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Spice up your Sunday brunch at home with an out of this world DJ set by Saucy Lady. Cook special weekly recipes while getting down to live music from local DJs.
Prep: 5 minutes
Total: 30 minutes
Heat a drizzle of olive oil in a medium pan. Gently fry shallots, stirring frequently, until almost translucent. Add garlic and fry until softened.
Mix paprika, cinnamon/cumin into the shallot and garlic mixture and fry off gently for 1-2 minutes stirring the whole time.
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Spice up your Sunday brunch at home with our new Instagram live series featuring DJ Slick Vick. Cook special weekly recipes while getting down to live music from local DJs.
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Spice up your Mothers Day Sunday brunch with a live DJ set with Claude Money of Soulelujah on Instagram Live. You bring the eggs, we’ll bring the beats.
Heat the olive oil and onion. Saute over medium heat for 5 minutes. Add the dry lentils, water, and diced tomatoes and stir. Cover and allow to simmer for about 10 minutes on low. Remove from heat and stir in salt, pepper, and parsley leaves. Top with your favorite type of egg. We recommend poached.
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Vibe out on Instagram Livestream with the toast of the town, DJ Tyler Kpakpo, who’ll be providing smooth tunes as well as a classic French Toast recipe for Sunday Brunch!
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Join us for a virtual evening honoring Virgil Abloh and Sterling Ruby, two of the most influential artists of our time, each breaking boundaries and redefining the worlds of art, fashion, and design.
Enjoy special performances from 2020 Grammy nominee Tank and the Bangas and experimental pop and performance artist serpentwithfeet. Hear tributes from renowned artist, director, and cinematographer Arthur Jafa and former New York Times chief fashion critic and editor-at-large for New York Magazine’s The Cut Cathy Horyn as well as appearances from our very own ICA teens. And as a special treat, join us for inspiration and conversation with the honorees themselves!
Performance / serpentwithfeet
Welcome / Jill Medvedow, Ellen Matilda Poss Director
Testimonial / Rafael Andrade, ICA Teen Arts Council
Introduction / Nathan DeJesus, ICA Teen Arts Council
Tribute / Cathy Horyn
Intro / Beatrice Jackson, ICA Teen Arts Council
Tribute / Arthur Jafa
Conversation / Virgil Abloh + Sterling Ruby
Thanks / Jill Medvedow, Ellen Matilda Poss Director
Performance / Tank and the Bangas
VIRGIL ABLOH
Artist and designer Virgil Abloh has pioneered a practice that cuts across media and connects visual artists, musicians, graphic designers, fashion designers, and architects. Abloh cultivated an interest in design and music at an early age, finding inspiration in the urban culture of Chicago. While pursuing a master’s degree in architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology, he worked on album covers, concert designs, and merchan- dising. In 2013, he launched his fashion house Off-White, and in 2018 he was named artistic director of Louis Vuitton’s menswear. Next July, the ICA opens Abloh’s first museum exhibition, Virgil Abloh: “Figures of Speech,” organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and set in an immersive space designed by Rem Koolhaas’s renowned architecture firm OMA* AMO. Offering an in-depth look at defining highlights of Abloh’s career, the exhibition includes signature clothing collections, video documentation of iconic fashion shows, and distinctive furniture, graphic design work, and collaborative projects with other artists.
STERLING RUBY
Sterling Ruby is a leading contemporary artist whose work has been presented in solo exhibitions throughout the globe. Since his earliest works, Ruby has investigated the role of the artist as an outsider. Critiquing the struc- tures of modernism and traditional institutions, Ruby ad- dresses the repressed underpinnings of American culture and the coding of power and violence, employing a range of imagery from the American flag to prison architecture and graffiti. Based in Los Angeles, Ruby also privileges craft in his work, informed by his interest in California’s radical ceramics tradition and the quilt-making and other handicrafts of Pennsylvania Dutch country, where he grew up. The artist’s first comprehensive museum survey, co-organized with ICA Miami and on view at the ICA, features more than 70 works that demonstrate the relationship between material transformation in Ruby’s practice and the rapid evolution of contemporary culture, institutions, and labor. Spanning more than two decades, the exhibition features works ranging from his renowned ceramics and paintings to lesser-known drawings and sculptures.
