Olivia B. Murphy of ArtSlant meditates on Rodney McMillian’s three overlapping shows on view, including “The Black Show” at ICA: “McMillian’s investigation into racial identity in the US continues with The Black Show at the ICA in Philadelphia (on view through August 14). A Migration Tale (2015) is projected onto a large screen in the…

Thomas Hine of The Philadelphia Inquirer discusses the miniature works that populate Louise Fishman’s show at ICA: “The key works are, as the label puts it, “50 tiny paintings, all Untitled, 2010 and 2014.” Most of these are about three inches square in size, executed with a mixture of materials, including acrylic paint, wood collage,…

As ICA’s exhibition “Barbara Kasten: Stages” opens at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times critic David Pagel takes a closer look at Kasten’s deceptive photographs: “Long before phones became cameras and digital devices became our constant companions, the Chicago artist [Barbara Kasten] began her exploration of the interface between three-dimensional…

In the Summer 2016 issue of X-TRA, Susanna Newbury reflects on the ICA’s 2015 Barbara Kasten retrospective: “[The recent exhibition Barbara Kasten: Stages] takes its strength from an exploration of the world beyond static or fixed images. Photographs extend beyond pictures, beyond prints, to participate as facsimiles in tasks and exchanges. By recursively restaging the…

ICA summer 2016 Programming intern Hannah Fagin is featured in Penn News, where she discusses her lifelong appreciation for art and her burgeoning career path. At the Institute of Contemporary Art, [Hannah] will be interning with its Programming Department, helping to facilitate summer programming events and working on its upcoming Free for All event. “Although…

In a New York Times feature piece on Philadelphia, Nell McShane Wulfhart writes: The Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania (free) is the city’s most prestigious space for modern work, with exhibitions that don’t shy away from provocation. It hosted the first museum solo show for Andy Warhol and early work by…

Harry Swartz-Turfle of Hyperallergic explores Barbara Kasten’s unusual photography techniques in her retrospective exhibition Stages: “In her photographs, Kasten uses lines and angles the way an abstract painter might — as ways to build three-dimensional tension on a two-dimensional surface. In the video projection she uses a corner of a large room as the site…

Randy Kennedy of The New York Times ponders the complexity of happiness in response to Stefan Sagmeister’s The Happy Show: “Happiness is not a problem that Mr. Sagmeister has struggled with much personally. On a scale of 1 to 10, he rates himself a provisional 8. But in 2008, during a yearlong sabbatical in Indonesia…

While Akosua Adoma Owusu’s film Kwaku Ananse is on view at the Institute of Contemporary art, the Ghanaian-American filmmaker discusses the personal nature of this work with Rissa Papillion of Indiewire: “I was making this film to let go of a lot of frustration I had built up around my father’s death, and making this…