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Weird but Useful Stuff
Photo: Darcey Sawicz post by Rachel Pastan It’s the change of the seasons here at ICA. Just as you can feel the approach of autumn out on the street in September, here in the museum I feel the end of...
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Cobra on Wood
Cobra on Wood by Nick Payne. Photo: Carina Romano post by Rachel Pastan August is the season of vacations, and a lot of desks are empty here at ICA this month, but downstairs in the galleries people...
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Sleeping Princess
The PMA's Joe Rishel at the mike. Photo: Jill Katz post by Rachel Pastan It’s the night of the fall opening at ICA, and Joe Rishel is standing just inside the downstairs gallery holding a microphone,...
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Mouse Tooth Marks and Other Adventures in Conservation
Photo: J. Katz post by Rachel Pastan One of the things I try to do in this blog is give readers a sense of some of what goes on behind the scenes here at ICA: what the people are doing while the art is...
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Alluding to a Human Presence
Foraging in PMA storage. Photo: I. Schaffner post by Rachel Pastan There’s no point in pretending there isn’t a flurry of excitement here at ICA when a critic from The New York Times comes around. Then...
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Hall of Mirrors
Artist/maker unknown, American, Model of the Fairmount Waterworks, c. 1875, painted and unpainted woods, painted and unpainted metals, mirrored glass, sand, paper-mache, cork and cardboard, 42 3/8...
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Last Call
post by Rachel Pastan “I’m trying to avoid gushing about this film,” Virgil Marti says. He’s talking about Robert Altman’s Nashville (1975), the last in a series of movies being screened in conjunction...
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Look!
post by Rachel Pastan Last week’s ICA lecture, “The Artist as Curator,” was introduced by ICA director Claudia Gould standing behind an unfamiliar podium. “For those of you who are regulars here,” she...
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Elegy for an Exhibition
post by Rachel Pastan Last week Set Pieces closed. For five months the exhibition, curated by artist Virgil Marti from the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, inhabited ICA’s big downstairs...
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Claudia
post by Rachel Pastan “I should make it clear that Claudia did not want this reception,” the Provost says. “But once she understood we were determined, she immediately started suggesting color...
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