Former curatorial intern & student advisory board member Heather Holmes writes about Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme’s The Incidental Insurgents at the Institute of Contemporary Art for The New Inquiry. “The state archive—more or less inaccessible, its mechanisms rendered invisible and steeped in age and history—sees its foil in The Incidental Insurgents, an ongoing multimedia…

Malcolm Burnley of Philadelphia Magazine writes about how Alex Da Corte (Easternsports) “put the city’s art scene on the international map”: “For Da Corte, the decision to stay in Philly was about more than his family ties to South Jersey. ‘It seems that this city allows him to calm down and make the work he…

On Episode 230 of the Modern Art Notes Podcast, Louise Fishman discusses her exhibition Paper Louise Tiny Fishman Rock. Read more.

Pac Pobric of The Art Newspaper interviews Rodney McMillian about his three retrospective exhibitions, including “The Black Show” at the Institute of Contemporary Art. McMillian tells The Art Newspaper: “If there is a through-line in regards to the three shows, it’s about how much you can see history in action. A lot of the work…

Randy Kennedy interviews Rodney McMillian and ICA Chief Curator Anthony Elms in The New York Times: “It is simply a different transformation of what he calls “post-consumer items” to channel a sense of home, love, loss and bodies, particularly black bodies, for which the line between the personal and the political can be razor-thin. ‘There’s…

Olivia B. Murphy interviews Louise Fishman about her body of work and the opening of her exhibition Paper Louise Tiny Fishman Rock at the Institute of Contemporary Art. This concise exhibition offers a glimpse into the important legacy Louise Fishman has built both as an artist and an activist, touching on themes of her own…

Newsworks reviews Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere’s video installation Memory of a Time Lived Twice: “‘Memory of a Time Twice Lived’ by the New York-based artists Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere is both an examination and a reinterpretation of the classic, French art film ‘La Jetée’ (1962) by Chris Marker. The science fiction tale of…

In Artforum’s “500 Words” section, Louise Fishman talks to former ICA Communications Associate Becky Huff Hunter about her show Paper Louise Tiny Fishman Rock: “Scale is as important to me as any other material is—the thickness of the stretchers, how far the painting sits from the wall, in addition to color and surface. It is…

Jessica Lynne interviews artist Tiona McClodden for ART21 Magazine about McClodden’s Affixing Ceremony: Four Movements for Essex, a digitally based project commissioned by the Institute of Contemporary Art. I was approached by the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), in Philadelphia, about doing a World AIDS Day project, an online commission. I almost turned it down,…

Rodney McMillian: The Black Show at the Institute of Contemporary Art is one of Artnet’s “7 Reasons Why Philadelphia Is the Best Place for Your Next Art Getaway.” Los Angeles-based artist Rodney McMillian uses everything from painting and sculpture to video and performance art to dissect class, race, gender and other hot-button social issues in…