ARTHUR JAFA
Renowned artist, director, and cinematographer Arthur Jafa has captured the history and experience of black Americans from groundbreaking collaborations with Beyoncé and Spike Lee to major museum presentations across the globe. The ICA presented his powerful video installation Love is the Message, The Message is Death in 2018.
CATHY HORYN
Former New York Times chief fashion critic and current editor-at-large for New York Magazine’s The Cut, Cathy Horyn is celebrated for her fearless and provocative reviews and was recognized by the Council of Fashion Designers of America with the prestigious Eugenia Sheppard Award for fashion writing.
SERPENTWITHFEET
Experimental pop and performance artist acclaimed for his voluminous, operatic flourish and electroacoustic milieu.
TANK AND THE BANGAS
Unpredictable 2020 Grammy nominees for Best New Artist full of funk, soul, hip-hop, jazz, and spoken-word freshness.
Jodi and Hal Hess
Kim Sinatra
Bridgitt and Bruce Evans
Charlotte Cramer Wagner and Herbert S. Wagner III
Fotene Demoulas and Tom Coté
Jennifer Epstein and William Keravuori, Bob and Esta Epstein,
Giving |Grousbeck Fazzalari, and Eric and Sarah Svenson
Abigail Johnson and Christopher McKown
Tristin and Martin Mannion
Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick
Ellen Poss
Nancy W. Adams and Scott A. Schoen, Adelle Chang and
Eddie Yoon, Lynn Dale and Frank Wisneski,
and Sinesia and William Karol
Kate and Charles Brizius with Negin and Oliver Ewald
Jim and Audrey Foster
Edward Berman and Kate McDonough
Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser
Karen and Brian Conway
Debi and Mark Greenberg
Barbara and Amos Hostetter
Isabelle and Ian Loring
Kristen and Kent Lucken
Marilyn and Dan O’Connell
David and Leslie Puth with Mark and Marie Schwartz
Tobias and Kristin Welo
Sterling Ruby is organized by Eva Respini, Barbara Lee Chief Curator, ICA/Boston, and Alex Gartenfeld, Artistic Director, ICA, Miami, with Jeffrey De Blois, Assistant Curator and Publications Manager, ICA/Boston.
Sterling Ruby was on view at ICA, Miami November 7, 2019 – February 2, 2020.
Major support for Sterling Ruby is provided by Sprüth Magers, Gagosian, and Xavier Hufkens.
Virgil Abloh: “Figures of Speech” is organized by Michael Darling, James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator of the MCA Chicago. The exhibition is designed by Samir Bantal, Director of AMO, the research and design studio of OMA. The ICA’s presentation is coordinated by Ruth Erickson, Mannion Family Curator.
The exhibition tour is made possible by Kenneth C. Griffin.
Major support for the Boston presentation of Virgil Abloh: “Figures of Speech” is provided by Encore Boston Harbor.
Support is provided by Northern Trust.
Neiman Marcus is the Lead Education Partner of Teen Programs associated with Virgil Abloh: “Figures of Speech.”
2019–2020
Camilo Alvarez*
Charles Brizius
Paul Buttenwieser
Karen Conway
Steven D. Corkin
Robert Davoli
Fotene Demoulas
Mary Schneider Enriquez
Bridgitt Evans
Oliver Ewald
David Feinberg
Gerald Fineberg
James Foster
Erica Gervais Pappendick
Mark Goodman
Vivien Hassenfeld
Hal Hess
Allison Johnson
Charla Jones
Barbara Lee
Manny Lopes
Kent Lucken
Tristin Mannion
Travis McCready
Jill Medvedow*
Dan O’Connell
Ellen M. Poss
David Puth
Charles Rodgers
Mario Russo
Mark Schwartz
Kambiz Shahbazi
Charlotte Wagner
Nicole Zatlyn*
*ex-officio
2019–2020
Clark Bernard
Vin Cipolla
Ann Collier
John DesPrez
William Rawn
David Ross
Karen Rotenberg
Steven Stadler
David Thorne
2019–2020
Camilo Alvarez
Less Arnold
Steven Bercu
Margaret Bergstrand
Jacqueline Bernat
Robert Berstein
Dan Bornstein
Bill Buccella
Robert Burke
Adelle Chang
Peter Cohen
Nicole Conlon
Stephanie Formica Connaughton
Kathryn Conway
Daniela Corte
John Deknatel
Sarah Delaney
Nathalie Ducrest
Jennifer Epstein
Elizabeth Erdreich White
Jesse Feldman
Grace Fey
Ilana Finley
Audrey Foster
John S. Foster
Abigail Goodman
Cynthia Greene
Hilary Grove
Robin Hauck
Gavin Kennedy
