ICA will be closed for installation December 24, 2018 through January 31, 2019.
Event

Event

Jan 15, 2019
Curator-Led Tour of Colored People Time: Mundane Futures
Join ICA’s Assistant Curator Meg Onli on a public tour of her exhibition Colored People Time: Mundane Futures. ICA’s Curator-Led Tours offer a unique opportunity to learn about our current exhibitions from the curators themselves. These tours cover the overarching themes and broader contexts of the exhibitions, highlight key works, and give insight into the

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Jan 15, 2019
Curator-Led Tour of Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective
Join ICA’s Daniel and Brett Sundheim Chief Curator, Anthony Elms on a public tour of his exhibition Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective. ICA’s Curator-Led Tours offer a unique opportunity to learn about our current exhibitions from the curators themselves. These tours cover the overarching themes and broader contexts of the exhibitions, highlight key works, and

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Jan 15, 2019
Curator-Led Tour of Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen
Join ICA’s Assistant Curator Meg Onli on a public tour of her exhibition Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen. ICA’s Curator-Led Tours offer a unique opportunity to learn about our current exhibitions from the curators themselves. These tours cover the overarching themes and broader contexts of the exhibitions, highlight key works, and give insight into the

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Jan 3, 2019
Producing the Mapplethorpe Moment: Artistic Expression in Fraught Times
ICA and the Alice Paul Center present “Producing the Mapplethorpe Moment: Artist Expression in Fraught Times.” Commemorating the 30th anniversary of ICA’s exhibition, Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment, this panel discussion will use the conflict surrounding the exhibition as a launching point to consider artist expression in our present moment of heightened reactiveness about the

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Dec 27, 2018
VIP Hours – Visiting Infants & Parents
Visiting infants and parents are VIPs at ICA! Every first Saturday of each month, ICA hosts a family-friendly art experience exclusively for parents, caregivers, and their children ranging from infancy to 24 months old. The museum will be filled with moments of respite for all guests, including stroller tours of our exhibitions, light refreshments, designated

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Dec 27, 2018
Cecilia Vicuña in Conversation with Jena Osman
In conjunction with the exhibition, Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen at the ICA, the artist, poet, filmmaker and activist Cecilia Vicuña is joined by poet and Temple University professor Jena Osman to discuss the intersections between politics, aesthetics, and visual arts in their respective practices. Cecilia Vicuña is an artist, poet, filmmaker and activist whose

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Dec 27, 2018
Screening, Reading, and Conversation with Cecilia Vicuña and Laynie Brown
“Que prosiga,”—That it may go on—responds a passerby to the titular question of Cecilia Vicuña’s 1980 film, ‘What is Poetry to You/¿Qué es para Ud la Poesía?’. Produced with a group of volunteers while the artist was living in exile in Bogotá, Colombia, the film collects responses from beggars, sex workers, and other inhabitants of

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Dec 27, 2018
Reading and Conversation with Professor Saidiya Hartman
The Penn Book Center, the Department of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and ICA present Professor Saidiya Hartman in dialogue with ICA curator Meg Onli on the occasion of the release of Professor Hartman’s new volume, ‘Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval’. Hartman’s work examines the revolution of black intimacy

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Dec 27, 2018
PennDesign Fine Arts Lecture Series: Troy Michie
Troy Michie received a BFA from the University of Texas at El Paso in 2009 and an MFA from the Yale School of Art in Painting/Printmaking in 2011. He has taught printmaking and drawing at Vassar College and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Michie’s work has been exhibited in the United States and

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Dec 21, 2018
Performance: Amirtha Kidambi & Elder Ones
In conjunction with Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective and in partnership with Fire Museum Presents, vocalist and composer Amirtha Kidambi and her quartet, Elder Ones, present a selection of performances influenced by free jazz, modal meditation, atonal expressionism, free improvisation and melodic invention. Amirtha Kidambi is the composer and bandleader of her quartet Elder Ones,

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