This month the ICA Boston turns 90, and a museum-wide celebration, including the exhibition 90 YEARS, gives the public a chance to look back on the wild history of an institution that is well positioned to thrive in the 90 years ahead.
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This month the ICA Boston turns 90, and a museum-wide celebration, including the exhibition 90 YEARS, gives the public a chance to look back on the wild history of an institution that is well positioned to thrive in the 90 years ahead.
This year, the Foster Prize, curated by Tessa Bachi Haas, recognizes four artists whose work addresses our current moment in deeply personal and uniquely technical ways. Through their artistic labor, Alison Croney Moses, Yorgos Efthymiadis, Damien Hoar de Galvan and Sneha Shrestha (aka IMAGINE) remind us of the power of art to bring us together, especially when the world seems to want to tear us apart.
Boston based multidisciplinary artist Yu-Wen Wu charts a course through some of the most complex and important issues facing our city and our planet today. Global migration, assimilation, identity, climate change, female labor and gaps left in the history of the Asian American experience all find elegant purchase in her work. Through drawing, painting, sculpture, video and site specific installation, Wu exposes new possibilities in the relationship between art and science and maps a way through longing toward hope.
It seems spring is here at last. Let the season opener (Red Sox and otherwise) inspire you to get out and explore something new. Here are a few exhibition and reading selections to help you embrace the best of Boston and beyond.
At the Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston, Eva LeWitt’s Untitled (Mesh Circles)’ bold simplicity, grand scale and sultry, unexpected colors announce to the city that beauty is back and everyone is welcome.