Jessica Knez
Barbara Krakow
William D. Krause
Stephen T. Kunian
Robert Kwak
Barbara Lloyd
JR Lowry
Kathleen McDonough
Richard Miner
Dell Mitchell
Marcyliena Morgan
Robert J. Nagle
Sandra Nanberg
Shelly Nemirovsky
Nikki Nudelman
Marlene Persky
Patrick Planeta
Leslie Riedel
William Ruhl
Holly Safford
B.J. Salter
Arnold E. Sapenter
Caroline Taggart
Wiebe Tinga
Cecily Tyler
Russell Williams
Lucy Xie
Nicole Zatlyn
Corey Zehngebot
Preview the hottest looks from Final Touch Boutique and Mas n Motion, creations by Mas Camp costume designer K-Sean Burrell-Nanton, enjoy music by Tempo International Rhythm Section, move along to a dance performance by Smallie Michelle, get the look courtesy of Alexia Jay’s Carnival makeup tutorial, and stir it up with a cocktail lesson by bartender Ebony Jones, Ms. Bougie Bar of Bougie Bartenders. Special appearance by Althea Blackford, BCFW Founder. Plus, don’t miss a live dance afterparty on Zoom with DJ Warlock!
Jack Honey Melon Berry Fizz
By Ms. Bougie Bar of Boston’s Bougie Bartenders
Use Drizly code JACKHONEY and get $5 off your Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey order. It gets sweeter! $1 of your Drizly order supports the museum. Redeem offer
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First Fridays: Caribbean Couture is sponsored by Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey
SUNRAE is an artist, DJ, and producer who is known for his high-energy sets that make others not only want to dance, but also feel empowered to let their light shine and be their true self.
Dance along and blend your SUNRAE-Sunday Juice with these DJ-approved ingredients:
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Mix up your Sunday Brunch at home with a live set featuring two local legends. Shamara AKA DJ WhySham, is a visionary, activist, traveler, sister, god-parent, and “Your Community DJ.” Hip-hop artist Brandie Blaze is know for spreading her message of “trap feminism” through her hard hitting bars and dynamic stage presence. Dance along to these 2019 Boston Music Award nominees while blending their signature juice:
Are there access accommodations that would be useful to help you fully participate in this program (e.g. captioning, ASL, post-program transcript)? Let us know at accessibility@icaboston.org.
Your support helps keeps programs like this – both virtual and in-person – free and accessible in this time of uncertainty. If you are able, please consider becoming a member or making a one-time gift to support the ICA.
Tune in here and on Vimeo for an unforgettable music experience, brought to your living rooms by the ICA in collaboration with local creative collective allyoucaneat. Six of both coasts’ most innovative DJs will be spinning back-to-back sets, with handcrafted visuals to fully feed your senses.
*Set times are EST (Eastern Standard Time)
8 – 9 PM
SILK | Real P + Baby Indiglo (BOS)
9 – 10 PM
allyoucaneat | Mozes +Yung Towfu (BOS)
10 – 11 PM
Don’t Sweat It | Azure & Agana featuring ESTA (LA)
Visuals by Malakhai Pearson (BOS)
Gather ‘round the campfire (or your coffee table) for First Fridays: Contemporary Campout hosted by hilarious Boston-based comedian and resident “camp counselor” Tooky Kavanagh. Mix campy cocktails with State Park’s Evan Harrison, upgrade your mask look with Melissa Thyden of Cosmic Unicornz, listen to campfire poems by Sara Mae, and revel in summer soundtracks by folk musician Anjimile and DJ KNSZWRTH.
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Build in a tin camping mug, add ice, and stir to incorporate ingredients. Garnish with a lime shell.
Gather your supplies ahead of time and follow along at ICA Virtual First Fridays to make your own!
Watch at icaboston.org, Facebook, Twitch, and Vimeo.
Are there access accommodations that would be useful to help you fully participate in this program (e.g. captioning, ASL, post-program transcript)? Let us know at accessibility@icaboston.org. For other questions, please events@icaboston.org.