function to suggest new material associations.Boston, The Institute of Contemporary Art 25 Harbor Shore Dr. Others use found objects and images to investigate socio-political contexts, creating new narratives for those objects.Yet other artists probe the complex relationship of rendering three-dimensional forms in two-dimensional moving and still image. You can also find our New Catalogue. A list of participating SingPost outlets is available here. If you have any questions, please contact us. There will be a service fee payable to SingPost for the successful collection of each ICA document at designated post offices. "Hanging Fire" was the first piece promised to the ICA's collection 10 years ago and is what Respini calls “a signature" of the collection.Compare this piece’s long history at the ICA to one of the museum’s newest acquisitions: Kara Walker's hand-cut silhouettes, which has.A meditation on the characters and meaning of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” Respini says it’s a commentary on racism and gender discrimination.“For me, this is an incredibly powerful piece. I think that’s what the ICA does best.”. I think it has resonance today as we think about violence, both within the U.S. and outside of the U.S., especially racially fueled violence," she says. Sculpture today is an expansive medium that includes a range of phenomena, forms, techniques, and materials; the category includes discrete objects, installations, staged video displays, and even performance. This display of collection works brings together pieces by a variety of artists who have used commonplace materials in new ways. ICA Members receive 10% off all purchases with the code Members10! Almost a third of the collection is dedicated to sculpture.Respini says the ICA is using this moment to look ahead. Welcome back to the ICA Store! The award-winning store of the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, featuring contemporary art, design objects, art books, jewelry, handmade gifts, and more. Close menu. Included will be works from Mark Bradford, Taylor Davis, Tara Donovan, Kader Attia, Rachel Harrison, Charles LeDray, Roy McMakin, and Josiah McElheny, among others.This display of collection works brings together pieces by a variety of artists who have used commonplace materials in new ways. Your spouse calls it junk. The award-winning store of the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, featuring contemporary art, design objects, art books, jewelry, handmade gifts, and more. Respini tells me the artist created this out of remains from an actual case of suspected arson.“Parker is an artist that takes everyday materials, mundane materials, and transforms them into something incredible and beautiful,” Respini says. All artists come from a lineage of those that came before them and I think a collection can provide that context to contemporary programming.”.For an institution that only recently adopted a collection, the 1966 piece shows the ICA's intent to provide context, giving audiences a lesson in the history of art in the present.So why, in 2006 — after 70 years in existence, 12 different homes ranging from Newbury Street to Lower Allston and countless out-of-the-ordinary contemporary, temporary exhibitions — did the ICA begin a collection?Pieces by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Andy Warhol came and went.